The Nobel Foundation once again proves how ignoble it is by giving Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize.
By Selwyn Duke
Well, I guess we can say, blessed be the peace makers — because they
must be in darn short supply. That’s the only conclusion I can draw
when I hear that President Obama — the man who got fawning media
treatment for no reason, was elected with a thin resume and exalted
without even being a king — has now been given the Noble Peace Prize
for, it seems, allegedly having good intentions.
Among those expressing the idea that this was Obama’s sole
qualification was the 1984 winner of the prize, Archbishop Desmond Tutu
of South Africa. Gregory Katz at Google news quotes him
as saying, “In a way, it's an award coming near the beginning of the
first term of office of a relatively young president that anticipates
an even greater contribution towards making our world a safer place for
all. It is an award that speaks to the promise of President Obama's
message of hope.” Putting it even more bluntly, Massimo Teodori, billed
as a U.S. history expert, said, “For now it's still intentions rather than fully implemented policies, but they are deserving ones.”
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