The Nobel Committee has awarded President Obama the Nobel Peace Prize. Apparently, Obama’s drop in approval ratings led the committee to decide that Obama needed a shot of self-esteem and a boost in the size of his personality cult.
But forget the man’s ego (and the world’s inverted moral compass) for a minute, and think about the man’s balls. That’s right, his balls. In his acceptance speech this morning, he said the award represents all of those working for peace and opportunity, and specifically mentioned activists working for democracy even though it puts them at risk. Pretty amazing to praise the same folks whom you’ve just abandoned in Iran by refusing modest funding to the organization that documents their persecution.
Here’s an idea for you, Mr. President. Take your prize money and give it to the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center. That should provide about half the funding you just refused them.
UPDATE: Nick Gillespie at Reason suggests Obama should decline the award “on principle” and one of his commenters takes it one step further: “If he accepts it, he is every bit the megelomaniac [sic] his worst critics say he is.”
UPDATE #2: Finally found a transcript of Obama’s acceptance speech. Here’s the passage I’m referring to (emphasis mine):
And that’s why this award must be shared with everyone who strives for justice and dignity; for the young woman who marches silently in the streets on behalf of her right to be heard, even in the face of beatings and bullets; for the leader imprisoned in her own home because she refuses to abandon her commitment to democracy; for the soldier who sacrificed through tour after tour of duty on behalf of someone half a world away; and for all those men and women across the world who sacrifice their safety and their freedom and sometime their lives for the cause of peace.
If you really care about those folks, Mr. President, send these folks the prize money.
UPDATE #3: Michelle Malkin is soliciting suggestions for what Obama should do with the $1.4 million prize.
