Just Sick, that's all. Just Sick

So it seems that President Barack Obama can win a prize simply by being Barack Obama. He is the 2009 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for doing absolutely nothing but having a vision.

Vision? Everybody has one of those. Vision alone merely allows us to see the skyline, not actually affect it. Isn't action what's supposed to count? Even his friends in the media are boggled by the choice. Reuters concedes that he "...has yet to score a major foreign policy success after nearly nine months in office,". Nine months? Seeing as he had to be nominated before February, in all of 11 days in office before then he couldn't possibly have even partially enunciated any policies aimed to create peace let alone actually achieve something. The closest he came was in signing the order to close GITMO, and that is proving to be precisely the debacle his adversaries said at the time that it would be. Signing a paper ordering an impractical event is nothing short of useless pedagogy.

To be fair, he appears to be properly humbled by the awarding of the prize. But the message, even not of his making, is there. The world thinks that all we Yanks need is a bit of seeing things their way, never mind that such an, ahem, worldview is every bit as arrogant and self serving and they accusing us of holding dear.

The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the President is nothing less than insult to the American character. It is time to tell Oslo where to get off: preaching to us is nothing less than hypocrisy. And such a thin, shallow veil they wear.