Just when you thought Obamamania could not get any more ridonkulous, the Nobel Prize Committee goes and awards Obama the Nobel Peace Prize for…uh…well, nobody really knows exactly why....


The citation claimed it awarded Obama for his approach to diplomacy, or for making some nice speeches about diplomacy, or something like that.

It is all very odd, given that the (once) prestigious award has typically gone to people who have actually accomplished something. Nelson Mandela spent decades in prison during his campaign against South African apartheid, and Martin Luther King, the civil rights martyr, fused Ghandi’s pacifism with Jesus’s social justice during his successful nonviolent movement against segregation.

Obama has…um…well, he’s not Bush, right? He, um, he held a beer summit. He has ended the wars in Iraq and Afghanist---oh, never-mind, actually he's contemplating escalating the Afghan war. Well, at least he has successfully negotiated the denuclearization of Iran and North Korea…oh, wait actually his Presidency has emboldened both nations.

Well, at the very least, Obama has ended Bush-era civil liberties abuses like FISA wiretapping, and the Patriot Act…no. No, wait, he’s actually in favor of extending both. But wait! He’s closed Guantanamo, right? Er…no, he is actually decided that Guantanamo will be open indefinitely until he decides what to do with the prisoners.

Hmmm.

Well, I am sure Obama will do something to deserve this prize, eventually. In the meantime, maybe he should be given a Pulitzer Prize for literature. I mean, he has written two autobiographies! And, maybe he can win the Lifetime Achievement Emmy for his press conferences, no? What about a second Nobel Peace Prize next year if he does not get in a fight with his mother-in-law for the next eleven months?

This article appeared in the Orlando Examiner