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Kasz216 on 11 October 2009
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DaBuddahN said:
Kasz216 said:

So... your argument is basically.

He should win the Nobel Prize because he's not George W Bush.  In that case... pretty much every US president should be getting a Nobel Prize from here on out.

When else did the Nobel Prize people get it wrong? 1994. 

Also the complete snub of Gandi... who deserved a Nobel prize possibly more then anybody ever.

There are tons of other more qualified candidates out there.

Also... you know these aren't the same people all the time right?  The Nobel Prize commission changes.

You do know that the year they were going to award Gandhi the Nobel prize was the year he died right? Also, due to this fact, the year he died, the Nobel prize was awarded to NO ONE, and their reason was that the was no living person on Earth who deserved the award (since the Gandhi died). So no, they didn't really snub Gandhi, he died. Although, I, personally, would have made an entire ceremony in his honor and give him the prize, but that's just me. 

Actually that's not correct.

He was twice nominated before and rejected because they thought Gandhi was being duplicitous and that he was a patriot above all else.

 

It's more correct to say nobody got the award because Gandhi died.  He died even before the nominations ended. 


If alive... it would be surprising if he'd won.  Europeons and Americans almost exclusivly won Peace Prizes back then.

I mean... if he didn't do enough in 1947... when he was rejected for possibly being a liar and being a patriot first who only cared about indians...

what in 1948 changed their mind?  


Additionally Gandhi is just the most prominent of those snubbed.  Another could example is Eleanor Roosevelet who was an amazing rights worker and who worked as the "consious" of the most powerful man in Washington... who was actually somewhat meanspirited.

People credit FDR with stuff like the New Deal.

Truth is, he was a strict ultraconservative Hoover like Republican until Elenor Roosevelt got ahold of him.