Thursday, December 10, 2009
Most of the great wars of the 20th century were fought against those who were convinced that “the human condition can be perfected.” - VDH
Posted by: Jude at 1:45 PM

 President Obama accepted his premature Nobel prize with a 4000 word speech that hit all the familiar marks of his previous speeches.  Victor Davis Hanson parses it over at NRO.  Obama: “But we do not have to think that human nature is perfect for us to still believe that the human condition can be perfected.”  Are fools ever born this way, and on and on until the end of man?  Obama spoke today as a sort of philosopher king, something our society is specifically set up to thwart.  Philosopher kings are for despotisms, not nations of free men, but then, Obama's audience today wasn't really the crowd of one-man-one-vote, was it?

A good friend of mine is over in Oslo as part of the entertainment entourage accompanying our President, and I am sure he will have been moved by the final section of the speech, where Obama re-coins the golden rule as "the law of love."  Just please, God, don't let us hear that schoolchildren are soon referring to doing-unto-others-as-we-would-have-them-do-unto-us, as Obama's Law of Love. 

Oh, and he could have refused the award and only accepted it in the names of human rights victims and imprisoned political dissidents around the world.  Imagine if he had read off a list of 2000 names from countries far and wide...might have been more than just the emperor's clothes.