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Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 22, 2009
Transcript:
Aid: Sir, just to put your win in perspective... remember that Henry Kissinger also won the Nobel Peace Prize... even though 21,000 Americans and countless Vietnamese died on his watch, during which we also invaded Cambodia. Obama: So my win could've been worse. Aid: Yes, sir. It could've been an obscenity.
rayannina over 15 years ago
Yasser Arafat won too.
yyyguy over 15 years ago
several other winners had been called terrorists at some point in their lives prior to winning the award.
Bargrove over 15 years ago
They blew it earlier, but they are back on track now.
farren over 15 years ago
Good thing you donât have any voice in awarding the Peace Prize then. More to the point, nor does ANYONE else. Nobel committees, from the Chemistry prizes to the Literature prizes, and especially the Peace Prize, have always been on their own, and controversy has often erupted.
Ravenswing over 15 years ago
Eh, Iâm with Baslim; Iâm an Obama backer, no error, and I think the only decent thing any Republican can do after the previous eight years is sit down, shut up, and let us try to clean up their mess. But I canât figure a thing Obama did to merit this other than Not Be Bush. Well, heck, Iâm not either. Can I book my trip to Stockholm next year?
pbarnrob over 15 years ago
And if you dig a little deeper into Woody Wilson, heâs got some scary stuff under the rugâŠ
OshkoshJohn over 15 years ago
That President Obama is not President George W. Bush is apparently enough for the Nobel Committee. It works for me!
3hourtour Premium Member over 15 years ago
âŠactually Obama deserves the award..he has offered a olive branch to our enemies,a hand to our friendsâŠshowed that there are some lines a freedom loving people should and will not cross to maintain their freedoms:even at the cost of their own safety..he has told the people of not only America ,but the world that they have to be part of the solution..he has tried working in a bipartisan way.President Obama is acting like the âLEADERâ of the free world ..whom else is better deserving ?The press let the Fox run the henhouse on this one..shame on them..
lewisbower over 15 years ago
Yank the rug on Eastern Europe. Desert our biggest mid-east ally Israel. Back down on the cruelest nation, N, Korea Who did he give hope to?
Potrzebie over 15 years ago
The best battle is the one that is not fought.
Tsun Tzu.
Nemesys over 15 years ago
I think weâre missing the point. Thereâs a general assumption that the Nobel Peace Prize stands for something particular, but winning it doesnât rest upon any particular standardized criteria. Pleasing the whims of the prize committee are the only qualifications nessisary. The award means nothing more than that, and winning it has little significance.
Dr. Nobel created the award as a sort of personal penance for inventing explosives used in wars. I wonder what heâd think of how his name - and his money - are being used?
babka Premium Member over 15 years ago
amen, GT - tell it!
puddleglum1066 over 15 years ago
What Wilson, Arafat, Kissinger and Obama all have in common is that theyâve sought peace through the use of gunpowder and explosivesâgood old Alâs contribution to Western society. Maybe thatâs the criterionâŠ
longtimecomicsfan over 15 years ago
So Georgia was going to be invited to join NATO. And we were going to put âdefensiveâ missiles in Georgia all along the Russian border. Except that Russia really objected to missiles on their border. So if Georgia was a NATO ally, we would have been OBLIGATED to send in troops to help defend if Russia (or anybody else) invaded. Except, Russia was ALREADY invading. Oops.
Howâs that for a bright idea? Sorry, but if the President hadnât done anything else, un-inviting ourselves from a war in Russia deserves the Nobel.
AKHenderson Premium Member over 15 years ago
One thing Iâve always wonderedâŠKissinger is supposed to be an expert on diplomacy. When did he succeed at it? I mean, for our side? (His Nobel was won for sealing the other sideâs victory; a successful diplomat furthers the interests of who heâs working for, not his employerâs enemies.)
ringokarma over 15 years ago
Watch, my friends. Obama will leave the White House with his Swedish trinket. Shortly after that weâll get nuked and wonder why the hell we didnât listen to Dub-ya. Do you honestly think Iran would be shaking a nuclear stick at us if a Republican were in office? Wake up. You canât make peace with people who have declared war on you and vowed to wipe you off the face of the Earth. Obama was good at only one thing, getting elected.
donhef over 15 years ago
So then, using the same criteria, shouldnât Bubba Clinton have gotten the prize for all the work he did to try an bring âFreedomâ to the people of Mogadishu? Oh, Iâm sorry, he used the US Army, Marines and Delta Force to try and get the troublemakers out, and they had to do it with in a particular timeframe.
And where did we come out? On the short end of the stick as usual with a âRat as the C-in-C.
How about the all the the Natural Disasters around the World that happened on Wâs watch, where the US was the only people who came to aid the âPoor, Unfortunateâ peoples who got the worst of it? And donât even go the way of NOLA and Katrina. That should have been taken care of in the beginning of the Local and State Government, before going to look for a handout from the rest of the US. And when the Feds did come in, all they got was crapped onâŠâŠ.
Keep telling me why itâs such a great thing BHO got this so called âPeace Prizeâ. Not worth the metal the medal is made ofâŠ.
RenoMike over 15 years ago
NOTICE TO ALL RIGHT-WING DELUSIONALS: Wasting time parroting RNC talking points in Comments columns such as this is will neither, a) change any sane readerâs mind, nor, b) get your dumbass political hacks back into power.
No, the only way to win it is with votes. And the only way to win votes is like Obama did, by displaying intelligence. And so far, the putzes you sent to Washington have proven themselves to be slightly less intelligent than drool.
And so is your futile ranting in columns such as this. Youâre welcome.
WaitingMan over 15 years ago
Someone actually worries about us being nuked by Iran?!?! Incredibly stupid. The day Iran even comes close to having a nuclear weapon, Israel turns it into a parking lot.
whiteaj over 15 years ago
Obamaâs win WAS an obscenity.
drtom01 over 15 years ago
Just fly your Klan flag at half mast and get over it
Oceanie over 15 years ago
Itâs not his fault that he won it, how can you fault the man? He didnât ask for it and seemed nonplused about the award. Support him or no, heâs got class and didnât act like some boob about it. And yeah, it says a lot about Dub that just not being him and trying to lead in a more positive way is enough, maybe anyone who was the next pres wouldâve been up for it, who knows? But maybe we should give him the benefit of the doubt. I think heâs doing well in trying circumstances.
Dagwuddy over 15 years ago
This award was simply an attempt to influence Obama and U.S. policy. What next, awarding Olympic gold medals based on the assumption that a person should win? This follows perfectly after they awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to Mr. Green, Al Gore whoâs home consumes more electricity then five average family homes. I supported Obama after Ron Paul dropped out but this is just silly.
FriscoLou over 15 years ago
Dang, Reno Mike I was thinking the same thing myself, (heavy on the hacks), and then you posted it first. Shoot.
ringokarma over 15 years ago
I would like to remind the likes of RenoMike, who chastises us âRIGHT WING DELUSIONALSâ and accuses us of â⊠futile rantingâ, that 9/11 was six years in the planning and was set in place while Clinton (a Democrat) was in office. Same thing is happening now; an army is being imported into this country while Obama encourages us to look the other way. Skip the jargon, avoid calling people âdumbassesâ and use language intelligently to make your point and perhaps, just perhaps, we will consider your point of view. Until then, I will only ask you if your DD-214 lists an Honorable discharge; and what arena did you serve in when you did your military time? Or are you one of those light in the shorts kind of guys that thought you got away with something by not serving?