[Spiff]

A spokesman for the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation said that neither the council nor Bush had any way of knowing that the person they were honoring was a condemned multiple murderer.

This is identical to what is happening with the murderous thug being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Just being nominated doesn't mean a thing other than someone filled out the paperwork and submitted it.

[cgk]

Exactly right. :)

[Moonman62]

"Tookie" Williams, a California Death Row inmate who has written a series of books warning young people against the gang life.

I think they are all titled "Join a Gang and I'll Crush Your Skull."

[Prime Choice]

This is identical to what is happening with the murderous thug being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Just being nominated doesn't mean a thing other than someone filled out the paperwork and submitted it.

Speaking of which, a local radio talk show host (Bill Handel) got the nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize, too. It's really burning the biscuits of the "Save Tookie" crowd. It was a brilliant move that totally invalidated the whole "Nobel nomination" crap that the liberals were parading around.   :o)

[ErnBatavia]

It took a bit of a search, but his Nobel nominations have come from some member of Swiss Parliament, with the rest from two professors at Notre Dame and Brown University.