Thursday, October 17, 2002
Carter’s Nobel: Jeff Jacoby says Carter should refuse to accept the Nobel Prize for Peace because of the anti-Bush comments made by Nobel committee members. Sorry, but Hub Blog can’t get worked up over this issue. Carter should have won the award 24 years ago for the Camp David Peace Accords, but he was denied the prize because he was a sitting U.S. president (though the committee at the time said he didn’t get the award because his nomination for the award was made too late -- yeah, right). Now the Nobel board is once again making its decision based on a sitting U.S. president, only this time in reverse: It gave the award to Carter, in part, to spite Bush. The Nobel board is an embarrassment, but Carter deserved the award 24 years ago and he deserves it today. The Christian Science Monitor did a fine job summing up the ‘Ignoble Nobel’ in this editorial.
