Comments | kenosis: The clock struck thirteen and, on the wall, read "Preparing to escalate war in Afghanistan is Peace"

kenosis

The clock struck thirteen and, on the wall, read "Preparing to escalate war in Afghanistan is Peace"

Oct 09, 2009 16:23

Ha ha! What did Obama do to deserve the Nobel Prize, again?

Hope doesn't count. If I graded my students on "hope" or potential to change the world I'd have a bunch of A+ students that couldn't add two fractions together. Potential <> actualization ( Read more... )

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heathencarla October 9 2009, 22:29:48 UTC

I thought I was depressed about the prize for literature until the peace one came around. Terry is still yelling "You were joking about that, right?".

bewarethejabb February 21 2010, 12:21:36 UTC

yeah... the nobel prize was really a bit much.

but i do think he's doing a better job as president than any number of people would (except for dennis kucinich, who is my goddamn hero) when you consider the giant pile of crap he inherited.

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kenosis February 22 2010, 02:58:31 UTC

I do think Obama's a better president than Bush.

bewarethejabb February 22 2010, 06:16:21 UTC

I think your carefully qualified statement is HI-larious. in equal ambiguity, i would say i agree with you.

kenosis February 22 2010, 07:11:24 UTC

My point wasn't to say that Obama's a bad president. I just seriously can't fathom why a wartime president, who was in the process of escalating a war, would win the Nobel Prize. I don't like Obama as a president but I don't like politicians in general.

If I were on the Nobel Peace Prize committee I would demand that every person, in their speech, must explain why they deserve it more than Stanislav Petrov.

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