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Peace Prize - “Conservatives, you were right all along”
Monday, October 12th, 2009 | Politics |
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I don’t care who’s president, and what party they belong to: no U.S. president has a list of accomplishments worthy of this award with less than a year in office under their belt. I’d say this even if that president personally discovered a cure for cancer during his first year.
The Nobel Committee cost itself a vast amount of legitimacy (the ultimate prize, according to the true reading of Niccolo Machiavelli’s 16th century work “the Prince”).
In the past decade I had justified to myself the reasons behind the Peace Prize award given to President Carter (he’s in my view one of the best ex-presidents we’ve ever had) and Al Gore (for playing the part of a necessary Cassandra on global warming). Now it’s evident the Nobel Committee is nothing more than a wing of the Democratic party. Awarding this so soon for so little measurable success on Obama’s part does nothing else but cheapen the award for future recipients.
So as much as it pains me to say it, conservatives, you were right all along about this one.
2 Comments to Peace Prize - “Conservatives, you were right all along”
They’re not Democrats, but they are a bit . . . detached from reality sometimes.
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October 17, 2009
Of all those who did not deserve a NPP, Obama deserves it the most. I say this on the basis of the benchmark GWB set when he became POTUS in 2000 because he deserved it, as a Child of God.
GWB took us through the Looking Glass, Live with it.
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October 12, 2009