The Nobel Committee lost its credibility when it started using the Peace Prize for explicitly political purposes … Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, Wangari Maathai, El Baradei, and many others over the years. Yasser Arafat was rewarded for his terrorism in 1994.
The Peace Prize has always been one of those fuzzy little accolades that can be awarded to anyone for pretty much anything, especially when it comes to “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples” and such other non-quantifiable contributions.
So it should come as no surprise that Barack Hussein Obama is the latest laureate. Quite frankly, any Democrat succeeding GWB would have won the same. Or a goat for that matter. Even a martian. R2D2.
UPDATE: So, the head of the Committee says:
“It was because we would like to support what he is trying to achieve”
People “try” to achieve a lot of things. They should be encouraged to do so, but awarding them even before they have accomplished even a single thing is quite wrong headed.
Obama is not a kid who needs to be encouraged to study and “try” to do well on exams. Obama is the President of the United States – an entire nation depends upon him. He just can’t “try” to achieve something. He bloody well has to do.
Morgan Tsvangirai, one of the most popular nominees with a record 205 commendations, should have been awarded for his efforts to stabilize Zimbabwe. Obama is all talk, while Tsvangirai is actually toiling despite constant death threats.
