Hey! Guess who won the Nobel Peace Prize? Yes, our president, who took office only two weeks before the nominating deadline. Very interesting. Let's be honest: Barack Obama won the Prize for not being George W. Bush. With less than half a month of presidential and peace-making experience, Obama got a prize for what it is hoped that he would do, rather than what he has actually done. Kind of the way he won the presidential election, on the basis of ethereal hope rather than cold, hard fact.
Mickey Kaus, writing in Slate magazine, thinks it would be a good idea for President Obama to decline the honor, for a number of very sound reasons.
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