Posted by
Catmman on Friday, October 09, 2009 10:24:39 AM
Obama's "Major Award":
Even Liberals think this is a joke:
And this:
I had always thought the way these things worked was
that you helped bring peace or democracy to some corner of the globe
first, and then you won the Nobel Prize. But this year, the Nobel
Committee has turned that logic around: It clearly likes what Obama is
trying to do: on nuclear disarmament, climate change and Middle East
peace—and so, in a “preemptive” strike, it’s giving him the award now,
in hopes that doing so will boost his chances of success later. It’s an
interesting idea. Perhaps next they’ll start giving Oscars not to the
people who have made the best movies of last year, but to the people
who have the best chance of making the best movies next year. After
all, once you’ve already made the movie, you no longer need the
encouragement.
I like Barack Obama as much as the next liberal, but this is a
farce. He’s done nothing to deserve the prize. Sure, he’s given some
lovely speeches and launched some initiatives—on Iran,
Israeli-Palestinian peace, climate change and nuclear disarmament—that
might, if he’s really lucky and really good, make the world a more
safe, more just, more peaceful world. But there’s absolutely no way to
know if he’ll succeed, and by giving him the Nobel Prize as a kind of
“atta boy,” the Nobel Committee is actually just highlighting the gap
that conservatives have long highlighted: between Obamamania as global
hype and Obama’s actual accomplishments.
(H/T: Hot Air)