Should Nobel Laureate Al be Restored ....

[FOTD]

to the Presidency He Won in 2000?

It would solve the Hillary issue....

[rwarn17588]

What a dumb question. It's nonsense.

[Ibanez]

The Nobel Peace Prized stopped having any meaning after Arafat won it.

Hell Hitler was once nominated for the damn thing.

Anymore it is just a way for the Nobel Committee to make a political statement.

Now the other Nobel Awards still mean something....but the Peace Prize is about as worthless as a Daytime Emmy at this point.

[sgrizzle]

Hitler was robbed! He was nominated in 1939 but they didn't give out any awards that year.

[cannon_fodder]

I'll ignore the non-issue raised and instead discuss the Noble Peace prize.

I have looked at it with great doubt since it was awarded to a man who still believes "Israel and the Jews of the Palestine should not exist" and actively attempted to remove them.  In this instance, a group was awarded for research into Global Warming (its capitalized now) which might someday cause war if it turns out to be true.

Why not award the peace prize to the man who developed large scale distillation because it might have stopped wars in the middle east?  Or to the many men who improved food stocks?  Those have definitely stopped wars.  The number of causes that might have possibly stopped wars in the future are simply retarded.

As was this award.

[iplaw]

quote:Originally posted by sgrizzle

Hitler was robbed! He was nominated in 1939 but they didn't give out any awards that year.

If only the State of Florida could have voted for the Nobel prize that year...Hitler would have been a shoe-in!

[rwarn17588]

You're free to have an opinion on the Nobel Peace Prize winners all you want.

But to degrade the award as meaningless is to ignore its history. I most certainly think that other Nobel Peace Prize winners such as Mother Teresa, Lech Walesa, Desmond Tutu, UNICEF, Amnesty International, Gen. George Marshall, the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela and last year's winner, The Grameen Bank, were exemplary choices and have proven to be so many times over.

[RecycleMichael]

I am with ya, rwarn.

I am a peacenik.

I won't even play tug of war. If it was tug of peace, I would be a champion.

[Conan71]

quote:Originally posted by recyclemichael

I am with ya, rwarn.

I am a peacenik.

I won't even play tug of war. If it was tug of peace, I would be a champion.

Sounds like it was a tug job this year, for sure.

[Breadburner]

quote:Originally posted by FOTD

to the Presidency He Won in 2000?

It would solve the Hillary issue....

No Axoaxao he should not....

[Double A]

If Hillary gets the nomination I'm hoping for a Gore/Nader Independent ticket.

[swake]

quote:Originally posted by Double A

If Hillary gets the nomination I'm hoping for a Gore/Nader Independent ticket.

Yet another woman in power that you can't stand. is there a pattern?

[Double A]

With the serious environmental issues and imported product safety crises we are facing as a nation, I think a Nobel prize winning environmentalist and a consumer advocate might be just what the doctor ordered.

[cannon_fodder]

quote:Originally posted by rwarn17588

You're free to have an opinion on the Nobel Peace Prize winners all you want.

But to degrade the award as meaningless is to ignore its history. I most certainly think that other Nobel Peace Prize winners such as Mother Teresa, Lech Walesa, Desmond Tutu, UNICEF, Amnesty International, Gen. George Marshall, the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela and last year's winner, The Grameen Bank, were exemplary choices and have proven to be so many times over.

And that's why its so offensive!  Do you really think Al Gore belongs on the list with those people?  The entire pretense for his winning is based on future maybe this maybe that then maybe so this maybe stopped violence and therefor caused maybe future peace!

[rwarn17588]

<cannon fodder wrote:

Do you really think Al Gore belongs on the list with those people?

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Yes.

Granted, he's not in the same league as an obvious titan like Mother Teresa (although your opinion my vary). But the Nobel committee says the Peace Prize can be given to people who spearhead humanitarian causes. And Gore's cause is definitely humanitarian.

He's advocating a stance that would cause less air pollution and help wean us off oil dependency to Middle East countries, a number of which use that money to cowtow to terrorism groups.

I don't see a down side to that.

The those were the reasons (though not the only ones) that our family drives fuel-efficient cars, uses compact fluorescent light bulbs, buys Energy Star appliances and has solar panels on the roof of our house. Our electric bill is now only $15 up to a maximum of $40 a month. And we're aiming to drop it some more.