Obama's piece


The Nobel Peace Prize continues sliding to irrelevance

I stopped paying serious attention to the Nobel Peace Prize years ago when Yassar Arafat won. After all, it was an "open secret" that the man had ordered the assassination of an United States Ambassador. That is not exactly a rousing endorsement, even if it was overlooked for "diplomatic" reasons.

And then Al Gore won for a piece of film propaganda so biased that even if you accepted it's central premise, the film routinely exaggerated it's warnings by a factor of ten or more. Ocean levels rising by ten or twelve feet? That's just alarmist even if the rest of his "facts" could be verified.

So it didn't exactly surprise me when the grand and glorious Imperious Leader won. Although as nearly as I can tell, he hasn't actually done anything.

Then I remembered this bit I wrote some time back.

Since intentions matter often matter more than results, solving the problem isn't as important as either defining your victimhood or showing the proper concern and sympathy. Whenever possible, the problem shouldn't be solved (and should be prolonged) just so people can stay victims or show compassion.

This introduces yet another politically elite class who derive their social worth by defining the victimhood of others.

Under that classification, Barack Obama "deserves" the Nobel Peace Prize. Not because of anything he has done or is going to do, but because of the noises he makes and the "concern" he shows.

Obama's Peace Prize says more about the prize than it does him.

I agree that he should have shown some class and declined the prize because he hasn't actually done anything yet to deserve it. The first person I read who suggested that isn't exactly part of the "vast right wing conspiracy."

— NeoWayland

Posted: Mon - October 12, 2009 at 12:49 PM  Tag


 ◊  ◊   ◊  ◊ 

Random selections from NeoWayland's library


Pagan Vigil "Because LIBERTY demands more than just black or white"
© 2005 - 2009 All Rights Reserved