andrewclunn wrote:No, but that's at least long term dedication to a cause. Obama has been in office a little over half a year! I criticize right leaning media for their propaganda and I'm not blaming Obama (He hasn't had time to really do very much) but this is clearly nothing more than partisan politics. I attempt to put honesty and objectivity before my own political leanings, and this is obviously garbage. It's not like there aren't plenty of deserving people out there for the Nobel peace prize. Just because somebody does something in favor of the right, doesn't mean I suddenly give them my full support. That would make me a tool. You hold yourself to standards or you become nothing more than a shill. I am a critical thinker first and a right-winger second. The only way to justify this as anything other than political propaganda is to be a left-winger first and a critical thinker second. The Nobel Peace Prize should stand for more than this, and the fact that it doesn't should make us all ashamed.
That's one way of looking at it, and I'm not saying it's wrong. I'm just saying that there are other, more global, perspectives that apparently reach a different conclusion. The message from Oslow seems to be that he's already made such a dramatic and globally-welcomed turnaround in US foreign policy, despite partisan politics at home, that they feel the need to simultaneoulsly reward and encourage that program. The conservative-progressive/right-left dichotomy isn't so clear-cut. For example, here in S. Korea, it's the conservatives that support Obama and his foreign policy, while the 'liberals' are pushing for a return to a 'pure' Korean society, free of American hegemony. The only way to understand what happens overseas is to walk in their moccasins for a mile or two and see the world through their eyes.
Incidentally, I'm not committed to either the right or left. Fuck, I'm not even committed to the centrist position. Every issue is a different issue, and I agree with some policies of all sides and disagree with some from every side. If that makes me a pussy, well so what. You are what you eat.
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