Yesterday, I was legitimately shocked by news that Barack Obama had won a Nobel Peace Prize for being trendy and simply saying he'll do some things. Hideo Kojima isn't quite as cynical as me, however, and thinks that President McJesus is bringing us one step closer to his vision of a nuke-free world. He also thinks this while situation is a great opportunity to plug Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker.
"President Obama, who declared 'A World Without Nuclear Weapons' in Prague, has won the Nobel Peace Prize," states the MGS game designer. "Has the era at last started shifting? The start of the Peace Walker plan? I hope that comes to be. Peace will not walk to you. You must both walk towards one another."
Hate to break it to you, Hideo, but just saying that you'll do something doesn't mean that it'll actually happen, and the chances of a world without nuclear weapons is are slim to nil. I'm afraid that Kojima's world where nanomachines control everything and robot dinosaurs fire invisible missiles is about one hundred times more likely than Obama crafting this whimsical nuke-free world of love that everybody seems to think he's capable of crafting like some sort of magic Santa.
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9:00 PM on 10.10.2009
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Also, google "NPT", folks: fascinating history there.
But seriously, peace has to start somewhere, and President Obama has taken the first steps. You can rag on someone for saying they're gonna do the impossible, but think about what that makes you. We all play videogames, so it can't be hard to think of analogies to help illustrate if your thinking is positive, productive, or not.
Stockholm was pressured to give Obama the award to stop him from putting more troops into the war and advance efforts in pulling troops out. After all he couldn't accept the award and further the war without taking MASSIVE opposition. So what happens? Well remember last week when he said he was gonna put more resources into the war? This week he retracted that saying he's putting withdraw talks back on the table.
I don't agree that Obama deserved the award and if that was Stockholm's intention then it's very underhanded. Especially with all the strife in the world. I'm taking Peace Studies and it's specifically upset my personal interest but if my stepdad's theory is true it's certainly effective.
I'm not ragging on him for saying it. I'm not ragging on Obama at all, actually. I'm ragging on the people who have basically created an Obama Myth whereby he is this savior of the world when he hasn't even had a chance to prove himself yet.
Point is, he's untested. He's said things and that's all he's done. In fact, the Peace Prize nominations ended after he had been in office for twelve days. So yeah, he hadn't even been President for two weeks before they gave it to him, which pretty much confirms he won the prize because "He's Obama and he's sooooo cool."
Someday maybe he would have stopped wars and lowered the number of nukes, but god damn give the award to him when he actually does that stuff, not years before it just because he says he will.
By the way, I'm gonna make the cure for cancer and end all wars forever, award please.
... i've never much respected Kojima (apparently i'm one of the few, but i find him to be a *terrible* writer, though great game designer), so i'm not that surprised that he'd pop out with this sappy junk :P
Glad to see my favorite game designer likes Obama!
To get a little political, i think alot of people are getting misconceptions about Obama getting this award.
He didn't get it for achievements (which he hasn't done yet), he got it for being an inspirational figure and extraordinary EFFORTS at making peace.
The award came from his almost inspiring story of him winning the election and the message he carried through the election. As a black man myself, i would never even think a US would be ready for a black president (let alone vote for a black man) I'm pretty sure most of you on the list thought so too when his name became known. Plus, as Jim cited, the nominations started in January 2009, so i'm sure the judges are using 2008 to gauge his worthiness. All of you can check how many "Man of the year" award he received for 2008
Say what you will about his current achievements (which are lacking at the moment), but you can't deny that him (and his wife) already made history, and his story is inspiring people ALL across the GLOBE. That should be recognized.
If Nobel Peace Prize was for achievements, Al Gore should give his back (he didn't solve global warming).
It remains to be seen how he will handle Afghanistan, Iran & Iraq, but I support the president. He's trying the best he can.
