Of Course

Saint Jimmy has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Since his royal ass kicking courtesy of Ronald Reagan, Jimmy has made a habit of chumming it up with all the world's great (or at least remaining) dictators, from Arafat to Chavez to Castro. He's also grown increasingly criticial of his own nation over the years. And the Nobel ImpotentEuroWeenies apparently like that:

"It should be interpreted as a criticism of the line that the current administration has taken," Gunnar Berge, chairman of the Nobel committee, said in Norwegian. "It's a kick in the leg to all that follow the same line as the United States."

This, from the group that awarded Palestinian butcher Yassir Arafat the prize.

It's too perfect. Really.

(Update) Orrin Judd argues that Hamid Karzai would have been a good choice. Indeed, he would have been, were the Nobel a serious prize awarded by serious people. That ended when the award went to Arafat. I'm going to have to adopt the term used by one of Orrin's commenters: the igNobel Peace Prize.

[Posted at 06:43 CST on 10/11/02] [Link]