Chavez Says Obama Did Nothing to Deserve Nobel Prize

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Chavez says Obama did "nothing" to deserve Nobel
Sun Oct 11, 2009 12:56pm EDT

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's socialist leader Hugo Chavez said on Sunday that U.S. President Barack Obama had done nothing beyond wishful thinking to earn the Nobel Peace Prize.

Chavez, who has mixed praise for Obama personally with criticism of his government's "imperialist" policies, said he thought it was a mistake when he read the U.S. leader had won.

"What has Obama done to deserve this prize? The jury put store on his hope for a nuclear arms-free world, forgetting his role in perpetuating his battalions in Iraq and Afghanistan, and his decision to install new military bases in Colombia," Chavez wrote in a column.

"For the first time, we are witnessing an award with the nominee having done nothing to deserve it: rewarding someone for a wish that is very far from becoming reality."

Chavez said giving Obama the Nobel award was like giving a baseball pitcher a prize simply for saying he was going to win 50 games and strike out 500 batters.

Although mild compared to some of the virulent rhetoric he often uses against the United States, Chavez's criticism contrasted with the assessment of his mentor, Fidel Castro.

The former Cuban leader said it was "a positive measure" that implied criticism of the "genocidal" policies of Obama's predecessors in the White House.

Though Caracas and Washington have hostile political relations, the United States remains the main buyer of oil from the OPEC member nation.

(Reporting by Andrew Cawthorne; Editing by Eric Walsh)
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE59A1MU20091011

[celticwarrior]

Just another example of the zionist-dominated Nobel committee's corrupt favouritism for candidates who support their world view. Obama has done everything his jewish-zionist handlers have told him to do. Not alone does he continue to prosecute illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, he (and his jewish-zionist Secretary of State Clinton) also sabre-rattles and threatens deeper sanctions against Israel's current chief enemy, Iran - actions calculated to further destabilise the Middle East region.

Obama and Clinton demand that Iran abandon plans for its nuclear deterrent to Israel's overwhelming illegal nuclear arsenal which, of course, they never mention as he, her husband Bill, and every US President since Kennedy have slavishly built up with American workers' tax dollars.