Posted by
Bill Crawford on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 10:27:59 PM
Let me start by stating that I think Obama was as taken aback by all this as the rest of us were. He showed a genuine humility in accepting something he clearly didn't think he earned yet.
The Nobel standards are still there in most of the categories, especially math, the sciences and medicine. The Peace prize has been a joke for over a decade. If Jimmy Carter and Al Gore didn't devalue it, giving it to Yassir Arafat turned it into farce. That was as bad as the UN allowing Libya to sit in on their Human Rights Commision.
Liberals here idolize Europeans because they share so many standards. In this case, if your intentions are good, who gives a whit if you've actually accomplished anything? This sort of mentality is what allows hellholes like Bosnia and the Sudan to become bigger hellholes, under direct UN supervision.
Because if your heart is in the right place, you can't possibly be held responsible for genocide, right?