Friday, October 9, 2009

Easy As Pie

Forgetting the fact that he's only been President for about nine months and hasn't accomplished anything good or noteworthy, let's focus on the fact that Obama was President for only ten days before the nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize had to be submitted. Unless he was God (which some people seem to think that he is) there was definitely nothing that Obama did that was worth winning this prize in that small amount of time. The reasons that the spokesman cited for awarding Obama the prize (stressing diplomacy, easing tensions with the Muslim world) are all things that happened well after that ten day window.

Never mind that his only contributions to foreign policy are to bow to the will of our enemies and abandon our friends (or in the case of the Iranian uprising people who wanted to be our friends), what this whole Nobel fiasco suggests is that, like his Presidential election, normal voting rules do not apply to Obama. Voter fraud occurred during the 2008 elections and that is a well documented fact. Then again there is the long shot possibility that Mickey Mouse is a real person and ghosts can somehow float on into a voting booth to cast their ballots without anyone so much as raising an eyebrow.

It can't be all bad, though. It just so happens that the Nobel Peace Prize is the same award given to Yasser Arafat, an infamous terrorist leader, in 1994. Given Obama's fondness for known, unrepentant terrorists and anti-American radicals I suppose he feels like he's in good company. Clearly Obama's not the first undeserving person to receive this award.

Judging by the new do-nothing standards I should be a shoo-in to win since I practiced defensive driving this morning. I saved myself a fender bender and an insurance headache. That seems far more Nobel worthy than jetting around the world and shouting from the mountaintops about what a terrible, horrible, no good place your country is.

Who knew that major lifetime achievement awards could be so easy to win...