Ralph D. Stampone thinks those who scoff at President Obama's Nobel Prize are just plain meanies ... or worse:
Sen. Orrin Hatch is one of the few Republican voices thus far praising the nomination.What’s going on here? Doesn’t this posturing suggest that any stance by the president, whether for the good of the country or not, will be criticized by Limbaugh and his sycophants?
Or is the latent racism coming to a head? I’ll never forget the statement of a tennis pal, “Ralph, I'll never get used to having a black man in the White House.” Isn't this what many short-sighted Americans are?
When will the U.S. mature into an all-inclusive nation?
Maybe the US will "mature" when people like Ralph can be a little more objective and perhaps realize that just because a [half] black man is now president, criticism of him does NOT have to be race-based.
The fact is that Americans across the political spectrum thought it was, at the very least, premature to award the Nobel to Obama. The president himself even said that he really didn't deserve the award. What else can be said to that? Those who think the award was ... deserved are as ideological as those Stampone laments (like Rush Limbaugh).