Could Afghanistan Borrow Some Peace from Obama’s Peace Prize, Please?
Obama gets a Nobel peace prize…are you kidding me?
The title of a U.S. Libertarian Party article captures the disbelief: Libertarians suggest Nobel announcements should be moved to April Fool’s Day.
Norman Horne of LibertarianChristian.com, also chimes in with his piece A Peace Prize for a War Hawk. He concludes with a good summation of the backwardness of recent Nobel Prize selections: “We live in a bizarro world, folks, when you can get an Economics Prize for supporting the destruction of an economy (Paul Krugman), a Peace Prize for frightening people (Al Gore), and now a Peace Prize for supporting war (Obama)”.
My thoughts are that Obama mainly got this on the basis of (a) not being George Bush, (b) having some ideas that people liked (but never really putting them into practice), (c) being an “inspiring” figure, and (d) not being George Bush.
Maybe I should enter the Mr. America body building contest this year. I’m starting to think I might have a chance.
