Kasz216 on 09 October 2009
| Orca_Azure said: Aren't most peace winners just recipients because they speak and 'try' to promote peace? Did MLKJ accomplish anything tangible on a wide scale before earning a prize? It's an award based on effort, not on accomplishing the impossible. Obama deserves it for bending over backwards trying to quell the anger of the world. That first speech to the muslin world, the ongoing diplomacy with iran and north korea, the talks with russia, and trying to bring both wars to an end instead of starting a new one in the middle east have to be worth something. While the idea of true peace is but a fleeting dream, you'd be hard pressed to find someone who has used his standing in the world to try to achieve it more than obama. |
Actually MLK DID do a lot of wide scale tangiable things before he won the peace prize.
Look up the Birmingham Campaign.
He was also at it for much more then a year... did much more with much more agaisnt him.
For example... he was jailed during said Birmingham campaign in 1963 and still worked against those who jailed him.
To compare Obama with MLK is outright ridiculious.
Also actually i could name many people who've done more. For example the afore mentioned Morgan Tsvianni.
