October 12th, 2009
Some on the right took pleasure from the left’s (mostly) stuttering unbelief last week concerning the president’s Nobel Prize. Many seemed to believe that the left’s lament–“this is crazy, he hasn’t earned it yet“–could be the first rumblings of a breakdown of the Obama myth. I don’t know that I entirely agree.
Jay Cost and Steve Sailer hit on the truly unmentionable lens through which the prize could well be viewed: That the award was entirely in keeping with Obama’s entire career history and that, in any case, he is not “less qualified” to have a Nobel today than he was “less qualified” to be president in 2008.
In a sense, cleaving to “he hasn’t earned it yet” is actually a defense of Obama, in that it’s a stance that allows his erstwhile defenders to avoid a more critical position. Also, I might well agree with Galley Reader C.L. who wrote in to suggest that at the end of the day, the Nobel stands on its own, becoming not a bug, but a feature. Instead of reminding voters of how unqualified Obama is, it becomes a listed qualification.
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