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This morning in Norway, the Nobel committee awarded President Obama the Nobel Peace Prize for “giving the world hope for a better future and striving for nuclear disarmament”:

The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised Obama for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.” But critics, especially in parts of the Arab and Muslim world, called its decision premature.

Though this isn’t the biggest embarrassment for the committee, it certainly says that a formerly prestigious award is now a laughingstock in serious people’s eyes.

I can’t say this is the biggest embarrassment in Nobel history because giving the award to Mickhail Gorbachev while he was slaughtering dissidents within his own country was worse. Giving the award to Arafat while he lobbed missiles into Israel was a bigger embarrassment, too.
The AP’s Jennifer Loven, someone I’ve never agreed with prior to this morning, states the case against President Obama perfectly:

The prize seems to be more for Obama’s promise than for his performance. Work on the president’s ambitious agenda, both at home and abroad, is barely underway, much less finished. He has no standout moment of victory that would seem to warrant a verdict as sweeping as that issued by the Nobel committee.

I couldn’t say it better. This isn’t about something that President Obama has done. It’s about him winning another award for something he said, rather than on actually accomplishing something. More than anything else, this says that the committee shouldn’t be taken seriously. Talking about a nuclear-free world and about nuclear nonproliferation was all it took to influence this gaggle of idiots.

He has said that battling climate change is a priority. But the U.S. seems likely to head into crucial international negotiations set for Copenhagen in December with legislation still stalled in Congress.

And what about Obama’s global prestige? It seemed to take a big hit last week when he jetted across the Atlantic to lobby for Chicago to get the 2016 Olympics, and was rejected with a last-place finish.

Not only doesn’t he have a list of accomplishments, he’s got a modest-sized list of significant setbacks.

Perhaps for the Nobel committee, merely altering the tone out of Washington toward the rest of the world is enough. Obama got much attention for his speech from Cairo reaching out a U.S. hand to the world’s Muslims. His remarks at the U.N. General Assembly last month set down new markers for the way the U.S. works with the world.

NOW IT ALL MAKES SENSE!!! He won the prize for his worldwide apology tour. If you can’t win a formerly prestigious international award for badmouthing the greatest liberator of oppressed people in the history of mankind, what good is the international community?

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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

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