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Orca_Azure on 09 October 2009
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Kasz216 said:
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.

I'm quite aware of Morgan Tsvangirai's (tsvianni) accompishments in Zimbabwe. He's indeed been through a lot in trying to fix the corruption that the country is steeped in. His political arrests are reminiscent of past greats like Nelson Mandela. I easily admit that Tsvangirai has been at it for decades longer.  I would still like to remind you, however, that his efforts have been in a rather remote part of the world. I have yet to see him stumping on a global scale for peace, for disarmament, or for anything that truly promtotes worldwide peace.

Perhaps many people want to call it a popularity contest, but in the end of the day obama's name and intentions are far more widely known than Tsvangirai's. You don't hear many leaders using their pulpit try and openly communicate with the rest of the world. While he may be new to the office and still green behind the ears, I still cannot think of anyone who has tried to use his position and "celebrity" to such a grand scale.