Digg this
Obama is now the recipient of the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize, just 9 months into his term as president. According to the committee the award is for the president’s:
Extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.
I’m trying really hard not to focus on the fact that the award was given for “effort”. I guess managing to take Hillary Clinton out of the Senate and placate her is worth something to the Norwegian committee. But I digress.
Twenty years ago the award was given to the Dalai Lama for good reason:
In recognition of his nonviolent campaign over nearly 40 years to end China’s domination of his homeland.
There are plenty of reasons why it’s utterly ridiculous that the President was awarded a peace prize, but I have a different story to focus on. This prize comes less than a week after President Obama REFUSED to meet with His Holiness the Dalai Lama on his visit to Washington. The reason:
In an attempt to gain favor with China, the United States pressured Tibetan representatives to postpone a meeting between the Dalai Lama and President Obama until after Obama’s summit with his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao…The U.S. decision to postpone the meeting appears to be part of a strategy to improve ties with China .
This makes President Obama the first not to welcome the peace prize winner to the White House since the Dalai Lama first began visiting our nation’s capital in 1991.
But wait! What’s that? Obama wanted Bush to boycott the Olympics in China? Back on the campaign trail Obama and his homegirl Mrs. Clinton called on President Bush to boycott the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony in protest to the repression in Tibet. They said:
If the Chinese do not take steps to help stop the genocide in Darfur and to respect the dignity, security, and human rights of the Tibetan people, then the President should boycott the opening ceremonies.
Apparently trying to piss off China with a boycott then appeasing China by refusing to meet with arguably one of the world’s most peaceful people, all while winning the Nobel prize is all just part of the job. I think we owe our diplomatic leaders a big round of applause.
Our favorite mercury poisoned martyr, 
But if you’re the POTUS and the FLOTUS, exploiting your own children to promote the healthcare agenda is no big deal.
You might be a little worried that the federal debt is in the trillions (that’s this many zeroooooooooooos), and since that number is growing rapidly the Senate must consider legislation to raise the federal debt limit beyond $12.1 trillion by mid-October. This is due to the President’s fat budget of more than 
It’s probably a little karmically questionable to pick on a man dying of brain cancer, but I just can’t let this one go.
