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Not really hacker news in any case. It looks like politics and current events.
A bunch of the nobel prize winners have been posted here over the past few days. True, this one is more politically charged, but it seems to fit within that trend.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
A bunch of the nobel prize winners have been posted here over the past few days. True, this one is more politically charged, but it seems to fit within that trend.
You can bet that the other threads had no mention of Glen Beck.
So, basically he gets an award for not being George Bush?
"I want to thank first and foremost my predecessor, George W. Bush, without whose service as a stark contrast, I could not have won this prize (nor, perhaps, the presidency)"
Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can bet that the other threads had no mention of Glen Beck.
Fair enough, I'm defending the posting, not the comments.
Pres. Obama pushed for diplomacy with enemies when it was politically risky for him. I think this was both right and courageous. But they should have waited till his diplomatic efforts bore some fruit to give him a Nobel. Awarding it now shows remarkable lack of faith in him AND diplomacy. Way to jump the shark, Nobel peace prize committee!
I'm not sure its a club the President wants to join, at least not this early in a first term.
Pres. Obama pushed for diplomacy with enemies when it was politically risky for him. I think this was both right and courageous. But they should have waited till his diplomatic efforts bore some fruit to give him a Nobel. Awarding it now shows remarkable lack of faith in him AND diplomacy. Way to jump the shark, Nobel peace prize committee!
Was it really politically risky? Everyone I know didn't like the Bush administration foreign policy. The only places he'd alienate by his policy were places that were going against anyways, but he picked up a lot of swing voters who care about America's international reputation.
Pres. Obama pushed for diplomacy with enemies when it was politically risky for him. I think this was both right and courageous. But they should have waited till his diplomatic efforts bore some fruit to give him a Nobel. Awarding it now shows remarkable lack of faith in him AND diplomacy. Way to jump the shark, Nobel peace prize committee!
They jumped the shark when they gave the prize to a boastfully-amoral purveyor of warmongering realpolitik in 1973, an unrepentant terrorist in 1994, an ineffective cronyist international kleptocrat in 2001, a self-aggrandizing bigoted apologist for dictators in 2002, and a scientifically-illiterate shill in 2007. Jumping the shark is what they do. I'm not sure its a club the President wants to join, at least not thi…