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Letter: All our president has done is promise hope and change
Pass the cheese, please. President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize for not being ex-President George W. Bush.
The Nobel committee has injected their political view in our government and cheapened the award. Maybe they were like everyone else: They wanted hope and change without doing anything.
Americans are proud to have a Nobel Prize winner, but the majority are scratching their heads as to why he won. Smooth talk has not ended the war in Iraq or Afghanistan, and his hand-picked general is still waiting on his troop request.
Our soldiers are at President Obama’s will, even as they fight and die for our country. It has not closed Gitmo or employed the job seekers. It is no wonder that he is humbled. Even he is scratching his head in wonderment too.
Let’s see. He was nominated two weeks into his presidency and has yet to do anything except promise hope and change. Maybe that’s all the Nobel committee needed to hear: That we can be more like them.
R.C. Davis
Sevierville


Bush and the bin ladens were bbusiness partners.
You republicans keep saying Obama has not fulfilled his promise to change things. If nothing has CHANGED, then that would mean things are the same as they were when bush was president. You should be loving that.
Jean Paul Sartre waved off the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature. His explanation: "It is not the same thing if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre or if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre, Nobel Prize winner. A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form."
Afraid of Soviet retribution if he traveled to Stockholm to claim his prize, Boris Pasternak declined to accept the 1958 Prize in Literature, which he'd earned for Doctor Zhivago. The Academy refused his refusal. "This refusal, of course, in no way alters the validity of the award. There remains only for the Academy, however, to announce with regret that the presentation of the Prize cannot take place." Yevgeny Pasternak accepted the prize on behalf of his deceased father in 1989.