Posted on 09/16/2013 1:28:37 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Last Friday, just as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov were working out the final details of an agreement on the Syrian crisis, the Russian media went into high gear starting its drive for awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
PravdaTV, a media outlet friendly to the Kremlin, produced and distributed a video clip opening with a scene of Putin tenderly caring for a Siberian tiger cub while the narrator says, “What does a peace prize mean, if not the prevention of war.” Scenes of Putin on location in the Middle East follow. A rhetorical question with a bit of an edge ends the video: “We must remember that in 2009 Barack Obama got the prize, in 1990, Gorbachev, so why not Putin?”
As the Kremlin-driven lobbying effort and petition drive to award Putin the prize heats up, my advice to the Nobel Committee is to remember a line from Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales”: “If gold rusts, what shall iron do?”
However, we can both retain our reservations about Putin’s nomination for the Nobel Prize and also admit that Putin’s on a roll.
The week before last, he upstaged President Obama at the St. Petersburg G20 summit. Last week, he stole a throw-away idea Kerry had half-heartedly tossed about in London and turned it into a diplomatic breakthrough that has averted what was potentially the most dangerous confrontation between the United States and Russia since the Cuban Missile Crisis 51 years ago.
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Give him two..............
The Nobel “peace” prize is worth a dollar and eleventy-nineteen cents. I’d say Putin is as deserving as anyone else.
I agree. Putin the Peacemaker, with a “lift” from Kerry.
I hear Putin is really good at billiards. He’s certainly great at ‘Snooker’............
Putin actually had to do something to earn this prize, even if all he did was snooker Zer0. OTOH, all Zer0 had to do to get it was elected.
Pshht.
When wussies like Obama and Jimmy Carter are handed out Nobel Prizes - I could easily see Putin declining such an “award”.
But...but...but...it’s Mrs. Slick Willie’s turn to get one.
Why not. Dilutes the value of the Nobel prize, and makes Obama look like a fool. Obvious Win-Win.
It would certainly solve the sharing of the new oil field.
Could be a tough one - the Nobel committee has such high standards.
After 2009’s award to feckless, clueless, history less, accomplishmentless Obama, the value of the modern Peace Prize equates to that from a box of CrackerJacks and less filling on top of it!
make Obuma give putin his peace prize. Just erase obama and put his in.
As much as I loathe Obama, I can’t root for Putin.
Our Country and for which it stands is more important than this 8 year aberration.
Who’s rooting? But it’s certainly ironic to see a Russian eating the Marxist’s lunch.
Putin can put it next to his Super Bowl ring.
Awww let Obama keep it. By playing the fool he maneuvered Putin into being peaceful.
We should send that photo to Alex Jones. I’ll bet Putin was blackmaled to help Obama out of the corner in return that the photo would be destroyed!
Well, we’re really rooting for good sense and truth. That’s a winner anywhere. If Hitler ever did something good it would remain something good.
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