Comments on: Leader of the empire wins a Nobel http://sundial.csun.edu/2009/10/leader-of-the-empire-wins-a-nobel/ Breaking CSUN news and information. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:52:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: David http://sundial.csun.edu/2009/10/leader-of-the-empire-wins-a-nobel/comment-page-1/#comment-15534 David Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:50:40 +0000 http://sundial.csun.edu/?p=16520#comment-15534 Mr. Glatzer: It's pretty apparent that you're a peacenik who'll never give the U.S. credit for the good done and the lives saved worldwide under the leadership of both Democratic and Republican presidents. You seem to believe that there's no price paid by never using military force. If the Nobel Peace Prize had any meaning--the Prize was awarded once to Paletinian terrorist leader Yassar Arafat--the U.S. armed forces would deserve to be awarded it. Since you seem to lack palatable sources that oppose your Leftist idology, here's some "legitimate substantive criticism" regarding the Peace Prize issue from leading conservative intellectual Charles Krauthammer, in an interview with Germany's Der Spiegel. The complete interview, which address Obama and his presidency, is available here: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,656501,00.html SPIEGEL: Mr. Krauthammer, did the Nobel Commitee in Oslo honor or doom the Obama presidency by awarding him the Peace Prize? Charles Krauthammer: It is so comical. Absurd. Any prize that goes to Kellogg and Briand, Le Duc Tho and Arafat, and Rigoberta Menchú, and ends up with Obama, tells you all you need to know. For Obama it's not very good because it reaffirms the stereotypes about him as the empty celebrity. SPIEGEL: Why does it? Krauthammer: He is a man of perpetual promise. There used to be a cruel joke that said Brazil is the country of the future, and always will be; Obama is the Brazil of today's politicians. He has obviously achieved nothing. And in the American context, to be the hero of five Norwegian leftists, is not exactly politically positive. SPIEGEL: It hardly makes sense to blame him for losing the Olympic bid in one week, and then for winning the Nobel Prize the next. Krauthammer: He should have simply said: "This is very nice, I appreciate the gesture, but I haven't achieved what I want to achieve." But he is not the kind of man that does that. SPIEGEL: Should he have turned down the prize? Krauthammer: He would never turn that down. The presidency is all about him. Just think about the speech he gave in Berlin. There is something so preposterous about a presidential candidate speaking in Berlin. And it was replete with all these universalist clichés, which is basically what he's been giving us for nine months. Mr. Glatzer: It’s pretty apparent that you’re a peacenik who’ll never give the U.S. credit for the good done and the lives saved worldwide under the leadership of both Democratic and Republican presidents. You seem to believe that there’s no price paid by never using military force. If the Nobel Peace Prize had any meaning–the Prize was awarded once to Paletinian terrorist leader Yassar Arafat–the U.S. armed forces would deserve to be awarded it.

Since you seem to lack palatable sources that oppose your Leftist idology, here’s some “legitimate substantive criticism” regarding the Peace Prize issue from leading conservative intellectual Charles Krauthammer, in an interview with Germany’s Der Spiegel. The complete interview, which address Obama and his presidency, is available here: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,656501,00.html

SPIEGEL: Mr. Krauthammer, did the Nobel Commitee in Oslo honor or doom the Obama presidency by awarding him the Peace Prize?

Charles Krauthammer: It is so comical. Absurd. Any prize that goes to Kellogg and Briand, Le Duc Tho and Arafat, and Rigoberta Menchú, and ends up with Obama, tells you all you need to know. For Obama it’s not very good because it reaffirms the stereotypes about him as the empty celebrity.

SPIEGEL: Why does it?

Krauthammer: He is a man of perpetual promise. There used to be a cruel joke that said Brazil is the country of the future, and always will be; Obama is the Brazil of today’s politicians. He has obviously achieved nothing. And in the American context, to be the hero of five Norwegian leftists, is not exactly politically positive.

SPIEGEL: It hardly makes sense to blame him for losing the Olympic bid in one week, and then for winning the Nobel Prize the next.

Krauthammer: He should have simply said: “This is very nice, I appreciate the gesture, but I haven’t achieved what I want to achieve.” But he is not the kind of man that does that.

SPIEGEL: Should he have turned down the prize?

Krauthammer: He would never turn that down. The presidency is all about him. Just think about the speech he gave in Berlin. There is something so preposterous about a presidential candidate speaking in Berlin. And it was replete with all these universalist clichés, which is basically what he’s been giving us for nine months.

]]> By: britney http://sundial.csun.edu/2009/10/leader-of-the-empire-wins-a-nobel/comment-page-1/#comment-15494 britney Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:35:32 +0000 http://sundial.csun.edu/?p=16520#comment-15494 Obama sucks! I mean the world is still corrupt! Did we forget that we already had a war with Afghanistan!!! Can the U.S. just keep to itself!! I love your article!!! Obama sucks! I mean the world is still corrupt! Did we forget that we already had a war with Afghanistan!!! Can the U.S. just keep to itself!! I love your article!!!

]]> By: Alex http://sundial.csun.edu/2009/10/leader-of-the-empire-wins-a-nobel/comment-page-1/#comment-15492 Alex Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:14:48 +0000 http://sundial.csun.edu/?p=16520#comment-15492 I completely agree. Nothing has changed since the Bush Adminstration, its the same policies with a new face. We have to stop making excuses for our leaders and hanging on to delusions that "their intentions are good" and hold them accountable because their actions reveal their true "intentions". Great article! You really cut through the lies and B.S we see on television and and hit the nail on the head. I completely agree. Nothing has changed since the Bush Adminstration, its the same policies with a new face. We have to stop making excuses for our leaders and hanging on to delusions that “their intentions are good” and hold them accountable because their actions reveal their true “intentions”. Great article! You really cut through the lies and B.S we see on television and and hit the nail on the head.

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