Is there a Nobel Hate Prize?

The President of the United States has just won the Nobel Peace Prize. And the angriest yowling about it is coming from within the United States itself.

See anything a little off about that?

Put aside for a moment whether or not he should have won. Ask yourself: what must this fuss look like objectively?

To have an American President win the award for the second time in a decade; and to have a vocal minority of the country not only fail to take pride, but choose also to denigrate the honor, and degrade the value of a 114-year-old institution for giving it to someone they don’t like.

Who hates us most? Ourselves?

This has gone past childish, into schizophrenic and self-destructive.

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