Comments on: You May Be an Instant Winner

By: balconesfault

balconesfault — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:53:05 +0000

The other side of the Nobel house gave a slap to the Bush Administration as well … with Elizabeth Blackburn (fired by Bush from the “President’s Council of Bioethics”) was a co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine this week.

I await the critique from the right that it should have gone to one of Bush’s other apointees, like Dr. W. David Hager (responsible for the decision to revoke the FDA’s approval of the emergency birth control pill , Dr. Hager refuses to prescribe birth control to unmarried patients – and his wife has alleged that he raped her repeatedly while she was under treatment for narcolepsy) … or Dr. Alma Golden, Bush’s Deputy Assistant Secretary of Population Affairs, who advocated abstinence as the only acceptable means of birth control for everyone, including adults.

Clearly this is all political.

By: mlindroo

mlindroo — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:55:16 +0000

> I think that Obama’s daughter Sasha should get the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
> for playing with her chemistry set.

Don’t overdo it, Sinz54…

Was it premature to award the peace prize to Obama? Yes!

Was it a totally ridiculous decision? In my opinion it wasn’t, since the selection committee tends to focus on contemporary initiatives to promote peace. For better or worse it is not a retrospective award such as e.g. the Chemistry price.

I think one great analogy is that the Nobel Peace Prize winner is a bit like the first overall pick of the National Basketball Association (or NHL, NFL) player draft. In both cases, the individual chosen is the one deemed to have the greatest potential. Naturally, some of these individuals later turn out to be “draft busts” which fizzle out despite the initial hype and hope. E.g. Yasser Arafat and the Oslo Accords come to mind…

In any case, I recall that David Frum and many other people in this forum were heaping scorn and ridicule on Obama last week for failing to bring the Olympics to Chicago despite all his smooth talk and diplomatic skill! If this was a setback for the prestige of the presidency, surely you have to give Obama even more credit now:-)

MARCU$

By: Kevin B

Kevin B — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:19:14 +0000

Go ahead. Good luck.

By: ottovbvs

ottovbvs — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:02:04 +0000

October 9th, 2009 at 11:23 am by Napoleon Linardatos
…….Well it would help your application if you could spell Nobel correctly………given that you can’t I suspect they are unlikely to be over impressed with your economic knowledge!!!

sinz54 // Oct 9, 2009 at 12:35 pm

……….And hopefully Sasha’s childish jokes are more original than yours

By: sinz54

sinz54 — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:35:31 +0000

I think that Obama’s daughter Sasha should get the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for playing with her chemistry set.

By: wrs10

wrs10 — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:59:29 +0000

“I think I should send my contact information to the Noble Prize committee”

I would not bother – the serious Prizes are decided in Sweden, the Mickey Mouse Prizes are decided in Norway!!!!