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  • Obama's Nobel prize came with little merit

    10/21/2009 8:51:25 AM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 7 replies · 637+ views
    The Purdue Exponent ^ | October 21, 2009 | Editorial Board
    President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize, and we are having a difficult time figuring out why. The prize committee cited its decision on this: “For his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.” Really? We missed this. Obama seemed surprised by this announcement and said winning the prize was a “call to action.” The nominations for the prize took place in February, which was only a couple months after Obama’s inspirational and change-promising “Yes We Can” campaign. In fact, he is the first U.S. president to be awarded the prize in his first term. Obama...
  • A Decadent Nobel: A Prize For Soft Moralism.

    10/14/2009 6:29:18 PM PDT · by Steelfish · 6 replies · 499+ views
    Wall St. Journal ^ | October 14th 2009
    A Decadent Nobel A prize for soft moralism. By DANIEL HENNINGER So Donald Rumsfeld was right about Old Europe. The Norwegian Nobel Committee has taken it in the neck for awarding this year's Peace Prize to a nine-month old American presidency. There's been much mockery of pencil-necked Norwegian academics in faraway Oslo. This is unfair. The committee said it chose Barack Obama for his "vision of . . . a world without nuclear weapons" and for "meeting the great climatic challenges the world is confronting." I'd say that completes the argument over old and new Europe. This is a Nobel...