OH, COME ON…
What a way to destroy a brand and take any small bit of prestige it may have had - after the laughable award given the carnival barker, Al Gore - the Nobel Prize committee has taken an extreme measure in their efforts to turn the name Alfred Nobel into a political punch-line with the award of the Peace Prize to a politician with no experience and no accomplishments, save one.
Barak Obama’s only effort as a peacemaker - that concluded with questionable results - in his brief time in office, was the Beer Summit held in the White House garden. And most thought that effort was beneath his office.
The very fact that the prize committee could not find a credible nominee that has earned their award speaks loudly to the corrosive deterioration of the name Nobel brought about by the cheap political masquerade that now speaks for that institution..
A best of the best, in the eyes of this staid body, consists of a money-soaked hypocrite - the climate huckster Gore - who is a slovenly energy glutton and carbon producer - who demands great sacrifice from the “little people” while he excuses himself from any inconvenience by taking refuge in the fantasy land of carbon offsets, a contrived insult to logic, that in the bizarre self indulgent world of the wealthy, allows them to behave as pigs.
Now, a freshman President through no fault of his own has the thing foisted on him in a move even he himself finds incredible. President Obama handled it well, aware of the awkwardness of the distinction, and qualifying the award as a “call to action” to all nations.
Oslo it appears, has some pondering to do.