Friday, October 09, 2009
You know what? When the radio snapped on this morning and announced that Barack Obama had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace I felt like I had won it.
It seems to me that the people who are responding to this in a negative way may not have a really good sense of how the United States is regarded by the rest of the world. Harold Pinter said aloud what many thought: "The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless...."
And now the world, or at least the Norwegian Academy, has said that Barack Obama is different. I think so too.
It seems to me that the people who are responding to this in a negative way may not have a really good sense of how the United States is regarded by the rest of the world. Harold Pinter said aloud what many thought: "The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless...."
And now the world, or at least the Norwegian Academy, has said that Barack Obama is different. I think so too.
// posted by Bill @ 12:33 PM 
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