Rewarding Europe's favourite American
By The Editors - Thursday, October 22, 2009 - 3 Comments
Obama’s Nobel Prize is hasty, incongruous and an embarrassment to all involved
Nineteen times in the past 108 years there was no winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. This includes the First and Second World Wars, when it was obviously impossible to present such an award, as well as other years when no suitable candidate was apparent. This should have been one of those years.
Barack Obama’s 2009 Nobel Peace Prize is hasty, incongruous and an embarrassment to all involved. Its only function appears to be the foisting of hypocritical European ideals onto American politics. As such, we could have done perfectly well without it. Continue…
