ESSENTIALLY, HE'S EMBARRASSED THAT THEY THOUGHT LIKE HIM:

A Prize Too Far: The Daily Beast's award-winning columnist delivers a message from President Obama to the Nobel committee: Thanks, but no thanks. (Christopher Buckley, 10/10/09, Daily Beast)

I don’t know the Norwegian words for “Let’s get real,” but I tried earnestly to convey in plain English that awarding me the Nobel Peace Prize, at this stage of my presidency, opens the Committee itself to the charge that it dispenses its gold promiscuously, without regard to actual accomplishment.

Pity poor Mr. Buckley, the UR is undeserving of the Prize for the exact same reasons he was undeserving of the author's vote.

Posted by Orrin Judd at October 10, 2009 11:49 AM