President Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize

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Postby chloe » Sun Oct 11, 2009 7:12 pm

and whats more, he probably has a whole team of people paid to come up with his peace-making ideas,does that really 'gel' with the whole notion of a nobel prize?
and i agree with someone above about what it means to the merit of the nobel prize, its just made it into a sham in my mind.
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Postby kallefs » Sun Oct 11, 2009 7:29 pm

chloe wrote:and whats more, he probably has a whole team of people paid to come up with his peace-making ideas,does that really 'gel' with the whole notion of a nobel prize?


That goes for every other category except (maybe) in literature.
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Postby xrodolfox » Wed Oct 14, 2009 3:28 am

Gelert wrote:Bit odd, even came on the day the Americans decided to bomb the moon.

seasiren wrote:I saw this on the morning news and fell out of my chair .... after I stopped laughing I managed to get out .... um, how?


These two posts represent my thoughts quite well.
"The worker has the right to leave his boss, but can she do it? And if she does quit him, is it in order to lead a free life; where she will have no master but herself? No, she leaves to sell herself to another employer. She's driven by the same hunger. Thus the worker's liberty is only a theoretical freedom, lacking any means of realization; an utter falsehood."
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Postby chloe » Mon Oct 19, 2009 7:49 am

kallefs wrote:
chloe wrote:and whats more, he probably has a whole team of people paid to come up with his peace-making ideas,does that really 'gel' with the whole notion of a nobel prize?


That goes for every other category except (maybe) in literature.

yes very true actually!
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