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Who cares? There is a lot of people who can nominate someone for the Nobel Peace Prize. Fidel Castro has even been nominated.
Deservedly so.
"Castro, on the other hand, was convinced that an invasion of Cuba was soon at hand, and on October 26, he sent a telegram to Khrushchev that appeared to call for a pre-emptive nuclear strike on the USA." - Wikipedia, on the Cuban Missile Crisis
Who cares? There is a lot of people who can nominate someone for the Nobel Peace Prize. Fidel Castro has even been nominated.
Deservedly so.
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Anyone who gets in the way of government abuses is promoting peace in my opinion . In Snowden's case, he's released information about programs that are specifically abusing the privacy of the world's population . One hopes that such a release serves as an impetus to curb or prevent it in the future. I think that at least fits my criteria.
I'm sorry, I still don't see the link between "[curbing] government abuses" and "promoting peace". What is the link?
Is that good enough reason for you? How about this: he promoted the truth, because otherwise had he not done it, we could have ended in a North Korea type dictatorship.
Hats off to Mr. Snowden.
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I fail to see how what Snowden has done has promoted world peace. The Nobel Peace prize is not (recent awardees notwithstanding) a we-like-you prize. It's supposed to be about world peace , and I just don't see how Snowden has advanced that particular goal. Or am I just dense?
Weakening the global hegemon is certainly a contribution to world peace.
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Obama was awarded the Peace Prize prematurely. I've yet to see something he's done to deserve it, despite voting for him the first time.
That may be so, but let's keep in mind that there is no reason to criticize the President for being undeserving of the prize. It's not like he awarded it to himself.
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Deservedly so.
Would you like to elaborate? "Castro, on the other hand, was convinced that an invasion of Cuba was soon at hand, and on October 26, he sent a telegram to Khrushchev that appeared to call for a pre-emptive nuclear strike on the USA." - Wikipedia, on the Cuban Missile Crisis
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Obama was awarded the Peace Prize prematurely. I've yet to see something he's done to deserve it, despite voting for him the first time.
That may be so, but let's keep in mind that there is no reason to criticize the President for being undeserving of the prize. It's not like he awarded it to himself.
the irony of a whistleblower trying to escape from the nobel-prize winning president of the United States being nominated for the nobel prize is, well pricelss.
Obama was awarded the Peace Prize prematurely. I've yet to see something he's done to deserve it, despite voting for him the first time.
still it remains that Obama is fundamentally pragmatic, for better or worse in any given issue.
[1] good report here: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/rachel-maddow/46790266#46790266
[2] http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/inside-obamas-war-...
the irony of a whistleblower trying to escape from the nobel-prize winning president of the United States being nominated for the nobel prize is, well pricelss.
I don't really understand the nobel peace prize, or specifically why Obama was awarded it. I understand being the first black president of the United States is a big deal, but did he personally do anything to promote peace? Or does being black in the white house somehow lower racism, hence promoting world peace?
the irony of a whistleblower trying to escape from the nobel-prize winning president of the United States being nominated for the nobel prize is, well pricelss.
I don't really understand the nobel peace prize, or specifically why Obama was awarded it. I understand being the first black president of the United States is a big deal, but did he personally do anything to promote peace? Or does being black in the white house somehow lower racism, hence promoting world peace?
The idea was that accepting the peace prize would have led Obama to see himself as a Nobel peace prize winner, and thus as someone promoting peace, and that he thus would subconsciously actually try to promote peace to avoid the cognitive dissonance.
It didn't work as well as it could, but maybe it worked to some extent.
