THE ISSUE: Whether President Obama deserved to be awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.
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The Nobel Peace Prize Committee sees in President Obama a genuine peacemaker who appeals to the better angels of our nature (“O’s Albatross,” John Bolton, PostScript, Oct. 11).
Many people of other countries and their leaders like and trust Obama. He has the ability and the humility to win friends and influence people.
America should be proud of our unflappable president. In spite of all who are trying to take him down, Obama is working very hard to make America and the world a better, safer place.
Paul Whiteley Sr.
Louisville, Ky.
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John Bolton is spot on. Europe’s elite political class doesn’t understand Americans. After almost 100 years of America defending them, they have little sense of their own absurdity in the eyes of most rational people.
The Nobel Peace Prize has become a farce. Awarding it to deserving persons would mean confirming that evil people need to be dealt with in the harshest of terms and that it requires real work to create peace.
Many winners in the past have risked life and limb or done the hard work on the ground. Obama has done neither and, in fact, risks nothing.
Robert Sanfilippo
Roslyn Heights
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What in the world has happened to American patriotism? When hatred for our president outweighs our love of our country, our political society has indeed become sick.
Cheers when our country loses its bid for the Olympics and sneers when the president receives the Nobel Peace Prize? It’s disgusting.
Arlene Philomena
Bayside