I open up the Irish Times and what's the headline?
Barack Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize for talking up nuclear disarmament.
Yes.
The man who hasn't actually done anything concrete, but who makes the most brilliant speeches, was awarded a prestigious prize for words. There is no action behind it.
The committee believes that he's put in an extraordinary effort towards international diplomacy. I guess they really liked his endless apologizing for all America's excess and greed and general evil when he was last in Europe.
Mr. Obama has been trying to get the warring parties in the Middle East together, just like every other U.S. President since Jimmy Carter garnered a handshake across the divide. There's no peace there, of course, and anyone with a sharp eye can see that there's not to be peace there, but over in Oslo they think that talking a good game is proof enough that a man deserves a prize.
What makes it all the more shocking that is I can't say I heard the slightest whisper from the touts at Paddy Power, laying odds on who might be awarded ten million crowns by the King of Sweden.
We're all blindsided by the news, and the conservative pundits are going to have to scramble like mad to prepare lists of other, more deserving, individuals who should have been given the award.
At last. A respite from the health care debate.
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