Nobel Prize for Peace... here we go again, and again, and again....

I wanted to write something witty and teasing about the recent decision of the Nobel Prize Committee to give the Nobel Prize for Peace to Barack Obama but I prefer to link to an exceptional post by the one man global content provider, Mr Mark Steyn.

But... one more thought about this "Prize"... I have an omen about the 2010 prize: Ahmadinejad... so much for appeasement boosting with a sprinkle of hopeychanging!

UPDATE 01: So the White House has declared that Obama said he accepts the Prize with "humility", yeah.... about that... it doesn't really work that way. Especially with the concept of "humility". You can be humble and behave likewise but you cannot preemptively tag yourself "humble" and expect people to stop judging on their own and use your suggestion instead.

UPDATE 02: About the "Wow!" supposedly pronounced by Obama at the moment of receiving news of the victory of the Prize; so the candidacy to the Nobel Prize had as a deadline a couple of weeks after he started to govern at the White House... So that probably explains the WOW, since this is a hopeychangey presidency then also the Prize must have been for having done nothing... Oh yeah... the Great Orator (except when the teleprompter is offline) talks and talks about milk and honey scenarios of peace, love and understanding... but what he's done is less than nothing, he literally screwed up the relationship with some of America best allies, while appeasing the worst dictators around,

Again Steyn is funnier than me:

I assumed this was a reference to his rip-roaring success in winning the Olympic Games for Rio, but as it turns out the deadline for Nobel nominations was way back on February 1st.

Obama took office on January 20th. Gosh, it’s so long ago now. What “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy” did he make in those first 12 days? Bowing to the Saudi King? Giving the British Prime Minister the Wal-Mart discount box of “Twenty Classic Movies You’ve Seen A Thousand Times?”

“Er, Barack, I’ve already seen these.” “That’s okay. They won’t work in your DVD player anyway.”

For these and other “extraordinary efforts” in “cooperation between peoples,” President Obama is now the fastest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in history. Alas, the extraordinary efforts of those first 12 days are already ancient history.

UPDATE 03: "I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who've been honored by this prize." - yeah...about that... I'm pretty sure that going on that road maybe one day he'll be of the same caliber of Al Gore, Kofi Annan, Jimmy Carter, Arafat... he just needs to take inspiration from Jimmy Carter and great advices from his foreign policies adviser (Zbgniew Brzezinski).

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