Nobel but not noble
A few years ago Al Gore was awarded a Nobel prize. This was a nadir for the history of the award. The presentation of this previously prestigious award to Al Gore proved that all one had to do to win the award was to by a hypocrite who was made famous by issuing half truths and hyperbole.
This award was an insult to all who had won or even been nominated before hand.
I thought at the time, that after this low point in the history of the award it had nowhere to go but up. But, my mistake was in forgetting that humans have a knack for surprising disappointment. The recent actions of the Nobel Awards Committee in honoring Barack Obama with the once prestigious award proves that all one has to do to win is Nothing. Isn’t there some famous quote that goes something like “All that is needed for evil to win is for good men to do nothing”. Well it looks like evil triumphs. Not that I am calling Obama evil mind you, but he certainly isn’t a good man. If he were even a half way decent human being he would decline the award and say quite simply “I hope I have the chance to win this again when I have earned it”. Of course we know he would never say that. After all anyone who is so arrogant as to think they can sway the votes of the IOC into choosing a particular city obviously isn’t too in touch with reality.
There were several hundred other more qualified nominees who were over looked but if I think just a little out of the box I can think of one individual far more deserving than Barack Obama for the Nobel Peace Prize. That person would be President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Yes Mr. Ahmadinejad has an idea for peace that requires the elimination of all Zionists and the entire Zionist state (READ: Israel) and obviously that is unconscionable but you have to admit that at least he has a plan, where Obama has NOTHING. Even the Israeli foreign minister agrees with the Iranian president saying that there will not be peace in the middle east read the article from the BBC here so if Israel isn’t doing everything possible to achieve peace and Ahmadinejad has a solution that will result in peace than by the demonstrated criteria of the Nobel committee he should be given the award. After all isn’t any plan regardless of how unethical better than Obama’s NOTHING.
I have to ask . Is the Nobel prize now a consolation prize for ignorant politicians who have already failed or are destined to failure ?
I truly feel sorry for the people of Norway who have been embarrassed by this pathetic lack of judgment of a once august body. Poor Alfred Nobel must be spinning in his grave to see what the heirs to his legacy have done.
We can only hope that maybe someone such as Bill Gates or some other wealthy individual will create an award system of their own design and we can say good bye to the Nobel. Let them put it to bed before they devalue it any further.
Awarding Al Gore the Nobel Peace Prize rendered the value of said prize to next to nothing. Awarding Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize literally and inarguably rendered the value of the prize to NOTHING !
