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The Tampa Tribune

Published: October 13, 2009

Since when is talking about hope good enough to win any kind of an award, let alone a Nobel Peace Prize?

I always thought you actually had to accomplish something. I've never heard of a doctor winning a Nobel prize for medicine because he hoped to discover a cure for a disease or a writer getting a Nobel for literature for hoping that he will one day write a book. Has a ballplayer ever won a batting title for hoping to hit .400? Of course, the president was in office for 11 days when he was nominated, so maybe I missed something that warranted him winning what used to be a very prestigious award. I guess the committee never considered Ronald Reagan winning the Cold War and freeing tens of millions of people from communist oppression, or George Bush Sr. liberating millions of Muslim Kuwaitis from an invading Iraqi army, worthy of consideration. Neither hoped about liberating all those people; they actually did it.

LARRY MCCLAIN

Wesley Chapel

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