The big shocking news of the day is that the Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded President Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize. And, of course, the critics of the president want to know what he’d done in the last ten months to deserve such recognition.
The Committee praised Obama for:
- Starting nuclear disarmament talks.
- Consulting with the U.N. and international communities before bombing invading new countries.
- Inspiring an emotion (hope) without instituting a nonfluctuating color chart.
So, in other words, not only were the current batch of peacemakers kind of inactive, but the last president made this one look so damn good.
We’d like to congratulate the Nobel Committee for reaching such a decision, but what about prizes for the people that elected him? Hope’s pretty shallow in a square office, if you know what we mean. (Obama does.)