When Words Fail

WSJ: AWARD OFTEN TINGED BY POLITICS
MICHELLE: FINAL NAIL IN THE NOBEL'S COFFIN
GIVING THE NOBEL TO OBAMA PROVES PRIZE IS MEANINGLESS, OBSOLETE

PRIZE FIGHT

"GASPS ECHOED through the Nobel Hall in Oslo yesterday as Barack Obama was unveiled as the winner of the 2009 Peace Prize, sparking a global outpouring of incredulity and praise in unequal measure.

"Mr. Obama was sound asleep in the White House when the Norwegian Nobel Committee made the shock announcement. It said that he was being honoured for his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples”.

"In a clear swipe at his predecessor, George W. Bush, the committee praised the “change in the international climate” that the President had brought, along with his cherished goal of ridding the world of nuclear weapons."

While Kofi Anan and Desmond Tutu praised this year's Nobel to Obama as creative, Lech Walesa former Polish President who won the Peace Prize in 1983 responded:

“So soon? Too early. He has no contribution so far.”

Ridding the world of nuclear weapons sounds like a worthy idea and who is against such an idealist goal? However, in the real world where the nuclear cat is out of the bag, and countries like Iran and Venezuela are chomping at the bit for the bomb, promoting Obama with the Nobel is a major triumph of diplomatic lunacy and appeasement over history and reality. Time will prove this premature adulation a folly of the highest order. Just wait and see.




PICTURE WORTH A MILLION WORDS. Add the Nobel to his growing list of his other recent awards including: Two Grammy Awards, best spoken word albums, Dreams of my Father (2006) and The Audacity of Hope (2008), Daytime Emmy Award, the Yes We Can speech set to music (2008), and finally Time's Person of the Year (2008).

Obama's Mantra: YES WE CAN.......WIN AWARDS!

A few choice quotes:

Obama is becoming Jimmy Carter faster than Jimmy Carter became Jimmy Carter.

---Erick Erickson, conservative commentator

Apparently Nobel prizes are now being awarded to anyone who is not George Bush.

---Ana Marie Cox