Now For Something Unfunny About The Nobel…

Much derisive humor and sarcasm has, justifiably, been directed toward I, Barack’s Nobel (such as here, here, and here). But the more I think about it, there’s something seriously unfunny about this award. Most of the humor has pointed to the Prize Winner’s lack of accomplishments to date, but the fact is that He has done many things already. That’s the problem.

With Chinese pro-democracy dissidents being jailed while the Prize Winner turns his back on the Dalai Lama to please their jailers; with Iranian pro-democracy demonstrators shot down in the streets and others sentenced to death after revolutionary “trials” while the Prize Winner looks the other way and continues to make nice with the executioners; with a legitimate, democratic government in Honduras, protected by the army at the behest of the nation’s Supreme Court enforcing the Constitutional prohibition against the former president staying in office beyond his term while the Prize Winner and his (our) government punishes the legitimate government and supports the return of the deposed Hugh Chavez friend and wannabe, there is something not funny but downright offensive about this prize.

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  1. Constant October 12, 2009 at 8:03 pm | | Reply

    Remember Arafat got the prize, as did Carter. This sets up a pattern according to which Obama might have received the Peace Prize precisely because of the “accomplishments” you mention.

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