President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Price this morning.
I’ve no idea why.
Actually, I do.
He’s not George W. Bush.
No, that really is the reason: I’m not being the least bit flippant or cynical. The Left in this country did a thorough and enthusiastic job of painting the former President as a monster and a warmonger, and of course, Northern and Western Europe were glad to accept that picture.
So, now we’ve got a more “cosmopolitan” Chief Exectutive, a man who pushed the Camelot image to the hilt in his campaign and promised to “reach out” to the world, and the navel-gazing Norse progressives couldn’t be happier.
After all, he buys fully into their pet environmental policies, soundly echoing previous winner Al Gore. He wasted no time in going on a world tour to apologize for our supposed failures as a country, going so far as to bow deferentially to Saudi princes. Never mind that we’re still in Iraq, long after he’d promised to remove troops, or that we’re still in the process of building troop levels in Afghanistan.
Nope. Apparently, he’s a man of peace despite this. Despite the ~150 other people who could have been chosen.
Many people are asking what he did to deserve this, and even among the Left, the answer is largely, “nothing.”
In fact, the answer is actually, “absolutely nothing.”
You see, the nominations are made February 1st. President Obama had only been President Obama for a few days. He didn’t have a chance to do anything.
This isn’t recognition; it’s cheerleading, or the most transparent and ridiculous sort. When it was awarded to Al Gore for his wildly inaccurate and discredited movie, I observed that the Nobel Prize had lost a great deal of credibility. If there was any doubt, today’s award certainly removes it.