How Noble

Good God almighty! Barrack Hussein Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize this morning. Ten months into a presidency that has just recently drawn criticism for having done absolutely nothing, the idiots in Stockholm couldn't resist giving the award to the most ridiculous recipient since Yassar Arafat. Apparently repeating a lot of empty cliches and not being George W. Bush was all it took. Jimmy Carter has got to be kicking himself. He spent ten years building houses and compromising world wide security with his counterproductive visits to North Korea to get his. Of course, they are both chasing Al Gore who also has an Academy Award and a Grammy to boot. Broadway is still trying to figure out a way to slip him a Tony. As the only living Democrat president to not win it, Bill Clinton is on suicide watch.

The Nobel awards for the sciences have retained a modicum of impartiality, due to the fact that they have to deal in facts. The prizes for Peace and Literature have no such constraints, and have simply and blatantly been un-American for years. When they gave it to Jimmy Carter, the message was, "You shouldn't have thown him out for Ronald Reagan." When they gave it to Al Gore, the message was, "You should have elected him instead of Bush." And today the message is, "You finally got it right!"

Here's a trivia question. From what speech does the following quote come?

"The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, ..."

That would from Harold Pinter's acceptance speech for the Literature prize in 2005.

And then there is this quote from the man in the street:

"Obama won? Really? Wow," said David Hassan, 43, of Pine Brook, New Jersey. "He deserves it I guess, he's the president. He's a smart guy and I guess he's into peace."

Well there you go.

I think it will now be safe to refer to this award as The Nobel Prize for Left Wing Politics. Seriously. There is no connection to "peace" at all. Carter got it for being openly opposed to the policies of George W. Bush. Gore got it for producing a movie about global warming! Yassar Arafat got it because he said he'd stop blowing up innocent civilians, even though he did nothing of the sort. Betty Williams got it despite saying that she'd like to kill George Bush, twice. Meanwhile, Mohatma Ghandi never got one.

A Swing and a Whiff

When it comes to things that really matter, liberals are always quick to be on the other side of the United States. If you’re talking about energy consumption, they’ll recite statistics to show that we consume a disproportionate share of the world’s resources. Rather than seeing it as a result of our superior accomplishments, they view it as proof of our avarice. If you were to point out the technological advantages that US citizens enjoy, they will try and make you feel guilty because there are so many poor souls in Africa that have never even seen a computer. The average person in the US who is living below the poverty line, has a car, a color television, a VCR and air conditioning. But to liberals, where that line sits on the continuum of lifestyles from destitute to luxurious is of no interest. The very fact that there is a “poverty line” and that some are below it is more than they can stand. Everyone else should be hanging their heads in shame at their embarrassment of riches.

All of which makes their attitude about the 2016 Olympics, that much more befuddling. Now don’t get me wrong. When I put the Olympics into the category of things that don’t matter, I mean really matter. Yes, where they are, does matter. It’s always a huge boost the local economy and infrastructure. And I am a sports fan, although I have given up hoping to see more of those sports that I prefer to watch such as boxing and judo. I’m afraid we are permanently condemned to watch every single second of figure skating and “women’s” (they’re all girls) gymnastics.

But this morning Chicago was shot down as a site for 2016, despite a personal appearance and appeal from our Apologist in Chief himself, Barrack Obama. But this is one case where we truly have had more than our fair share. In the modern era, there have been 29 summer Olympics and 20 winter games. The US has hosted 4 summer events (St. Louis, Atlanta and Los Angeles twice.) North America has had six (Montreal and Mexico City.) Out of only twenty winter events the US has hosted 4 times (Salt lake City, Squaw Valley and Lake Placid twice.) North America has hosted 5 (Calgary) but that will be six after Vancouver in 2010.

In the meantime, South America has never hosted either games, even once. And if there was ever an event that should carry an element of socialist “spread-the-wealth” thinking, it would be the Olympics. It’s truly international, and again, it really doesn’t matter. It’s mostly all about national pride anyway, and liberals are never proud of the United States, particularly when we are doing something obnoxious like winning a disproportionate share of the medals, like we usually do. Well they were devastated today when Rio got the nod. But I feel that’s mostly because Obama took it on as a personal mission, and they are deeply invested in BHO’s success of failure.