Putin Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Mar 5, 2014 16:00:57 #
Los-Angeles-Shooter
Loc: Los Angeles
Hey, why not? Some years ago the world's leading terrorist, Yassir Arafat was not only nominated but received the peace prize. This was some years before Arafat, who was gay, sickened and died from AIDS. And the Leftist Nobel committee gave Obama a prize even though admittedly he hadn't accomplished anything at the time. [The award was considered a slap in the face to the USA]
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Yes, my friends. The same guy who just recently sent troops into a sovereign nation -- a decision he might later come to regret, by the way -- is a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize:
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been nominated for the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize - but the conflict in Ukraine is also likely to be on the Nobel committee's agenda.
A record 278 candidates, including 47 organizations, received nominations for the 2014 prize, said the Norwegian Nobel Institute's director, Geir Lundestad.
Committee members who met on Tuesday added their own proposals with a focus on recent turmoil around the globe.
Surely many other candidates, if not most, are much more deserving:
Pope Francis and former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden also received nominations as well as Putin.
Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai, shot in the head by the Taliban for advocating girls' right to education, is also thought to be among the candidates, as are several Russian dissidents who have spoken out for human rights.
Conflicts between protesters and the governments of Thailand and Venezuela are also expected to be debated by the committee.
"We are getting an increasing number of nominations from people in countries that have never submitted nominations before," Lundestad said.
Presumably most Nobel Peace Prize recipients spend their lives advancing the cause of social justice, in some way, through peaceful and nonviolent means. Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela, of course, are two of the awards most famous recipients, who lived up to that standard. Imagine, though, if they had to share that award with President Putin, of all people? That strikes me as rather unjust.
That being said, the number of people eligible to nominate candidates is virtually limitless. Thus, one wonders if in a stunning act of hubris, President Putin merely flexed his muscles and ordered one of his henchmen to put his name forward:
Although nominations are kept secret for 50 years, thousands of people around the world are eligible to propose candidates, including any member of any national assembly, and many make their picks public.
The committee narrowed its list to between 25 and 40 on Tuesday and it will cut its list to about a dozen by the end of April.
Will more belligerence from Moscow affect the committees decision? Lets hope so.
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Yes, my friends. The same guy who just recently sent troops into a sovereign nation -- a decision he might later come to regret, by the way -- is a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize:
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been nominated for the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize - but the conflict in Ukraine is also likely to be on the Nobel committee's agenda.
A record 278 candidates, including 47 organizations, received nominations for the 2014 prize, said the Norwegian Nobel Institute's director, Geir Lundestad.
Committee members who met on Tuesday added their own proposals with a focus on recent turmoil around the globe.
Surely many other candidates, if not most, are much more deserving:
Pope Francis and former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden also received nominations as well as Putin.
Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai, shot in the head by the Taliban for advocating girls' right to education, is also thought to be among the candidates, as are several Russian dissidents who have spoken out for human rights.
Conflicts between protesters and the governments of Thailand and Venezuela are also expected to be debated by the committee.
"We are getting an increasing number of nominations from people in countries that have never submitted nominations before," Lundestad said.
Presumably most Nobel Peace Prize recipients spend their lives advancing the cause of social justice, in some way, through peaceful and nonviolent means. Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela, of course, are two of the awards most famous recipients, who lived up to that standard. Imagine, though, if they had to share that award with President Putin, of all people? That strikes me as rather unjust.
That being said, the number of people eligible to nominate candidates is virtually limitless. Thus, one wonders if in a stunning act of hubris, President Putin merely flexed his muscles and ordered one of his henchmen to put his name forward:
Although nominations are kept secret for 50 years, thousands of people around the world are eligible to propose candidates, including any member of any national assembly, and many make their picks public.
The committee narrowed its list to between 25 and 40 on Tuesday and it will cut its list to about a dozen by the end of April.
Will more belligerence from Moscow affect the committees decision? Lets hope so.
Mar 5, 2014 16:32:51 #
John Kerry, who voted for George W. Bushs Iraq invasion in 2003 and wanted to bomb Syria last year and President Obama, who crossed borders regularly to kill enemies are both outraged that Russia has intervened in the Ukraine? We look like buttholes when John Kerry comes out and says such sophmoric claptrap as It is not appropriate to invade a country at the end of a barrel of a gun to dictate what you are trying to achieve. That is not Twenty-first Century, G-8, major-nation behavior.
No wonder the entire world and Putin are laughing at us. With such obvious hypocritical foreign policy as this I am laughing myself only not as hard since I love my country, but this current administration is a complete joke much more so than the Nobel Committee. Especially when it comes out to show that Putin's actions prevented a civil war that would have taken many lives in vain. What would we have done in the same situation? Kerry sounds like he couldn't get by the first question on "Am I Smarter Than a Fifth Grader". Very sad that we as a great country have been reduced to this.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Nobel Committee selected John Kerry this time around.
No wonder the entire world and Putin are laughing at us. With such obvious hypocritical foreign policy as this I am laughing myself only not as hard since I love my country, but this current administration is a complete joke much more so than the Nobel Committee. Especially when it comes out to show that Putin's actions prevented a civil war that would have taken many lives in vain. What would we have done in the same situation? Kerry sounds like he couldn't get by the first question on "Am I Smarter Than a Fifth Grader". Very sad that we as a great country have been reduced to this.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Nobel Committee selected John Kerry this time around.
Mar 5, 2014 17:43:33 #
The Peace Prize isn't worth the paper it's printed on. the medal itself is a waste of material and the million dollars is another waste. It certainly isn't what it used to be.
Mar 5, 2014 23:16:29 #
Los-Angeles-Shooter
Loc: Los Angeles
tramsey wrote:
The Peace Prize isn't worth the paper it's printed on. the medal itself is a waste of material and the million dollars is another waste. It certainly isn't what it used to be.
The "Peace Prize" and other aspects of the Nobel Prizes are Leftist, dishonest, politicized garbage. I do not know if the same dishonesty has spread to the other awards for things like scientific achievements.
Mar 6, 2014 11:03:21 #
So what did the Nobel Committee think would happen when they lowered the bar to give Barry the award? Now everyone looks at it and thinks "well my candidate has done way more for peace than that clown". I think Soros or someone like him must have paid or threatened some people to make that joke happen.
Mar 6, 2014 13:23:44 #
Los-Angeles-Shooter
Loc: Los Angeles
Heck, it was lowered into the gutter even before 'bama got the award. The world's leading terrorist, Yassir Arafat, received a Nobel Peace Prize. I guess the award was for his work in arranging the murder and crippling of thousands of people.
DISCLAIMER: I came within inches of being killed or injured by Arafat's terrorists and was saved only by a quirk of timing and luck.
DISCLAIMER: I came within inches of being killed or injured by Arafat's terrorists and was saved only by a quirk of timing and luck.
Mar 6, 2014 20:08:12 #
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