Nobel Peace prize for the lyrical declamation of the faith

In past comments I have claimed that the essential requirement for membership of the dominant political class in the West is the constant declamation of the dogma. You don't have to do anything; you just have to declaim loudly the prescribed views about climate change, homosexuality, abortion, etc, etc. To declaim otherwise is to brand yourself as a secular heretic and excite the disgust, ridicule and rejection of the faithful. Even if you scramble to adjust to an acceptable declaimed position, you will not escape permanent suspicion. No such thing as confession to purify you of the sin and start anew in the faith.

During the US presidential campaign Barack Obama treated the world to an exhibition of PC rhetoric never heard of before, reaching an ethereal stratum and convincing the faithful that a messiah had come amongst them. Never mind that he had little experience in government, or had hardly shown himself competent in the skills of government. It was his lyrical speeches that mesmerised everyone.

For the Nobel Prize committee who clearly audit the speeches of the world for the purest declamations, there was no contest this year for the Peace Prize. Barack was their person. That he had done nothing other than run a political campaign and win the US presidency was of no account.

Unfortunately for them, Obama is not stupid. He may have a talent for the rhetorical phrase but is not part of the fantasy world of many of his uncritical followers. He saw the incongruity of the situation he was unexpectedly landed in. I wonder what he said about the Committee to Michelle in the privacy of their rooms. It was a prize that would please his enemies more than him?

Monty Python could not set up gig more strange than Peace Prize winner Barack Obama accepting the prize, pointing out the obvious about not having done anything for it, and then go on to lecture the Committee and his audience about the necessity of war in some circumstances.

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