When you consider what follows....

[fpb]

...the award to Obama stops being a joke and becomes a scandal. Apparently, the defeated candidates included the following

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[expectare]

Wei Jingsheng is awesome!

[fpb]

Ah, but not as "promising" as the president.

[arhyalon]

Hear, hear. Well put.

Greg Mortensen is personal hero of mine. I'm a huge fan of his work...but I would have given it to one of the Chinese gentlemen, had it been me.

(Of course, I'm in China now listening to my new daughter chat on the phone with her girlfriend in Cantonese.)

[eliskimo]

Amen!

[ani_bester]

Oh god, yeah okay now this isn't just a "ok whatever," it's officially in the WTF range.

I know of people more deserving, but I dind't know the actual other nominees and HOLY CRIPES *sigh*

[becomethesea]

FPB, this might be a silly question--but what is your best advice to a young American in context of what has been going on lately?

I ask because I am thinking very seriously of getting out of the USA while I still have time. I don't know yet where I would go, but the future of the USA/its politics looks grim from my perspective.

[fpb]

The rest of the world is pretty much similar. Stay and fight for what you believe in. Not that I agree with your views, but they suit the USA better than most other countries.

[becomethesea]

Thanks. Also, they say if you're not liberal when you're young... :-)