[drbuzzard]

They gave O a Nobel prize for breathing. Do you really imagine the award committee has any standards whatsoever?

[wattsgnu]

they have liberal standards, so, in other words, no, they have no standards.

[originalbuckeye]

I knew the Nobel Prizes were nothing but political when Jimmy Carter was awarded the Peace Prize in 2002, partly for negotiating the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty with N Korea. Within weeks of receiving the award, we were informed that N Korea had nuclear weapons. And Arafat's Prize?? You have got to be kidding me. Nobel (hopefully) has been spinning in his grave after those choices. (But maybe he was a Leftist and would have enjoyed the hypocrisy)