I've been getting awfully fed up with the brouhaha over whether President Trump should/should have/ever will win the Nobel Peace Prize.
In the first place, previous winners of the Prize have comprehensively dishonored and discredited it merely due to their inclusion on the winners' roster. Lawdog puts this nicely in perspective, so I won't repeat the details here.
My main objection is simply that the Nobel committee has demonstrated, repeatedly, that they're merely a collection of politically correct idiots. I remember how disgusted I was when former President Obama received the award. He had done (and has never done) anything even remotely justifying his receiving it. He was (and remains) a political hack, a tool in the hands of those manipulating him, and they never allowed him to achieve anything positive. It was a cretinous move to award him the Peace Prize, because anyone with a couple of working brain cells to rub together could figure that out for themselves; and if he had any personal integrity at all, he should have refused the Prize, to demonstrate that he wasn't completely a puppet of outside forces.
Since his acceptance of the Peace Prize, it's been irredeemably dishonored in my eyes, and in the eyes of many around the world. I don't want President Trump to be awarded the Peace Prize, and if he is, I want him to refuse to accept it. Why would anyone with any self-respect want to be numbered among a bunch of losers like that?
Peter
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President Donald J. Trump was really not eligible for the 2024 award as nomination are done by 1/31/2025. He had only been in office for 10 days and hadn't done much but executive orders. They have enough nomination for Trump who should be a shoo-in for next year's peace prize.
I agree, the Nobel Peace Prize has become a joke, it is a mere shadow of what it used to represent. Despite PDJT deserving of such an award his receiving the Order of the Nile yesterday was much more relevant. In the end those types of awards are meaningless to the whole...results are what is truly important, and We The People, and now the world, can not ignore his results. It took a businessman...not some talks cheap political hack looking for their next pat on the back for doing nothing significant.
That 'Peace' prize was dishonored long before Obama got one. Yasser Arafat got it in 1994.
The Nobel Peace Prize has been devalued to that of globalist swag since its messiah, Obama, was "awarded" it. Personally, I feel Trump has done more in his first year of his current term that the last several presidents did in the entireties of their terms. With Trump, AMERICA wins the awards!
Oh, but Obama was NotHitlerWarmongerBush, which immediately made him way overqualified for the prize . . . (/sarc)
Would YOU want an award, given for "peace", whatever that means, with recipients like Barry and Yasser Arafat? No thank you.
Former president Obama was nominated 2 weeks after being elected president, and was awarded the prize at about the 8 month mark.
I am a very conservative person, and would never have voted for someone like Obama, but when he did get elected I had hopes that he would be able to continue to heal the racial tensions that remained in the nation. In fact that may be why some people DID vote for him.
Obviously he did the exact opposite. I would list the times he divided the races but there are just too many. He was a failure as president in just about any metric you could choose.
Peter, I agree with you 100% that if the Nobel committee does decide to award the President the Peace Prize, he should turn it down. That would send a much stronger message to the world than accepting it. It would tell them that he does the things he does not for accolades but to make the world a better place for all.
Neville Chamberlain was nominated for the prize, but that year the prize wasn't awarded due to WW2. That tells me the prize isn't necessarily an award for long term accomplishments, and influenced more by politics than integrity.
If you're judging your worth on awards, you're doing it wrong. A swedish committee who awarded Arafat, among others, the Peace prize, doesnt seem like a good arbiter of the deserving. Just my opinion.
The prize comes with money and Obama didn't have any real money until he got to the White House, no way was he going to turn down a million plus dollars.
Concur... sigh
It could be that Trump by complaining about not receiving the prize is only pointing out the irrelevance of the prize.
His eye seems to be on the real prize.
Pleasing God.
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