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The Nobel Peace Prize, already devalued, has sunk to a new low. This assessment has nothing to do with one's estimation of this year's recipient, President Barack Obama. Most of those on the left, with a few predictable exceptions such as the New York Times, regard giving the president the award as belittling him and the prize.
How did this happen? What was the Oslo Committee's motive?
They may be moral idiots, but they are not stupid: I believe that they had two clear aims.
One is to undercut American exceptionalism...
Why President Obama Was Awarded the Nobel Prize
I wonder who else was in the running for the Peace Prize that it devolved to a mere liberal President of the United States of America. What could those Swedes have been thinking when comparing Obama to such stalwarts for peace as Cheney, Rumsfield, etc.