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| German Nobel Laureate: Bush ''Threat to World Peace'' |
| 2002-12-30 |
| Renowned German writer Guenter Grass, attacked U.S. president George W. Bush, saying he is a threat to world peace, adding that his actions are based on a disturbed familial atmosphere. In an interview Sunday, December 29, with the German Welt am Sonntag, Grass, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1999, said that in the current political situation, the dangerous mix of financial, political and family-related interests have made Bush a truly dangerous politician. Grass, who is a personal friend of German chancellor Schroeder, also said that Bush's personality strikes a resemblance between the new liberalism which the United States presents and the terror which it's fighting against. "Yasss... There's no difference between the Merkins and the terrorists. It's all the same. Who's to say one's better than the other? In my mind, they're both bad, but the Merkins are worse..." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #6 Look, its simple. They are all Europeans. They love to invade or be invaded. They love to colonize and critize others who do the same thing. They are weak in spirit. Overly taxed, nannied, and patronized. And I am not referring to the winners but the committees. |
| Posted by: Jack 2002-12-31 06:45:55 |
| #5 oops... "could tell" -> "could not tell" |
| Posted by: Tom Roberts 2002-12-30 20:52:45 |
| #4 Grass is one of the first German authors to come to grips with the Nazi past. Good... Grass is also one of the run of the mill German intelligenti who could tell the difference between a Nazi and a Communist street thug in the context of the political violence of the 1920's -30's. Bad... But on the scale of the Nobel committee, the Good outweighs the Bad. However, it's rare when contemporary literary criticism is confirmed by posthumous acclaim. |
| Posted by: Tom Roberts 2002-12-30 20:51:28 |
| #3 Not sure about the brain damage, but to win the Nobel in Literature you have to write a book that almost no one execept those in the "intellectual community" would have any interest in reading. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2002-12-30 12:53:51 |
| #2 I think the brain damage is a prerequisite for getting on the committee. |
| Posted by: Fred 2002-12-30 12:29:57 |
| #1 What is it with the nobel prize? (gunter grass: literature 1999)During the 1990's Gunter Grass opposed the reunification of germany and considered it equal to the nazi annexation of austria. Do you have to have brain damage to get a nobel prize, or do you get brain damage when you get a nobel prize? |
| Posted by: Frank Martin 2002-12-30 12:12:08 |