Comments on: On the Nobel Prize for Occasional Peace

By: Why I Can Not Support Obama – Turning Points

Why I Can Not Support Obama – Turning Points — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:16:36 +0000

[...] And what is this crimeful essence? Matt Taibbi described it well in a recent article: [...]

By: samanthar

samanthar — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:46:56 +0000

“More likely the Obama critics who believe that Obama won this award for not being George Bush are right as well. ”

You should fix this grammar.

By: Bill in Exile » Blog Archive » WHO WE ARE VERSUS WHO THEY ARE

Bill in Exile » Blog Archive » WHO WE ARE VERSUS WHO THEY ARE — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:05:31 +0000

[...] Prize do you think anyone on the right would have written as savage a criticism of that award as Matt Taibbi did from the left. I guaranfuckingtee you would not. Everybody on the right would have circled [...]

By: kovpak

kovpak — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:57:20 +0000

Obama = “Bush with a human face”

By: Nobel prize was an effort to box Obama in on Iran

Nobel prize was an effort to box Obama in on Iran — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:45:26 +0000

[...] gave up their resistance. So it really did have Jageland’s hands all over it. And makes Matt Taibbi’s analysis even more on the mark. But I still argue that the award was an endorsement of diplomacy (the [...]

By: Can you stand just a little more Nobel Peace Prize talk? « The Confluence

Can you stand just a little more Nobel Peace Prize talk? « The Confluence — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:30:10 +0000

[...] Matt Taibbi has a great post up about Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize. It’s hard to believe, but there have been sillier moments in the history of the Nobel Peace Prize than this recent fiasco involving Barack Obama — it’s just so hard to remember them when you’re rolling around on the ground and spitting up greenish foam in a state of shock, as most of us were this past weekend as the news of Obama’s amazing award rolled over the airwaves. [...]

By: wuming

wuming — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:24:49 +0000

“…when there is still a significant minority of people living right here among us who believe that nonviolence can work as a permanent policy, and who have consistently rejected and opposed the obvious militaristic values of the society we actually happen to live in.”

you know matt, i’ve read much of your stuff, starting way back in early NY press days with koyen, and i have to say, that may be the most eloquently poignant phrase you’ve ever written.

thank you for giving voice to that significant minority, especially those who have been silent.

cheers

By: emmeke

emmeke — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:13:48 +0000

Hmm, this is interesting, and I had not considered it before. If this is really the reasoning behind the prize maybe it should have been awarded to Bush shortly after 9/11. He was certainly then “in a position to directly influence questions of peace and war, life and death.” Maybe it’s not so crazy after all that Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini were each at one point nominated, while Ghandi, having been nominated twelve times, was never awarded it-each could have used a little “boost to help peace along.”

By: playdo

playdo — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:06:27 +0000

This guy is the first black man to be president, that should be worth a peace prize alone… I can’t imagine all of the vitriol and racism he’s had to put up with and overcome to get this far, it certainly takes somebody worthy of a nobel peace prize… And I assume Barack wouldn’t find that reasoning worthy, but just about any other racially oppressed citizen would admire his accomplishments…

By: carolyn

carolyn — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:54:47 +0000

Rules that Alfred Nobel personally laid down for awarding of prizes:

“(Peace Prize shall be awarded) to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity among nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.”

The deadline for nominating Obama was February 1st – eleven days after his inauguration. I defy any of you to point to one single damned thing Obama did in those eleven days to have satisfied the ’shall have done’ requirement.

The only thing the Nobel Peace Committee ’shall have done’ is reduce their award to the worth of a plastic whistle in a cracker jacks box.