Oslo's Calling
What worries me is, what kind of message are we sending kids? Bomb the Moon. Win a Peace Prize. You know what's next. People are going to want to bomb Mars. Just to see what happens.
What worries me is, what kind of message are we sending kids? Bomb the Moon. Win a Peace Prize. You know what's next. People are going to want to bomb Mars. Just to see what happens.
Hank Azaria | Posted 05.25.2011
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Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
US President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize Friday. The prize has been awarded by the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo since 1901, with break...
Michael Brenner | Posted 05.25.2011
Following in the rhetorical wake of Barack Obama is like being the clean-up crew after the Imperial cavalry have passed. A disagreeable but necessary duty in the interests of public health.
Dr. Leo Rangell | Posted 05.25.2011
Obama's very election affected a major change, altering the mood of the country and the world from cynicism and doubt to optimism and hope. This was "doing" a great deal, in one move, by bringing about one event.
Michael Brenner | Posted 05.25.2011
The different national responses to the Nobel award shed some light on what may be the reaction when it dawns on people that Obama is not the long awaited American messiah.
Bart Motes | Posted 05.25.2011
Obama has given new possibilities to a world that only a year ago was defined by conflict. He's rejected the zero-sum game of the Bush years in favor for respect driven diplomacy.
Clarence B. Jones | Posted 05.25.2011
The subtext of Obama's speech is that he can be exempt from the constraints of moral leadership implicit in the receipt of the Nobel Prize and still use it as a political marketing tool. But it doesn't work that way.
Scott Atran | Posted 05.25.2011
The award of the Peace Prize to Obama is a symbolic gesture to youth all over the developing world who have a new hero. Perhaps the ability to simply inspire hope now indeed merits a Nobel.
Nancy Snow | Posted 05.25.2011
The prize places this very new American president in the position of herculean expectations to fulfill his vision that the world might live together peaceably in a nuclear-free environment.
Will Durst | Posted 05.25.2011