In case you haven't heard, President Obama got himself a Nobel Peace Prize. Ain't no thang, I got the Nobel for attendance.
Because it seems it doesn't take much to get a Nobel Peace Prize these days, as
the Wandering Bell blogger notes:
[T]he last time a sitting President of the United States was awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize, it was 1919, the president was Woodrow Wilson, who
had just help found the League of Nations in an attempt to prevent
further warfare. Before that, it was 1906 and the president was
Theodore Roosevelt. He brokered the Treaty of Portsmouth which ended
the Russo-Japanese War.
So what did President Obama do? The
statement says "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international
diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." What efforts? Apparently in
his case, its enough to shake hands with some dictators, ignore the
civil rights abuses of in some other nations, favor those who seek to
usurp democractically developed constitutions, and indicate that
abandoning those who have taken great risks to support you and your
country is now all that is necessary to be awarded the Nobel Peace
Prize.
Alfred Nobel is rolling in his grave.
For the record, Nobel Peace Prizes for Obama? One. Nobel Peace Prizes for Ghandi? Zero.
