Barack Obama? Really?
I consider myself a pretty loyal Obama supporter, but I have to say I was baffled by the Nobel commission’s decision this morning to award him the 2009 Peace Prize.
My initial reaction was to look at the calendar. Is it April 1st?
Obama’s a good guy and I think he’s sincerely committed to repairing the damage that George W Bush did to the international community. Still, Obama needs to prove that his approach can bring results. There are plenty of other, more deserving candidates out there.
That said, the caterwauling from the right wing should be amusing. They went bonkers when Al Gore won in 2007. In fact, many wingers at the time said the Peace Prize should have gone to George W Bush, for his wildly successful invasion of Iraq..
The Nobel Peace Prize isn’t often awarded to people for invading other countries, or for irony, so if nothing else it would have been an out-of-the-box choice.
Which brings us, inevitably, to this:
