Obama’s Strange Prize
Today’s top headline: US President Barack Obama has been awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. Please forgive my cynicism, but aside from pandering to the Muslim world, bowing to the Saudi king, scheming to prevent Israeli families from having babies in Samaria, Judea, and Jerusalem, and appeasing the world’s most notorious dictators, it’s hard to know what Obama’s foreign policy accomplishments are.
I am so impressed with the choice of the Nobel committee that I would like to already send in my suggestions for next year!
I would like to hereby nominate several highly worthy candidates for next year’s Nobel Peace Prize:
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, Caesar Chavez of Venezuela, Fidel Castro of Cuba, and last but not least, Hassan Nasrallah of Hizbullah - As is well known, these are all men of peace, proponents of non-violence and moderation, and according to Obama, leaders who can be reasoned with, if we would only show more understanding for their needs and concerns.
May the best man win!
David Rubin
Shiloh, Israel
Tags: Muslim, Nobel Peace Prize, strange prize
March 20th, 2010 at 8:19 am
Barack Obama’s book, “The Audacity of Hope,” shows a appealing title. It has a taste of bravery mixed confidently. There’s nothing Pollyanna about that. I won’t support everything he tells, but he’s our president, and for me, he creates belief. That will do more for just a nation than any number of backroom deals. Hope gives us energy, and energy sustains us through trying times. Boy, we’ve had them. I’m from West Texas, and I did not vote for Bush. When McCain ran against Obama, I used to be a citizen of Arizona, but I gave audacious hope a chance. The fight for progress and laying the foundations of prosperity is just not over. I have seen the quips of those that don’t think Obama can do it. But step back a moment. Would anyone have most of us fail just to tarnish the star of an incumbent for whom they did not vote? Trying to keep our priorities straight, let’s work together with this president and build our future.
March 21st, 2010 at 4:11 pm
I agree that hope is important, as is optimism. Obama provided an illusory vision of both to many misguided Americans, as well as to Europeans and to the Muslim nations. That is why he received the Noble Peace Prize, based on their hopes of a strange mix of world socialism combined with dangerous appeasement of the Islamic world. This award had absolutely nothing to do with Obama’s achievements and that is why I was so critical of its presentation to one who didn’t deserve it. Appeasement of evil always brings war, not peace, as we saw seventy years ago in Europe, when Neville Chamberlain declared that peace was at hand shortly before the outbreak of WWII.
David Rubin
Shiloh, Israel
May 20th, 2010 at 10:49 pm
Fidel Castro would always be an icon of history evethough he is against the U.S.`-”
May 23rd, 2010 at 3:08 am
Yes, there will always be those who idolize Castro as a revolutionary, but most revolutionaries who oppose the USA are also opposing liberty.
Furthermore, those who are against Israel, as Castro also was and still is, will end up in the dustbin of history.