Oct 09 2009
The Nobel Peace Prize will be a joke from now on…
It was controversial when Arafat and Carter won, but politically-motivated awards often are. Al Gore winning might have been chaulked up to hysteria over a perceived threat to the world.
But giving a Nobel prize to someone whose international claim-to-fame is winning an election? Comparing President Obama to Lech Walesa or Nelson Mandela or… well, just about ANY Nobel Laureate from politics – that’s like comparing a drop of linseed oil to the Sistine Chapel.
He hasn’t done anything yet. After hearing him repeatedly refer to “my health care plan”, I went looking and discovered that it exists only in his mind. And don’t get me started on his recent choice for “school safety czar”: By law, educators and administrators must report and seek help for suspected sexual abuse of under-aged students, not encourage them to keep hooking up with strange adults.
Edit: As usual, James at Heelers Diaries made me laugh with his version of the announcement: “Other Nobel Prize winners announced this evening included Beyonce and Lady Gaga who respectively received the Nobel Prize for Physics and the Nobel Prize for Economics.”
[...] It was controversial when Arafat and Carter won, but politically-motivated awards often are. Al Gore winning might have been chaulked up to hysteria over a perceived threat to the world. But giving a Nobel prize to someone whose international claim-to-fame is winning an election? Comparing President Obama to Lech Walesa or Nelson Mandela or… well, [...] Read more… [...]