Comments on: Hope is Cheap

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By: pat n.

pat n. — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:04:26 +0000

look. what are we to do. as people we’ve tried
to get it over to everyone that understanding
and truth is’nt some void but that we are all
brother and sisters wading through deep/dark
waters.that only hope is our selfelves and hope
is shalllow.can we see others as those to emprace and seek to see all with aceptance.
The alteranTIVE is total destruction with nouthing left.
(No Hope,No _Place. What can I say?If You head one thing to say?

By: Naomi

Naomi — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:37:45 +0000

I’ll agree with you Sharon (and yes, I’m one of those “outsiders” who really does appreciate that Obama is NOT George W.).

I do admire Obama for the work he is doing – he is at the start of a very long journey to change the way America sees the rest of the world, and the way the rest of the world sees America. It isn’t going to be easy, and he may not see the results while he is still in office (maybe even in his lifetime). People outside America are watching closely to see if he will be allowed to make the changes that are so desperately needed.

But it seems as though this award has been given on the basis of good intentions – and that does neither Obama nor the Nobel Peace Prize justice.

Talk is wonderful – but when it comes to something like a Nobel Prize, well, you would think that results carried a bit more weight, don’t you think?

By: Christy O

Christy O — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:24:57 +0000

I think the rabid Obama supporters are funny. Where did Sharon say she hated Obama? Where did she say she would have preferred McCain/Palin? Why is it everytime someone says they don’t agree with a policy of Obama’s, they suddenly hate him and love Bush? I don’t even agree with everything my husband does or says, why should I be expected to agree with everything a president does or says? Get a grip people!

By: Bettina

Bettina — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:26:17 +0000

When I heard first that Obama got the nobel prize / peace I thougt:
What a slap in the face of all these people that are really working hard for a little bit of peace on this earth!(let’s say streetworkers in brasilian slums etc.).

Bettina from Germany

By: Sara: in northern rural Alabama

Sara: in northern rural Alabama — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:36:39 +0000

oh what a box of _____ has been opened here.

this wonderful oasis of a place to come together to attempt to DO SOMETHING about our dire predicament …. (PO, CC, etc)

and now look

such bickering amongst us

can we go back to
DOING SOMETHING now.

dayenu!

By: Julien Peter Benney

Julien Peter Benney — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:43:21 +0000

Hello,

for all those who complain about Henry Kissinger being given the prize, you are right that it is enough reason to be suspicious, especially if you read a quite well-known (well, among people of your political stripe) article by John Lukács unfavourably comparing Kissinger to Dorothy Day, the famed Catholic pacifist without whom the opposition to the Vietnam War would most likely never have threatened the US.

The article can be read at “http://www.sparrowrose.com/homework/pol_econ_week_four.htm” or “http://www.cathinfo.com/index.php?a=topic&t=8694″.

However, if Kissinger can quite legitimately be said to have usurped the Peace Prize from Dorothy Day (who was nominated but – believe it or not – considered too radically pacifist for the judges) it is hard to see who Obama could have usurped. At this moment at least I wonder why they do not consider failing to award the prize at all – it was far from uncommon before 1973.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:53:38 +0000

One of the things that I think is most telling about this is how reductionist the analysis gets – maybe mine too, but think about it. Now saying “you don’t deserve the nobel peace prize” has become an insult – imagine saying that to someone when you get mad “You don’t even deserve the nobel peace prize!” I mean c’mon – saying Obama doesn’t deserve NPP is hardly like saying he’s bad, or that we’d prefer McCain or that he’s even not a good man. But that’s the nature of backhanded compliments.

Sharon

By: Lauren

Lauren — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 08:12:26 +0000

Here is an interesting blog entry:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/10/9/791729/-For-a-minute-I-forgot-how-important-the-United-States-is