Well, America's apologist in chief, Obama, is headed off to Norway to accept his Nobel Peace Prize.
Doin' that puts him in a bit of a pickle.
See, dispatchin' 35,000 of America's military to a foreign country for warlike activities ain't exactly viewed as peaceful by many folks.
Not to mention that there are bunches of folks who feel the awarding of the prize to a president who had been in office only 12 days when the decision was made is at best, puttin' the cart before the horse.
Seems the Nobel Prize committee has been criticised for awarding Obama the prize before he has any major accomplishments in peace (or anywhere else, for that matter).
Kinda like givin' the big rodeo buckle to a cowboy who's only just unloaded his horse from the trailer.
So his speech oughta be downright interestin'.
Now Obama's pretty good at usin' words instead of deeds to look important and effective.
But even a snakeoil pitchman like him could have a problem with this one.
It's probably a good thing that Obama will have the TOTUS (Teleprompter of the United States) along to help.
Apparently, he and the TOTUS were planning to work on the final draft of his speech on the flight from Washington to Oslo, and his acceptance speech is gonna directly address the irony of being awarded the peace prize while escalating the war.
Makes 'bout as much sense as tryin' to spend us out of a deficit.
Makes 'bout as much sense as tryin' to spend us out of a deficit.
This Oldtimer thinks we're seeing what we've seen before ... words contradictin' actions ... "all hat, no cattle" as they say.
'Member the jobs created or saved thing?
Good words, but no actual success.
'Member "if you like your current healthcare plan, you can keep it"?
Sounded good, but sure don't look like fact from here.
Now I'm not totally sure that this one hangs on Obama's bedpost.
He didn't go lookin' for the prize, and as shown by the facts, had actually done nothing to deserve it.
Fact is, a White House official said that it was not necessarily an award that Obama would have given himself.
So it falls on the Nobel Committee.
A group with judgement that is ... questionable ... at best.
These are the same blockheads what gave AlGore the same Peace Prize for his global warming farce in 2007.
At the time, they said they awarded it to him "for ... efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change ...", which when you look at what's going on with "climategate" of late, is actually pretty funny.
See, it seems like AlGore and his global warming buddies were involved with some serious book cooking on the scientific data they used to build their case.
They manipulated the facts to help "build up" their case.
They manipulated the facts to help "build up" their case.
That would make the Prize they won inappropriate, undeserved, and poorly judged.
A prize without substance.
Like puttin' a fancy dress on a shady lady.
Might make it look better or feel better, but really doesn't change anything.
Maybe the Nobel folks got it right with Obama after all.
“All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.” --- Robert Southey
"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time." --- Abraham Lincoln
