If you haven’t heard the news, President Obama just won the Nobel Peace Prize. Let that sink in and when the confusion has passed, come on back.
Ok. I felt the same for a few minutes this morning. This is like giving the Lombardi Trophy to Pete Sampras. Or maybe like giving a catcher in the minors the Cy Young.
But after the shock wore off, I realized this is a step in the right direction for The Nobel Foundation. They are used to giving the peace(!) prize to people like Yasser Arafat, a purveyor of war and suffering. So to give it to the neutral and unaccomplished Obama is an improvement. Next time around, maybe they’ll actually award it to a deserving group like the pro-liberty Chinese dissidents commemorating 20 years since the Tiananmen Square Massacre. Enjoy this choice line from that two-day-old article:
U.S. President Barack Obama is thought to have been nominated but it’s unclear on what grounds.