Topic: Liberal Fascism
OK, I've managed to stop laughing long enough to post the news: Barack Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Since nominations for the award closed on February 1, this means that he is being recognized for the achievements of his first ten days in office.
No, seriously, I get it—I really do. President Obama is being honored not for anything he did, but for what he is, or rather isn't. He's not that oafish yet sinister, quasi-fascist neocon cowboy, George W. Bush, and that's enough, it seems, for the Norwegian Nobel Committee. Just by showing up on January 20, Obama clinched the award.
Indeed, in a subtle way, the Committee's decision is an insult to America. For quite clearly, Obama's Nobel Peace Prize honors all that America is not: left-leaning, post-patriotic, postmodern. What Europeans really like about the guy is precisely what is causing his domestic poll numbers to fall.
Besides being ridiculous, the award seems ill-timed. It comes at a moment when Obama is wrestling with the decision that may decide the fate of his presidency: What to do about Afghanistan? If he decides to accede to General Stanley McChrystal's request and send 40,000 more troops to the Afghanistan, how might that play in Oslo?
I suspect that even the Obama claque will be clearing its throat and shuffling its feet over this silly business.
