A once-noble (or is it “once-Nobel"?) institution, the Nobel Peace Prize, has been so degraded by cheap far-left politics and stupidity that it’s a wonder anybody still takes it seriously.  The awards could just as easily be determined by the wing nut readers of Daily Kos, Huffington Post, or any other group of naifs whose view of America (and secondarily of Israel) is somewhere between cynicism, mistrust, and outright hatred.

In 1994, the Nobel Committee awarded the prize in part to Yasser Arafat, a lying murderous terrorist who never renounced his desire to push Israeli Jews into the sea.

In 2002, they awarded the prize to Jimmy Carter, one of America’s leading foreign policy idiots and probably its foremost apologist for Palestinian terrorism in particular and anti-Semitism in general.

In 2005, they awarded the prize to Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, a man who has consistently understated how close Iran was to producing a nuclear weapon and now a man who is reported as saying “Israel is the number one threat to the Middle East", thought it’s not yet 100% clear that the Iranian news agency didn’t invent the quote. Unfortunately, it’s all to easy to believe he would say it.

And, in 2007, the Nobel Committee awarded the price to Al Gore and the IPCC, namely a group of people who lie about scientific data in order to make money by scaring the world into thinking that humans are responsible for climate change.  Al Gore is a guy who said that it’s OK to lie to his audience if that’s what it takes to convince them.  He’s a guy who got a Nobel Prize for a mostly fictional movie posing as a documentary.

After Al Gore, I thought the Nobel Prize couldn’t because any more transparently political or any more worthless, but today they’ve outdone themselves by awarding the 2009 Peace Prize to Barack Obama.

The Nobel Committee said the award was for for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”

But what exactly has Barack Obama done?  Oh, I know, he’s gone around the world apologizing for the country he clearly dislikes almost as much as his friends in Tehran and Venezuela…and his own cadre of White House czars…do.

Obama hasn’t actually strengthened anything (except possibly the Russian position in the world) and he’s been in office for less than a year.  He’s being scolded for fiscal irresponsibility and/or international affairs irresponsibility by France, Germany, Poland, and others.  Obama, like Gore, is not a force for good or for truth. He represents the anti-American and anti-capitalist views of the European elites who select the prize winner, emphasizing, as if it needed more emphasis, that Americans should be extremely skeptical of both Barack Obama and the Nobel Prize.