So Jim, i respectfully disagree (but i like to hear people's thoughts on it)
I can't really argue that too much. However, as for him not doing anything, I do know that it not true. I read an article in my local paper about 3-4 months ago I believe, and it was showing how Obama had made visits to a region in the US where many power plants had been shut down by oil companies who were trying to keep alternate fuel industries down. Obama had these facilities opened up, and it was a very large number of them, stating that the US needed to either re-establish itself as a innovative and world leader in new fuel alternatives or be left behind. He's also started a program for college students of certain majors to have internships at the White House, something that's never been done before to my knowledge. Great quote-hyping aside, he did open those plants, they will generate a large amount of power, and he is backing up education, technology, and innovation. Those are important I reckon.
And as for the "ragging on him/what it makes you" part, I aim that at everyone because I see a lot of negative criticism about him, yet he hasn't done anything wrong yet. The truth is as of now, he doesn't have to make false promises anymore. He's already satisfied any selfish desires the man could possibly have by becoming history's first non-white, U.S. black president. At this point, I think yea, he could just be trying to be the best president in history or recent history period, but why do people not want that to happen? We need the best president in history or recent history right now if we don't want to follow the Romans into collapse.
"We need the best president in history or recent history right now if we don't want to follow the Romans into collapse."
Socializing America makes him better than George Washington and Theodore Roosevelt? Yeah, no.
{gets the popcorn and soda ready for the show}
*shot*
Best. Picture. Evar. lol
You totally miss my point and minimize it into a single comparison between him and former great presidents.
Seriously makes me sad sometimes that my country often reminds me of my ps3. Plagued by fanboyism. Don't take my critisism personal kefkaesque since I'm basing it on 1 sentence of thought from you, but that thought is completely immature and you don't share the same view as most of the people within the science, math, engineering, art, and physics wards. Why are you focused on little words and ideas such as socialism? If and when we ever get it right, I doubt it will be because we gave it a name before realized we knew what needed to be done. Your thinking is 2-dimensional and you not seeing that just because things become more socialized it does not mean things are socialized.
Unrelated to kefka, I once read an interesting result conducted from some University's research I believe, it stated that 99.9% of people who had attained ph.D had become democrats within the U.S., implying that the more educated you become the more likely you are to become a democrat.
Though, this IS a blog, technically. Still, I've lost a decent amount of respect for you with this.
You ranted about how I'm immature and how my thought process is inferior to yours based off one sentence I said. And then you lead that up with a citationless internet statistic about how which political party someone is in is proof of intelligence. Good job there bro.
And I used the word socialism because I like the idea of personal freedoms (I'm a libertarian, not a republican as I'm sure you also assumed after you talked about how I'm less intelligent than you because of my opinions) and socialism is close to the opposite of that, but I guess that makes you superior to me huh.
The nominations were held months ago, but the actual voting happened much more recently. But yeah, he seemed just as shocked as the rest of us.
I could be wrong.
No, he was chosen to receive it. It's the reason so many people are going into angry little tiffs.
Also! Libertarians are funny. And by funny, I mean sad.
People who make baseless insults on the internet are funnier.
Or maybe we'll just give it to celebrities, like honorary...aaaah wait we already do this.
Either way, I am an Obama supporter, but I don't get what this award was for. Seriously, it was stupid. People may concoct elaborate schemes as to why this happened, but honestly...it happened, it was dumb, blah blah.
My hope is that earning this award pushes Obama to work harder in accomplishing what he said he would.
You dont think its foolish that the man won a prize for not actually doing anything?
of "bringing momentum to a set of causes"
Every Libertarian I have ever known was just a Republican with common sense. Seriously what is the difference? I mean I know the difference but the majority of people I know who call themselves Libertarians would do better to clean up the clusterfuck that is the Republican party with Meghan McCain. I mean far be it from me to put down absolutely anyone because my views are particularly unpopular.
Thanks for telling me how to do my job. Or in this case, telling me NOT to do my job. Genius.
You know, I'm a big supporter of Obama, but even I thought it was kind of dumb that he won the Nobel Peace Prize without having actually done anything yet.
Anyway, Jim, yeah, you're entitled to your opinion, and even though I share this particular opinion, there's a time and place for everything. I personally don't think Destructoid is the place for you to express your views on our president.
The funny thing is that no one is saying he's our savior EXCEPT the people complaining about him.
Oh and if you don't agree with me, your obviously fan xbox fanboy, because my opinion is simply superior to yours.