Oops, sorry...my mistake. This piece of crap article was written by Time's managing editor,
Richard Stengel who apparently considers himself to be a Constitutional scholar because he was once the president and CEO of the
National Constitution Center.According to his bio, one of his greatest accomplishments while at the NCC was the creation of the Liberty Medal. And in case you didn't know:
The Liberty Medal is an annual award administered by the National Constitution Center of the United States to recognize leadership in the pursuit of freedom.
A partial list of award winners:
Jimmy Carter (1990) for his work toward stamping out the very existence of the only true democratic nation in the middle east.
King Hussein of Jordan (1996) for actively promoting freedom and liberty and stuff in his autocratic regime.
CNN International (1997) for actively promoting the left wing point of view.
Kofi Annan (2001) for overseeing the murder and rape of hundreds of thousands of Africans who wished they had liberty and freedom.
Hamid Karzai (2004) for posing as the head of the freedom and liberty lovin' Taliban haven known as Afghanistan.
Bono (2007) for just being a really cool dude who cared a lot about AIDS and Africa and stuff.
Mikhail Gorbachev (2008) for being everyone's favorite communist despot.
Steven Speilberg (2009) for making ET and because O'Bama just wanted a photo op with him.
Tony Blair (2010) for being the Democrats' favorite liberal British prime minister.
Robert Gates (2011) for killing lots and lots of non-freedom and non-liberty lovin' terrorists.
Roughly a two thirds of the Liberty Medals have been awarded to non-Americans and a lot of the award winners are arguably enemies of freedom and liberty. But then O'Bama got a Nobel Peace Prize on the come and has spent all his time since working toward earning the first annual Nobel War Prize so really not too surprising when you think about it.
You will also note the absence of Ronald Reagan's name from the list. Gorbachev, yes. Reagan, no. Makes perfect sense if you're a lib.
Also GWB is not on the list. Karzai, yes. GWB, no. Again, makes perfect sense if you're a lib.
Also not on the list is "the American Serviceman." CNN International, yes. American soldiers/airmen/sailors, no. Makes perfect sense if you're a lib.
So you can easily see why Richard Stengel, Constitutional Expert, is so very proud of this award that he got credit for creating.
BTW, Stengel's bio is very proud of his magna cum laude graduation from Princeton and his subsequent Rhodes scholarship. Not so proud of his major or his degree since it isn't prominently featured anywhere. That's usually a pretty good indication of a solid liberal arts degree in something totally useless like English or Literature. Maybe even something really crappy like the arts.