President Obama has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.

On the basis of what?

The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a bit of a joke. It has been given to a number of shady characters, like Yassir Arafat and Jimmah Carter.

But this one, so to speak, takes the prize. It will be waved in the face of Obama’s opponents. Here, see, America is back! Back to appease.

The Nobel Peace Prize, is of course, not one of the “real” Nobel prizes. It isn’t given in Sweden. It’s given in Norway, and has often been influenced by the cynical, leftist politics of that country. Ronald Reagan, who did more to advance peace than anyone else of our era, by bringing the Cold War to a peaceful and successful conclusion, never was awarded the prize. It went to his counterpart, Mikhail Gorbachev, the Communist.

In 2002, when the prize was given to Carter, a member of the selection committee openly said that it was a “kick in the shins” to George W. Bush. That was a year after the 9-11 attacks, and Bush was trying to defend the United States against further outrages.

This is another kick in the shins to Bush, but, more important, it is a kick in the shins to that part of America that still believes we have work to do in the war on terror, and believes that the first responsibility of the president is to protect the nation.

It is a dangerous move by the Nobel Peace Prize committee. Obviously, it’s intended to put pressure on Obama to be like Carter, which is his natural instinct anyway.

Question: How can a man who’s just won the Nobel Peace Prize send 40,000 troops to Afghanistan? How does he send them before he goes to Oslo to pick up the certificate and make a “peace” speech?

It is a terrible day, in which the cynicism of European leftist politics embraces the most radical president we’ve ever had. The world will not be better for this award, and Barack Obama, already a supreme egotist, will see himself more and more as above the office of president of the United States.

Let us hope Americans catch on, and realize the hypocrisy and intellectual dishonesty of the moment.

Let us see it for the bad joke that it is.

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