Posted by
ParallaxAdHoc on Saturday, October 10, 2009 10:29:10 AM
The POTUS 44 has brilliantly succeeded on what he promised on inauguration day: to remake America in the image of Europe, to be acceptable to the rest of the world, to project the image that is acceptable to the United Nations. With his winning of the Nobel Peace Prize, this inaugural promise has been signed, sealed and delivered with a flourish. Now we Americans can be oh, so proud that we have become as sophisticated and civilized as Belgium.
The last U.S. President to receive a Nobel Peace Prize was James Earl Carter who shared the award with one of the greatest ambassadors for peace of them all, the late Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini, popularly known as Yasser Arafat. Maybe from here onwards, for the sake of civility and sophisticated decorum, it behooves to formally call the POTUS 44 as Barack Hussein Obama al-Indonesia al-Columbia al-Chicago Abu-Malia Abu-Sasha.
The AP White House Correspondent Jennifer Loven was impertinent enough to ask wherefore the Nobel Peace Prize? Well, let us venture to count the ways:
1. For apologizing at every opportunity for all that America traditionally stood for, the bastion of freedom and liberty and the successful champion in defense against Nazi fascism, Japanese militarism, and Soviet Communism.
2. For groveling to the King of Saudi Arabia, for palling around with Hugo Chavez, for being deferential to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Kim Jung Il, Moammar Gadhafi, and the Castro brothers Fidel and Raol while dumping on Israel.
3. For buying up toxic assets with taxpayer dollars and for successfully mortgaging the future of generations of Americans (our grandchildren) in the name of ‘spreading the wealth around.’
4. For institutionalizing within the Federal government the reign of all sorts of czars, more numerous in a mere nine months than Russia had established through centuries of history.
5. For worshiping in the altar of environmentalism and adopting global warming prevention as a matter of national policy, with the ‘cap and trade (read, cap and tax)’ legislation, lending legitimacy to the notion of “carbon footprint,” no matter that it can bankrupt the domestic energy industry.
6. For attempting to nationalize the health care industry thereby assuming life and death decisions over each individual American.
The litany can go on but it requires more intestinal fortitude than I can muster. For the fawning millions swift in the vainglorious tide of the cult of personality engulfing the Oval Office, the award might represent an endorsement of their adulation. It might cause the tingling in Chris Matthews’ legs to evolve into an epileptic spasm worthy of a commercial segment in CNN.
The deeper and more sober question is: can this Republic muster enough resilience so as to not allow the tide of vainglory induce an enduring institutional paralysis that would jeopardize our historical claim to be the last best hope of man on earth?