Howard Zinn: Nobel Prize for Promises?
“I was dismayed when I heard Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize. A shock, really, to think that a president carrying on wars in two countries and launching military action in a third country (Pakistan), would be given a peace prize. But then I recalled that Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Kissinger had all received Nobel Peace Prizes. The Nobel Committee is famous for its superficial estimates and for its susceptibility to rhetoric and empty gestures, while ignoring blatant violations of world peace…”
October 12th, 2009 at 9:49 am
Wow…you need to get a job working for Rush’s staff. I am appalled that you would post this. He didn’t seek it out (The NPP) and he didn’t start these goddamn wars. He didn’t tank the economy. We (the collective We) allowed it to happen. Democrats, Republicans, Independents, we are all culpable for allowing this to happen.
He is being crucified in ways Bush never had to deal with and Bush was a draft dodging cokehead with no morals and even less character…
October 12th, 2009 at 10:11 am
You obviously didn’t read Zinn’s article, which was more about the politicization of the Peace Prize than about Obama.
And, really? Comparing me to Rush Limbaugh? I’m not a birther or a deather or any of the other cute names they’ve come up with for the right-wing nutcase fringe. But I’m not going to spare Obama criticism just because he’s black, just like I didn’t spare Bill Clinton just because he was the first Democratic president in 12 years…