Posted on 10/10/2009 1:02:39 PM PDT by VoiceOfBruck
Bruck’s message to President 0bama:
Give it back.
My first thought upon hearing that President 0bama had won the Nobel Peace Prize, or, I should say my first rational thought was, “couldn’t they find anybody who’s actually done anything for peace or human rights in the last year?” Well, of course there are many people working on various fronts, in the less sexy places of the world, toiling thanklessly against the ravages of poverty, genocide, human trafficking, and other scourges of the human condition.
Perhaps in a future column I could highlight some of our modern human rights warriors whose efforts are all the more thankless, having been overlooked in favor of a naïve and egotistical politician whose only real accomplishment to date has been to not be George W. Bush, but that’s not my point today.
Today I just want to say, give it back. That’s right, give it back. My curiousity was piqued when I heard that the president claimed to be “humbled” by the award. Humbled? Humble would be to realize that he didn’t deserve it, and that there are probably hundreds or even thousands of people who work actually does merit such an award. But that’s not why I’m suggesting he give it back.
The rationalization from the purportedly unanimous Norwegian committee was that our president has changed the atmosphere of negotiations for world peace blah blah blah to be honest I didn’t catch all of it – my internal BS siren drowned out the rest of their statement. But even the most ardent sycophants in the media concede that the president hasn’t really accomplished anything yet on the world stage, although they unanimously agree that he will someday.
Someday. Things will go as the Nobel Committee wishes someday. But not yet. So they give the prize in order to communicate and reinforce their wishes as to how diplomacy should be carried out, by giving a prestigious and world-reknown prize in advance. To all but the most hardened Chicago politician, this is known as bribery. A group of Norwegians has just bribed the leader of the free world to carry out diplomacy and state affairs according to their worldview. And he took their bribe.
I don’t expect our president to understand this; his grasp of subtlety seems to be profoundly lacking, and he seems to have stopped maturing politically and diplomatically at about his sophomore year of college. So I’m not expecting him to understand why; I’m just simply saying:
Give it back.
Enjoy!
Marry me.
Wow, a comment from the venerable Lazmataz!
I’m humbled.
The people who do the heavy lifting in charity rarely if ever get recognition. They are the ones who really care. They aren’t in it for the money, fame or notoriety.
It is always the front man who talk a good game that gets the rewards and accolades. The definition of an Altruist. They are in it expressly for the money, fame and notoriety.
I say give the Nobel to ACORN instead, for all their hard work liberating those poor underage girls from Guatemala so they could come here to be prostitutes and learn to keep their mouths shut about it.
Well done... I enjoyed it.
He won’t give it back, there is no real man in him. It’s too late anyway.... he’s already made himself the laughing stock of the world. Oh, he knows he’s being laughed at, but he still sees himself as Superman, but that chip on his shoulder is his Kryptonite and he has a glass jaw. The day that glass jaw gets shattered, and it will, I am going to buy an expensive bottle of wine and eat something fattening.
This entire sham reminds me of “pay to play” politics, but in reverse.
Frankly, I wouldn’t put it past this worthless egomaniac to have had himself nominated..... such trinkets, even when not earned, are important to this phony jerk.
Hey.....It’s not every day you win a Nobel Peace Prize! :)
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