From the LA Times:
"Excessive praise can be unwelcome and embarrassing. Just ask President Obama, who awoke Friday to discover that he had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize before he had completed even a year in office. Obama managed to be both abashed and appreciative in his response, but no amount of self-effacing spin can obscure the oddity of this award."
And:
"It's hard to escape the impression that Obama was honored because he isn't George W. Bush."
To paraphrase the late, great Daniel Patrick Moynihan: This is akin to "Defining Deviancy Downward." (The actions of the Nobel Committee in the past few years have definitely been a bit deviant.)
Read it all here:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-nobel10-2009oct10,0,1431554.story
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