President Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize: GOP demands to see the Nobel Committee's Birth Certificate

When the news broke earlier that sitting American (or is it Kenyan or Indonesian?) President Barack Obama was bequeathed with the Nobel Peace Prize, I naturally assumed that Rush Limbaugh's head would explode and the republican party would be stuck with a gargantuan body instead of a party head. Moreover, I instinctively knew that the blogosphere would be buzzing with more republican and conservative invective than democrat or liberal encomium.


Am I really that prescient or do Republicans really hate Barack Obama that much they would put breathing oxygen in abeyance in order to vituperatively criticize President Obama? Hmmmm....

"This fully exposes the illusion that is Barack Obama,"
said conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh . "And with this 'award' the elites of the world are urging Obama, THE MAN OF PEACE, to not do the surge in Afghanistan, not take action against Iran and its nuclear program and to basically continue his intentions to emasculate the United States... They love a weakened, neutered U.S and this is their way of promoting that concept. I think God has a great sense of humor, too."

Oh Rush, did you run out of Oxycontin refills again?

While us rational Americans have grown accustomed to the bile invective spewed daily from Mr. Limbaugh more effortlessly than potato chip crumbs, some republicans decided that Rush Limbaugh is just too understanding and flirted with invective of their very own.

Eric Erickson of the ever-so enlightening Red State.com had these encouraging words to say,"did not realize the Nobel Peace Prize had an affirmative action quota." I believe Eric followed up by saying African Americans are America's dancingist rape folk while in black face.

Knee-jerk vitriol and racist commentary notwithstanding, the award is baffling some on the left as well.

Michael Mooore, for example, offered his congratulations but boldly declared action as well.

"Congratulations President Obama on the Nobel Peace Prize--Now earn it!" 'Freedom can not be delivered from the front seat of someone else's Humvee. You have to end our involvement in Afghanistan now. If you don't, you'll have no choice but to return the prize to Oslo.'

Indeed, Obama may have made lofty pronouncements such as closing Guantanamo, bringing the troops home from Iraq, want a nuclear weapon-free world, admitting to the Iranians that we overthrew their democratically-elected president in 1953, etc. But he has yet to follow through on those pronouncements with concrete action and, worse yet, is risking escalating a lost cause in Afghanistan by extending outstretched and vitiated troops in a purposeless battle.

Don't believe me, just click here to read about the growing numbers of troops suffering from PTSD.

I realize that President Obama is looking to make up for the fact that Afghanistan and the 'just war' was abandoned by the ruthless Bush Administration to pursue a petty vendetta in Iraq and make billions of dollars in no-bid contracts for their cronies, but 6 years have passed since troops were shifted away from that conflict and the situation has grown increasingly dire for our troops to win. After all, the primary objective for going into Afghanistan was to kill and capture Bin Laden and his key associates, disrupt their vast terror network, and prevent Afghanistan from becoming another hotbed for terrorism.

Has blowback and the situation in Iraq taught us anything?

We are not there to police a nation beset by tribalism and internal conflicts and expect to train a miserably incompetent army at the aegis of a corrupt government. Moreover, an army in which ultimately joins the Taleban anyway

Barack Obama winning the Noble peace prize--something that not even he expected--is certainly momentous and naturally is being lauded by the sane world. But is imperative that we do not allow ourselves to get stuck in the warm and fuzzy clouds of this achievement as we did immediately following the election of Barack Obama. We must ensure that President Obama does in fact earn this prestigious prize.