Hahaha….who ever heard of bashing someone for getting the Nobel Peace Prize? I’ve seen so much stuff online about Obama since this was announced…even “I’ll bet he paid for it!”. Anything to paint this not only as a crime, but as a crime of his own doing!
Suddenly everyone’s the expert on who’s worthy. Did you see any angry retorts a few days ago when three American scientists won the Nobel Prize for Science?
“I can’t believe they won! Dr. Rolf Torgenzeister was robbed!”
“That’s the only study they’ve done! What about Dr. Diddlehopper’s 5 studies?”
“We don’t even know how to use their findings YET! Why are we giving it to them now?”
Nope.
Go ahead and name the last ten winners. I mean…you’re all so invested in who wins, I’m certain you MUST know. Wait…no Googling cheaters. Yes, Nobel uber-fans, I’ll bet you had this announcement date written on your calendars and were awake in the pre-dawn hours so as not to miss it!
The fact is, you know you weren’t, you didn’t even know they were announcing it today and you can’t name the last ten. You probably have never even given the recipient of this award much thought in the past. No, this is just another opportunity for more sour grapes griping. Maybe he’s not your guy or maybe he’s your guy and hasn’t managed to fix your specific issue(s) in the whopping 9 months he’s been in office and so, as if this award has ANY relevance to that, you immediately scrambled up onto your soap boxes, suddenly replete with opinions about the F’NG NOBEL PEACE PRIZE.
How many of you know your presidential history? How many of you that it took Kennedy a full 18 months to turn the economic situation of our country around during his term? How many of you have read about how long it took Reagan to achieve what he did? How many of you read ACTUAL presidential history instead of re-blogging all of this flame-speech stuff without checking the sources and spouting a bunch of negative hate-speech about EVERY F’NG THING that the guys does or in this case….had nothing to do with!!! The guy accepted the prize with humility and vowed to live up to it. What in the HELL would have had him do different? Reject it? Claim it proudly and NOT acknowledge that it seems to be a premature honor? Ridiculous.
There is no way on earth for the guy to win. The constant sour grapes rhetoric coming from a faction of the Right and impatient liberals is an embarrassment to our country. By all means disagree, but good God, disagree respectfully and when, oh I dunno….it’s RELEVANT to your cause?
Listen, I’m completely annoyed with the guy for putting off his meeting with the Dalai Lama, a former Nobel Peace Prize winner, until after his meeting with China and went to the White House website and submitted a letter addressing that fact. So this announcement is completely relevant to my issue with our president and yet my response to hearing that he won today wasn’t:
“What? F him! He canceled his meeting with a Nobel Prize winner! He doesn’t deserve it!”.
No, to the contrary I actually thought:
“Really? Already? Well, good. Hopefully this will give him greater perspective and drive in the area of world peace and perhaps he’ll re-think putting off the Dalai Lama.”
At the end of the day, an American won the Nobel Peace Prize. From the sound of his acceptance, he accepted it humbly and admitted that he feels unworthy and intends to earn the worthiness. Where I come from, this is a positive.
My two cents? Stop mixing politics into EVERYTHING, stop making America look like a nation of douche bags who can’t unite even on something like THIS and have some F’ng pride.
I AGREE WITH YOU 100%!! How embarrassing that people can be so utterly retarded. Our president won the Nobel Peace Prize! That would make me proud even if I didn’t vote for him.
Well-stated as usual, my friend! *HUGS* to you!