The Swedes diviners!

This posting, might be of interest to your readers:

In 1944 a Swedish economist by the name of Gunnar Myrdal published a seminal work on race relations in the US titled, An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy. Over six decades later we have a black man of African descent running for the highest office of the most powerful nation on earth. Will the dilemma at long last find a historic resolution? Has Western democracy matured to a point of accommodating aspirations of black people?

The Swedes seem to have an answer to all that. They answered that by awarding the Nobel Prize to another economist by the name of Paul Krugman. Mr. Krugman, if you ever read the New York Times, is the guy who consistently tried to straighten president Bush on his 'misguided' economic and political doctrine. And Krugman supports Barack Obama. Go figure.

The award could not have come at a worse time for the Republican Party nominee John McCain. The economy is in shambles. As a top economist, Krugman has said, McCain is "more frightening now than he was a few weeks ago."

Well, the Swedes must have divined it. The award is typically shared by two or three researchers. Why couldn't the Nobel Committee wait a little longer until they found at least a second researcher to share with Mr. Krugman? We believe $1.4 million is more than enough for two in these financially trying times. By their timing the Swedes seem to have been in some existential hurry to realize the overdue quest of their countryman, of blacks, White America, and modern democracy itself. We wish them luck.