You deserve those compliments.

But it also earned kudos that have been withheld.

Of course, Gates and Buffett deserve praise, and we should certainly wish them well.

We also advise them to commend and flatter the Minister of Justice in their tweets

Obama was praised extravagantly a year ago 12 months on, the criticism is over the top, too.

The NTC s first prime minister, Mahmud Jibril, was praised by the international community for his vision.

Chinese audiences are as fed up with the glowing encomiums broadcast by CCTV as they are with the simplistic, context free reporting of Western media.

The policies and positions articulated by the new government suggest not so much the once vaunted Third Way (a slogan for the age of prosperity) as a carefully calibrated Middle Way.

Other senior Libyan officials suffer from the same managerial torpor. The NTC s first prime minister, Mahmud Jibril, was praised by the international community for his vision.

In Latvia, an artificial intelligence researcher in the University of Latvia's computer science department who earlier this year leaked confidential records on the income of bank managers has been praised as a modern Robin Hood, because otherwise the public would not have known how much some people were continuing to be paid while their banks were being bailed out with public funds.

It is perhaps the ultimate tribute to his commitment and tenacity that his efforts over the past 10 years have attracted criticism as well as praise, for he has stood at the center of every major campaign aimed at alleviating the economic ills of our generation.