12-10-2009, 11:50 AM
Thank you very much Ed Jewett!
I don't see how the Nobel could be anything other than negotiated a priori at this point. Remember the campaign to have Richard Holbrooke get the prize for Bosnia? Campaign. It's an established thing apparently, but not on public display.
David Guyatt Wrote:Magda Hassan Wrote:Absolutely. Just for starters the nominee has to accept the nomination. Plenty are nominated but when contacted by the committee refuse it. It certainly was NO surprise for Obama. Also nominations closed about 2 months after Obama took office. He wouldn't have even known his way around the west wing by then let alone have been able to have unleashed the forces of peace upon the world. Which we are still waiting for. And waiting. :bebored:And waiting.
On reflection, it seems most logical to me that the Peace Prize was negotiated/bought well ahead of Obama taking office. It was part and parcel of the bright, new, smiling, caring (rhetorically speaking only, of course) Obama Administration that was carefully foisted upon the American public and the World.
I think Chussodovsky may well have hit the nail on the head.
I don't see how the Nobel could be anything other than negotiated a priori at this point. Remember the campaign to have Richard Holbrooke get the prize for Bosnia? Campaign. It's an established thing apparently, but not on public display.