{"id":190983,"date":"2009-10-09T11:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T16:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/09\/i-guess-that-its-now-the-not-george-w-bush-prize-not-the-nobel\/"},"modified":"2009-10-09T11:14:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T16:14:00","slug":"i-guess-that-its-now-the-not-george-w-bush-prize-not-the-nobel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/09\/i-guess-that-its-now-the-not-george-w-bush-prize-not-the-nobel\/","title":{"rendered":"I Guess That it&#8217;s Now the &#8220;Not George W. Bush&#8221; Prize, not the Nobel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not saying that Barack Obama won&#8217;t deserve the Nobel Peace Prize some day, but he certainly does not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/gwire\/2009\/10\/09\/09greenwire-obama-wins-nobel-prize-in-part-for-confronting-55250.html\">deserve his award of the prize today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I dunno, maybe people like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Morgan_Tsvangirai\">Morgan Tsvangirai<\/a>, who  accomplished something like reforms in Zimbabwe at significant personal risk and cost, were just busy flying that day, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freeenterpriseland.com\/BOOK\/KILDALL.html\">Gary Kildall was with IBM<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, I think that there <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">should<\/span> be a &#8220;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Not George W. Bush<\/span>&#8221; prize, and there is a better than even chance that Barack Obama deserves this, excluding the who Habeas, prosecuting torture, too big to fail stuff.<\/p>\n<p>You know, this does remind me a lot of Ronald Reagan, in a good way, in that it appears that Obama could fall into a cesspool, and come out smelling like a lilac.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing that I can figure is that the Nobel committee decided that this would be the best way for them to pressure Obama to get out of Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not saying that Barack Obama won&#8217;t deserve the Nobel Peace Prize some day, but he certainly does not deserve his award of the prize today. I dunno, maybe people like Morgan Tsvangirai, who accomplished something like reforms in Zimbabwe at significant personal risk and cost, were just busy flying that day, like Gary Kildall &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-breaking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}