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So campaign speeches and promises can win you a Nobel Peace Prize? Dang, almost every presidential candidate should have won it. My favorite clip was Obama persuading the people of the most powerful country on earth that nuclear weapons should be abolished. What? He persuaded us, the people of the United States of America that all nuclear weapons should be abolished?
Now hold on here folks, does anyone on this board (and I know we have a few Obama faithfuls) really think that in our lifetimes that we will abolish nuclear weapons? Seriously, we should abolish our nuclear weapons while other whacko leaders are developing theirs? When exactly did he persuade us into this notion?
As far as the rest of her points, it was basically stating that even though you put years and years into some peace effort, the Nobel was given even to them even though they failed or did not succeed until years after the award was handed out. And that was her justification for Obama winning? The fact that many winners were given the award before they actually accomplished their goal? That because Obama made some campaign pledges?
Wow, that is a far reach. Now if we want to award him for his civil liberties crusade, ok, I can go along with that one.
