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Nobel Prize: Pressure for our president on climate change, foreign aid
Friday, October 9, 2009 at 2:38PM Commentary by Kay B. Day
Pundit Joe Scarborough's colleagues claimed a 'senior level' White House official called Scarborough an "a-hole" after the pundit satirized the Nobel Peace Prize award for President Barack Obama.President Barack Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize—if you are just learning about that, you have been isolated from the world since early Friday morning. Already conservatives are having a field day with satire and statists like the netroosters at Daily Kos are running headers stating, ‘Conservatives stand with Taliban against the President [sic].’ Nobody ever said politics had to make sense, but a little backtracking and reflection proves the award makes great sense.
When you consider past recipients and co-recipients, begin with former vice-president turned green financier Al Gore. A company backed by Gore just received more than half a billion federally manufactured taxpayer bucks to build green cars at the tune of $89,000 a pop—in Finland. Presidential disaster Jimmy Carter also received the award and even the committee may not have a clue as to his deserts. Thus we must admit to ourselves that of that high level Dem trio, Obama’s prize makes far more sense than the others.
Additional past recipients include oil-for-food-scandal-plagued Kofi Annan, former front man for the money-grubbers at the United Nations and Cordell Hull who big-tax-big-government president Franklin Delano Roosevelt called the ‘father of the U.N.’, leading me not for the first time to wish a ‘father’ had refrained from civic copulation resulting in the birth of yet another agency hostile—even damaging—to U.S. interests.
Obama’s fellow recipients aside, we must remind ourselves this high profile award for a president who has served less than a year in office carries unspoken but perfectly logical past and anticipatory quid pro quo.
Europe is threatening the U.S. if Congress doesn’t pass Cap and Tax (aka HR 2454). Note to Homeland Security: put Europe on the extremist watch list.
Russia is eager to see our country back off defense and things are a lot chummier between our countries since we chunked our missile plans.
Our government sends foreign aid to numerous countries who, reliant on that aid, not only want more but refuse to take responsibility for their own governments. So-called developing nations blame us for everything from typhoons to tsunamis, logic be damned. If the porridge is overcooked or the goat goes lame, it must be the fault of the U.S.
In addition, Obama has followed former president Bill Clinton, the afore-mentioned Gore and numerous other Democrats in portraying America as the cause of all the world’s woes, but handing over funds in the guise of foreign aid. Foreign countries love Democrats--it pays to do so.
Muslim extremists are arguably going a little easier on our current president than on our former president, quite possibly because suddenly, the administration sees the Taliban, trampler of even basic rights for women and children, as not so bad after all. No one’s concerned about stoning a few females because they got themselves raped. And no one in Washington is concerned the Taliban defiantly harbored a terrorist who killed more than 3,000 Americans. We are apparently quite expendable, especially if we're females and there's not a viable feminist around who will speak up when dastardly acts occur.
By the way, next time you want to know the truth about the Taliban, talk to refugees who left Afghanistan once the Russians retreated and America exited after providing billions of dollars, direct military assistance and training to defeat afore-said Russians, all covertly of course.
It is this small government conservative’s opinion the Nobel Peace Prize for our president makes perfect sense. Now he must figure out how to appease our numerous ill-wishers, and the prize shines a bright light straight down at the White House. For political neophytes, this is called political leverage and that is usually followed by the record tax increases Democrats love to enact.
Thus we wish our president the very best, and a measure of good luck with that quid pro quo as well. Perhaps he could donate the prize money to offset the deficit, in effect instituting a 100 percent tax on himself, something the Democrats in Congress have lusted for as a matter of policy and tradition, as long as it's Main Street money of course.
Reader Comments (3)
And let's not forget Palestinian terrorist Yasser Arafat's Nobel Peace Prize.
And the fact they snubbed President Ronald Reagan. That, for me, pretty much tanked any respect for the prize. At least the prize for peace.
I say that awarding Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize based on his intentions is about as worthwhile as awarding a high school student the Medal of Honor because he plans on joining the Army.