| Skybird |
10-09-09 08:59 AM |
Same question from me: for what? So far he has not many acchievements to show, just voiced intentions and blocked, delayed and prevented plans - some of which one even cannot be sure he has not expressed for anything more but different, more instrumental purposes only (nuke-free world, for example - but especially this intention alone gets mentioned by the comittee).
It is my understanding that an award like this is given in appreciation and recognition of already delivered acchievements. And award is given after a deed, not in order to motivate it or to assist it in the future execution. But the Nobel comittee repeatedly in the past 15 years has given the prize for literature and peace to people whose culturaL OR PoLTICAL "AGENDA" THEY WanTED TO PUSH BY THAT: tHAT MAKES THE NOBEL (CAPS LOCK FRENZY!)Comittee interfering with political developements where it neither has the legitimiation to do so, nor is in congruence with the intention of the Nobel award.
In the case of Obama it may be explained by a perception of all his many (too many!) high flying plans and promises being in danger of crashing during attempted take-off, and it may also be explained by the massive degree by which he is perceived as a messiah who promised to form a better world. If that is the case, then this years award'S says more about the hopes of the masses, then about the accievements of Obama, and it says about how hopelessly overestimated he is - so much overestimated that he almost necessarily must fail in delivering fulfillment for all these expectations. For which he is to blame himself, too, since he msaaively helped to let them skyrocket binto outer nirvana in order to win the election. Now it is becoming a bommerang more and more. But hey, every politicians lives by making unfulfillable promises.
I must say that since longer time my respect for the Nobel peace prize and the literature prize is low, if not non-existent. and intentions alone - mean nothing if not being turned into reality, for good or for bad. I wish for a better world, too, where reason and justice rule for the sake of freedom - why don't I get a Nobel prize? And yesterday I had a good intention and something that I considered to be a brilliant idea - award, please!
The literature prize also is strange, a German author born in Romania - who almost nobody knows in Germany. She lives just two parallel streets away from where I lived with my parents in Berlin, in Friedenau, I often passed that house and street when I lived in Berlin. that part of Berlin, Friedenau, is home to two more Nobel prize winning authors, both just some hundred meters away from our former home. :) The world is a village.
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