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Time to quote myself again. Daphne’s news item is fast-becoming the big 72-point font headline of the day.
For those not in the know, Mister Wondeful in the White House has just won the Nobel peace prize.
He should be enjoying this kind of life. It’s to be expected. He’s offering people exactly what they’ve always wanted: A way to pretend they’re solving all the problems, while engaging in exactly the mindset that caused them in the first place.
History will record it that He won the Nobel first, and that is what inspired us to elect Him as our new President. And then he did all kinds of wonderful things to fix our economy, but something got in the way and kept it from working as well as it should have…although His Nobel-Prizey ideas did stop things from getting much, much worse. Just like LBJ’s Great Society, FDR’s New Deal and Wilson’s Fourteen-Point Peace Plan.
That is the litany. You read it here first.
Stephen Colbert once said “truth” has a well-known liberal bias. Yes, of course, he’s right…how can he not be. Liberal ideas never, ever, ever fail. They don’t succeed either, but they don’t fail. There’s always something else that jumped into the situation and messed everything up. Kind of like the “bubbins” of the family…every family has one…his repeated failures always expressed in passive voice. He didn’t lose his house, the man from the bank came and took it away. He didn’t fail at his marriage, his wife left him. He didn’t lose his job, the boss came in one day and fired him.
I think people can smell that kind of a “no-blame bubble” and react to it subconsciously…with “I wanna get in on this thing.” Nothing is ever Barry’s fault, so if you cast your lot in with Him, nothing will ever be your fault either.
Viewing it in that way, you realize — why, He really is a kind of a Messiah, in a sick sort of way. And He really does deserve to live a charmed life, and win every award that can be won.
So I’ll be saving all my outrage for other things.
And buying gold.
Update: Round-up by Byron York of the mainstream press’ reaction. They’ve been in the tank for His Holiness for years now, but even they are having a bit of a “Whaddya Thinkin’??” reaction to this.
Small-tee tim the godless heathen comments at Rick’s blog,
Somebody wake (or take me AA) me when this crap is over. Mmmm, mm, mm.
And I had to respond to that:
Respectfully disagree with small-tee tim. I want to catch every single instant of this. I want to TIVO it. We are learning things about human nature that are not often revealed…at least, not often revealed this starkly.
I babbled on for a little bit longer than I intended in Bullet Number One about How to Motivate Large Numbers of People to Do a Dumb Thing, Without Anyone Associating the Dumb Thing With Your Name Later On. The gist of #1 is this: Once people sit down together in a group to decide on something (especially when they’re voting on something, as a committee) the mission is no longer one of laboring to produce the best results. Instead it becomes the mission you remember from K-12: Try to get everyone to watch you when you feel like you know what you’re doing, and look somewhere else when you’re feeling like maybe you don’t.
It isn’t that “everybody” has all this hope in Barack Obama’s efforts, it’s more like everybody wants everybody else to know they have the hope…
The award decision itself is fantastic. In fact, it’s not enough. I think they should make this a special year and put out three awards. Just to make sure the message really gets out about how awesome they all think Barack Obama is. Make sure we really know what the Nobel committee is all about. Wear it on their sleeve. Don’t be shy.
That way, when history records all the situations that result — good or ill — from Obama stewardship and tutelage, future generations will know the Nobel committee was a zillion and one percent behind it all. Which if anyone has a brain in their heads by then, will benefit them immensely.
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FOR … F***ING WHAT????????
Jezuz, I’m starting to believe there IS a conspiracy, and I might have to start going to Church again. There are some eerie parallels to Revelation …
WHAT CONCRETE THING HAS THIS MAN ACCOMPLISHED, like EVER????
“Inspired hope”.
It reminds me of a demotivational poster I once saw, this worship of new – agey “believe” fluff.
It said
Get to work. You’re not being paid to believe in the power of your dreams.
- philmon | 10/09/2009 @ 06:52Please let’s continue to discuss how every society is a shame/blame society. I’ve heard it so many times in reference to (and as an excuse for the misdeeds of) the Muslim Community, but the question is why? Whomever decided to give BHO the NPP obviously wants to avoid at all costs being shamed as incompetent. The best way to do that? Go with the guy everbody says is so great – whether or not he’s actually accomplished anything. Then if (sorry, when) history proves you to be wrong, you can hide from blame in the “everybody else thought that” bubble.
And by the way, doesn’t it water down the prize even further when the assumption is that someone each year has advanced peace? If they were reaching so very badly with this pick, couldn’t they just say that no one deserved one this year, compared to other recipients?
- wch | 10/09/2009 @ 08:31Oh, one more thing: if Obama is planning on accepting this award on behalf of the American people, then I’ll take my percentage of the check, thankyouverymuch.
- wch | 10/09/2009 @ 08:33THIS JUST IN! Obama’s unofficial official pre-response to receiving the Nobel Prize!
- Steve Elmore | 10/09/2009 @ 08:46Well, he shares it with Yassir Arafat, Jimmy Carter, Kofi Anan …. Al freakin’ Gore.
Any more it’s an exercise in self-aggrandizing political correctness. But I repeat myself.
- philmon | 10/09/2009 @ 10:19Mo’s on a roll! More of Teh Funny with Lil’ O-Bama at http://www.christmasghost.com ! Hope ya’ll enjoy it!
- Steve Elmore | 10/09/2009 @ 10:35It’s not enough!!!
Do your bit, and pass it on:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Next-help-Obama-win-the-Heisman-63851657.html
- rob | 10/09/2009 @ 11:27He’s got it, Rob.
http://thehostages.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/everyone-gets-a-trophy/
- mkfreeberg | 10/09/2009 @ 11:44I’ve decided it’s all pretty damn hilarous. One of the best comments I saw left in a thread was in response to some lefty’s question wondering what Obama would do with the prize money:
“As for the prize money, I presume he’ll spend it having a fifth Gospel written telling us he’s God’s other son.”
- Daphne | 10/09/2009 @ 12:52The Gospel according to Ayers?
- philmon | 10/09/2009 @ 18:55