He certainly rates an Honorable Mention, though.
South Carolina's legislators and others -- Walmart, Nascar and Sears to name a few -- have taken a brave and honorable stand (though it should have come decades earlier).
For now, though, an Honorable Mention is justified, for Obama finally realizing that he can either join in the fray and attempt to lead, or watch his poll ratings continue to sink as more and more of his base becomes seriously disillusioned with him.
I asked around, did a lot of research, and almost everyone I spoke to seemed to regard him as an honorable figure, even though he was a Baathist.
By Winifred Williams The New Yorker, November 6, 1943 P. 93 In our gray stone village, built on the stern Pennine slope of northern England, work is customary and honorable, so Walker Jim, though he had many acquaintances, had no friends.
And Nessa, though honorable to the point of obsessive, is not without her secrets.
He can do honorable things even though he's cutting and sarcastic.
Victory in a poetry contest is never unequivocal--hence the (sometimes inordinately) long lists of runners-up, finalists, and honorable mentions, as though any of these could easily have been the victor.
