Obama can’t possibly be the catalyst for your disregard of the NPP. There were far more controversial picks for decades prior.
This obsession with Obama’s award is just further evidence Fox News decides what we recall and get angry about. It comes up every single year. It’s a meme at this point. Obama but not Arafat or Kissinger? Get out of here lmao
Arafat and Rabin received it for "their efforts to create peace in the Middle East."
Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ received it because they "jointly worked for a ceasefire and for bringing peace to Vietnam," though Lê Đức Thọ refused it and Kissinger did not attend the ceremony.
Obama received it nine months into his Presidency for "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples," despite having few if any concrete foreign policy achievements.
Obama could have at least matched Kissinger by ducking the ceremony, or even by refusing it like Lê Đức Thọ did because it wasn't justified.
Amazing that we're actually debating which of the warlords created the most peace per fatality inflicted in a discussion on the merits of their Nobel Peace Prizes.
That alone, in a sane world, would tell you these people had no business having a Nobel Peace Prize. At least Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ had the common decency not to stand at that podium. Most of those other Nobel Peace Prize winners did not have that kind of self awareness.
In the context of Trump trying to get one too, isn't that pretty obvious to bring up? Perhaps we could talk about Jimmy Carter's war crimes too, he got a peace nobel as well. Committing war crimes is a bit like breathing for US presidents.
Yeah but not sure how real it is, if Trump is serious about regime change war in Venezuela it would make sense to have their Juan Guaidó 2.0 puppet win it instead to manufacture consent for the war. So perhaps he got what he wanted anyway.
It’s mostly conservatives IME going “Trump deserves the peace prize” while also saying “the peace prize is meaningless because Obama got one.” Depending on the context and who they are talking to they emphasize one side of that or the other.
I think the GOP lost its mind when a black man won the Presidential election and had the audacity to get the peace prize as well. It has never left their news cycle since that time and why Trump is obsessed with getting a NPP.
This obsession with Obama’s award is just further evidence Fox News decides what we recall and get angry about. It comes up every single year. It’s a meme at this point. Obama but not Arafat or Kissinger? Get out of here lmao