Posted on 10/10/2009 10:23:53 AM PDT by CTposterBoy
In recent years I have viewed the Nobel Peace Prize as being akin to Confederate currency. Now I’m sure of it. In his address following being conveyed with the supposed honor, President Obama said that he didn’t feel worthy of it. Brother, you said a mouth full there! Then again, considering it’s been also given to the likes of Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, Kofi Annan, et all, perhaps Obie’s in good company after all.
This vacuous backslap ironically comes right on the heels of “Saturday Night Live” doing a skit on how Obama has done nothing so far. Likewise, he was given the award for doing nothing. He attained the unanimous vote in early February, barely two weeks after being inaugurated. And that was even before he has officially accomplished nothing. But the Nobel folks say he was awarded for what he wanted to do. Really?
As if we didn’t know that elitists of the Nobel Commission didn’t have a leftist and anti-American agenda, this strikes a familiar chord to all those who desire test papers without red ink, let alone grades, Little League games without scores, and 2 + 2 = 5 as long as you tried hard and your sensitive self esteem is still in tact. If I was on the table about to be cut open, I wouldn’t give a Confederate dollar (or a Nobel Peace Prize) to any cardio-thoracic surgeon with a poor track record, but tries hard and “wants” his patients to be well. For all you failed actors and producers who fell just slightly short of winning your desired award, step right up and help yourself to that Oscar or Emmy. It’s OK, as long as you just want it. Continued at Radiofree West Hartford
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Sorry Doug.. Confederate currency is worth more than the Nobel Prize.
To say that President Obama has done nothing in the foreign area is untrue, and grossly unfair to all those who have actually done nothing. Since his election, he has been both busy and effective.
He’s gotten into slap-fights with the United Kingdom and Isreal, two allies previously so solid that it would have been hard to imagine this a year ago. He’s backstabed the Poles and the Czeks. He’s assured Mainland China that the United States would no longer be a bother about that tiresome “human rights” business, and his despite for human rights in Tibet and Iran has given them cause to know that he meant it. His support for the coup by the would-be “President for Life” of Honduras, and his opposition to the poeple who actually followed the law, and removed the userper, when the Supreme Court ordered it, suggests general support for tyrants and userpers, and opposition to actual laws.
His groveling has Iran, Al Quaeda, and Russia openly laughing at him, and, by extension, at the United States.
He has trash-talked the United States nonstop, damaging America’s standing both among the unreflective (who may actually believe him), and among the reflective (who note that the United States really elected this guy).
Giving a billion dollars in foreign aid to Hamas, is also indicative of, shall we say, a change in direction of US foreign policy.
Nations across the world, which used to believe that the United States could be relied upon, are now reconsidering their options.
Some of his activities in the economic arena have significant foreign relations effects, as well. The backward, largely communist nation of Mainland China is lecturing the United States on how to run its economy—with good reason, and I hope the United States takes their advice.
His pillage of General Motors and Chevrolet—not taking their money for the state, but giving it—and much of the state’s money—to his supporters in the union—sends a significant message to anyone overseas, who used to think that investments in the United States were protected by actual laws.
President Obama has done more to weaken the United States and its alliances, and to withdraw American support for human freedom, law, and human rights, than any president since Carter—and he’s just warming up.
The President’s actions call for praise and adulation from tyrants and terrorists across the globe. They also call for awards to be heaped upon him by those who are stupid enough to believe that the United States is the main cause of problems in the world—in which category, I suspect, the Nobel Prize Comittee is included.
Mark Steyn - October 2009
The ratings for the first fifteen minutes of SNL tonight are going to be off the chart!
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