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I went to bed last night stumped as to whom exactly to give the award (or non-award) for the week. But this morning upon hearing this news there was absolutely no doubt.

This was an incredibly boneheaded move on the part of the Nobel committee. As I said on Twitter this morning, this is the Nobel Committee’s equivalent of the hanging of the “Mission Accomplished” banner, 2 months into a war that’s going on six years and counting. I suspect - or, rather, hope - that President Obama would privately agree with me.

I don’t care who’s president, and what party they belong to: no U.S. president has a list of accomplishments worthy of this award with less than a year in office under their belt. I’d say this even if that president personally discovered a cure for cancer during his first year.

The Nobel Committee cost itself a vast amount of legitimacy (the ultimate prize, according to the true reading of Niccolo Machiavelli’s 16th century work “the Prince”).

In the past decade I had justified to myself the reasons behind the Peace Prize award given to President Carter (he’s in my view one of the best ex-presidents we’ve ever had) and Al Gore (for playing the part of a necessary Cassandra on global warming). Now it’s evident the Nobel Committee is nothing more than a wing of the Democratic party. Awarding this so soon for so little measurable success on Obama’s part does nothing else but cheapen the award for future recipients.

So as much as it pains me to say it, conservatives, you were right all along about this one.

(image: Matt Brunson)

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