Nobels For Ding-A-Lings by Doug Wrenn

Nobels For Ding-A-Lings

By Doug Wrenn

October 10, 2009

In recent years I have viewed the Nobel Peace Prize as being akin to Confederate currency. Now I'm sure of it. In his address following being conveyed with the supposed honor, President Obama said that he didn't feel worthy of it. Brother, you said a mouth full there! Then again, considering it's been also given to the likes of Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, Kofi Annan, et all, perhaps Obie's in good company after all.

This vacuous backslap ironically comes right on the heels of "Saturday Night Live" doing a skit on how Obama has done nothing so far. Likewise, he was given the award for doing nothing. He attained the unanimous vote in early February, barely two weeks after being inaugurated. And that was even before he has officially accomplished nothing. But the Nobel folks say he was awarded for what he wanted to do. Really?

As if we didn't know that elitists of the Nobel Commission didn't have a leftist and anti-American agenda, this strikes a familiar chord to all those who desire test papers without red ink, let alone grades, Little League games without scores, and 2 + 2 = 5 as long as you tried hard and your sensitive self esteem is still in tact. If I was on the table about to be cut open, I wouldn't give a Confederate dollar (or a Nobel Peace Prize) to any cardio-thoracic surgeon with a poor track record, but tries hard and "wants" his patients to be well. For all you failed actors and producers who fell just slightly short of winning your desired award, step right up and help yourself to that Oscar or Emmy. It's OK, as long as you just want it.

Ronald Reagan, and (wince) even Bill Clinton did more for peace than this amateur narcissist with a teleprompter has even dreamed of yet. Meanwhile, this pathetic and empty suit whining America basher has traveled all over the globe accomplishing nothing, and has spewed more insults about his own country (Oops, sorry. I meant America, not Kenya), than Archie Bunker has spit out about all races and ethnicities combined. And let's face it, Obama is in. He's trendy. Not only is he President, but he's black (somewhat, anyway) and liberal, and in an era in which anyone who disagrees with this sycophant of Marx, protégé of Wright, product of Daly and student of Alinsky, is automatically a "racist." In a recent argument about Obama's policies, a liberal called me a racist until I told her that she didn't know what she was talking about and I twice voted for Alan Keyes. In typical Liberalesque, she aptly responded, "Who?" Let's face it, white conservatives are all pond scum, black conservatives are Uncle Toms, liberals are peaches and cream and black liberals are the filet mignon of the latest far left cause celebre du jour, and especially if Old Glory, who has brought more real peace to more lands and people, lies dead center in the cross hairs.

Obama acknowledged that he didn't deserve the so-called honor, but I don't recall hearing him say he would give up the money, about $1.5 million, not too shabby earnings for doing nothing. (I never previously considered ineptitude to be an economic stimulus package.) After Boss Daly gets his cut (plus an additional vig for his Olympics consolation prize), I wonder what the great Messiah will do with all that money for humanity, buy some poor person some health insurance maybe? If even he only moved his poor aunt out of her Boston area public housing project into better digs, I'd be impressed.

How one can sit in the pews for 20 years listening to Jeremiah Wright's vitriolic rants and then scoff up a peace prize escapes me. Sadly however, I fear that the alleged Commander In Chief will now be speaking even less frequently to his generals on the ground in Afghanistan and those poor outnumbered grunts desperately holding ground there to prevent another 9/11 from happening here can now dismiss their last vestige of hope for getting desperately needed back-up any time soon, and all in the name of "peace." I personally know one of those grunts. Go ahead, somebody tell me all about "peace." If there were an award for clulessness and rank naiveté, this guy would be the poster child as long his ears could fit into the photo, but despite his supposedly magnanimous and utopian view of peace, it seems that the memo has yet to reach hot spots and areas of heightened concern like Iran, North Korea, China or Russia, to name just a few.

Obie's domestic policies alone are the very antithesis of peace. By devaluing our dollar and bankrupting our economy, we'd be hard pressed to fight a war with Delaware right now, even with their favorite son, the happy little leprechaun with the hair plugs on his head and his foot perpetually in his mouth leading the charge, let alone a predatory, well armed and well financed power like China. In case we've lost sight of it, we manufacture far les than what we once did, which means we need that much more money to buy stuff to fight a war. We're losing money and the money we have is eroding before our very eyes, and then there's the question of who we buy our war materials from, our enemies perhaps? Just like liberals never define who "choice" is for when they speak of abortion in their usual cowardly and deceptive euphemistic code, I wish the Nobel ding-a-lings would define whom "peace" is for when awarding their so-called "peace prize' to someone. As Obie continues to placate Iran, its fanatical and Holocaust-denying Whacko In Chief continues his nuclear fireworks display. As he cuddles up to the Russians while purring about cutting back our nuclear arsenal, he is ignoring his command staff in Afghanistan while our gallant young men and women dodge incoming fire for their very lives and thus, ours as well. And as Obie and Michelle kick off their clogs and tiptoe through the tulips of Copenhagen while holding hands and nibbling on chocolate on a humiliating and self-aggrandizing celebrity tour across the pond gone bust, I can't help but think that peace means pretty much for the bad guys and not for us or for our allies. For the good of the country, Obie really needs to step down and John McCain needs to be sworn in immediately as his replacement. I know, McCain lost. (Acorn didn't back him.) But he really wanted to be President.

Obie also said he is accepting the award as a call to action. "Action?" This guy took the oath in January. It took this award to motivate him? What's he been doing all this time? Then again, from what we know of his agenda, I'm with Rush. I hope he fails, once he starts to actually do something, and maybe even accomplish something, that is.

If simply wanting peace is worthy of an award, then the Nobellians should build an assembly plant and start mass producing them now. As an early and very conservative estimate, we will probably need at least as many awards as we currently have swine flu vaccinations. That shouldn't be too hard. I desire peace, too, but unlike the Marxist In Chief, not at the cost of my own country. Instead, having now concluded writing this article, I'll simply settle for a Pulitzer.

After all, I really want one.

Doug Wrenn