Comments on: Obama wins Premature Prize http://liberationraj.org/2009/10/obama-wins-premature-prize/ Life, liberty and pursuits Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:22:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: edsley neoson daniel http://liberationraj.org/2009/10/obama-wins-premature-prize/comment-page-1/#comment-1788 edsley neoson daniel Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:22:46 +0000 http://liberationraj.org/?p=81#comment-1788 it may have been a non-convincing decision, but look at this way, in the larger scheme of things, does it not now put a pressure on him to move him out of his US hat and make him a leader with a world humanitarian hat! especially in the case of afghanistan.. they are talking of 40000 additional troops! it seems now, that to win he had to convince the US citizens but to stay on! he now has to convince the world! :) Maybe a planned move by Norwegian group! In any-case, look at the past recipients! Yaseer Arafat! Al Gore! (Great work by them no doubt, but Nobel Prize! please nooo) Goes on to say that the prize is sometimes more a political tool to pre-empt what is to come to expected of them! But i do agree maybe, it was an overkill! it may have been a non-convincing decision, but look at this way, in the larger scheme of things, does it not now put a pressure on him to move him out of his US hat and make him a leader with a world humanitarian hat! especially in the case of afghanistan.. they are talking of 40000 additional troops!

it seems now, that to win he had to convince the US citizens but to stay on! he now has to convince the world! :)

Maybe a planned move by Norwegian group! In any-case, look at the past recipients! Yaseer Arafat! Al Gore! (Great work by them no doubt, but Nobel Prize! please nooo) Goes on to say that the prize is sometimes more a political tool to pre-empt what is to come to expected of them!

But i do agree maybe, it was an overkill!

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