The Nobel Peace Prize

Have some people no sense of shame, of self-respect? How else to react the the Nobel committee giving the Peace Prize to BO? Didn't they know/realize they would become laughingstocks to the majority of people? Of course, maybe they don't care??????

But, let's get serious. Even the left is left scratching its collective head. An Amherst classmate of mine, self-described as a "big Barry supporter," wrote, "I don't get it." A left-wing blogger wrote he thought he was reading The Onion! http://lefti.blogspot.com/2009/10/i-swear-i-thought-i-was-reading-onion.html

Where to start? Let's see, Algore, Yasir ("That's My Baby"), and now BO--I'll give, albeit only reluctantly so, you Carter. C'mon! Other than the money involved, who with any sense of self-dignity would accept such an ignominious award after what's been going on with it? It relates back to what I've blogged and written about--people who really deserve such accolades will now be looked upon with suspicion. Who can trust that someone who wins this award really has earned it?

BO was "nominated" two weeks after he was inaugurated. C'mon.... Even Saturday Night Live has made fun of BO for not doing anything yet. (It's really a pretty funny skit.) "I haven't done anything yet...."

Has the Nobel Peace Prize become irrelevant? Mother Teresa, Ralph Bunche, the American Red Cross, Amnesty International, etc. are tarnished and besmirched by this.