Look at the GOP candidates (except Ron Paul) and Republicans like Bush, Cheney and Reagan, and tell me if you think anyone would nominate them for negotiating a peaceful end to a conflict.

K, that doesn’t make Gore any more deserving of the prize. Not for the nominal purpose of the prize, at least; now if we consider the modern-day alternative purpose for which the prize has been awarded, certainly Gore is more deserving. (Bush, Cheney vs. Gore? No contest. Reagan vs. US-western-disarmament advocates IPPNW back in the eighties during the “freeze” movement? No contest.)

Hollywood likes Gore more, too. (And the UN?)

Look at the GOP candidates (except Ron Paul) and Republicans like Bush, Cheney and Reagan, and tell me if you think anyone would nominate them for negotiating a peaceful end to a conflict.

So by saying that you can also smear the 20 years or so Mr. Gore has been working on this issue.

It’s interesting you said “20 years.”

Yes!

Yeah, I know, the cheer-fest is underway…

What issue in the US hasn’t been politicized? We live in a polarized society- thanks to your friend, GW and his best buddy Karl.

Just wait until Hillary Clinton starts appealing to the Dem Party’s left wing and those farther left once she is back in the White House. We already saw how she was far more polarizing in the early 1990s than Bush ever has been.

Ok I’ll admit, he didn’t prevent any immediate war, but he believes he is working towards preventing the future destruction of the planet. And you’ve got to admit that the wars we are engaged in now are at least partly due to control of scarce resources.

No argument about the latter. I suspect there will be water wars in the Middle East in our future, for example.

I find him too alarmist, as are too many on this issue. There is no “crisis”; disaster is not “imminent”; we are not “cooking the planet.” There is no basis for interventionist, authoritarian, pet-lefty objectives as “solutions” to this “crisis.”

I find the celebrity aspect of this to be ridiculous.

The Peace (Leftist Politics) Prize itself is not that big a deal, given that with its politicization it has long been tainted and far removed from what it was meant to be and still ought to be.

These days I’m just glad to see someone engaged in a good cause get rewarded for it.

I’d rather it really, honestly be for peace, not simply a favorite good cause. And those who supported Arafat believed that his terrorism, excuse me, “freedom fighting,” was and remains a good cause.

Ok I’ll admit, he didn’t prevent any immediate war, but he believes he is working towards preventing the future destruction of the planet.

When he wins the prize for chemistry or physics, rather than for left-wing politics, I’ll respect it.

Maybe it doesn’t technically fit the category perfectly- but its still a far better choice than the year the committee picked Arafat. These days I’m just glad to see someone engaged in a good cause get rewarded for it.

And the issue is only a political one in the US- the rest of the civilized world is already on board waiting for us to wake up to reality- they’re not hiding with the covers drawn over their heads.

DLS- What issue in the US hasn’t been politicized? We live in a polarized society- thanks to your friend, GW and his best buddy Karl.

It seems like a backdoor way to slam Gore

Only if you neglect Inconvenient Facts, such as how blatantly political the Nobel Peace Prize and selection for awarding it have long been.

What war or hostility did he prevent or end, K.? And no, “war on the environment” and speculative future resource wars don’t count.

So by saying that you can also smear the 20 years or so Mr. Gore has been working on this issue.

As a result of the attention on global warming, other neglelcted issues have been resurrected from their death beds:: conservation, pollution and degredation of natural resources, and the list goes on.

Important also is the global rather than regional aspect.

A big plus is that an American is now on the international scene who does not come bearing weapons and who talks about co-operation instead of just preaching that everyone should do America’s bidding.

Yes!

And I say this as someone who largely agrees that global warming is for real.