Posted by: Tyler Rippeteau
Oct. 9, 2009
Screw the Olympics, how 'bout a Nobel Peace Prize for our president?
Yup, didn't see this one coming, but about an hour ago President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize.
When the rest of you normal people wake up, you'll see the news, but this is one of the advantages to being a bartender with a crazy schedule. I'm still awake, and I'm probably one of the few bloggers in America near my computer and TV screen at this hour. It's about 4:45 AM here in Chicago.
Amazingly, Barack Obama's Wikipedia page has already been updated, despite the fact that this announcement was made just minutes ago.
Not so shocking is the instant criticism from the right. Joe Scarborough is already yacking about how the Nobel Prize is no longer prestigious, that it is given to people who hate America, that Marisa Tomei did more to win an Academy Award for "My Cousin Vinny" than Barack Obama has done to win the prize, that if anyone should have gotten it, it is Ronald Reagan and that maybe, just maybe, President Obama would be worthy of this not-so-prestigious award in three or four years, but certainly not now.
That's probably an early look at the anti-Obama, anti-Nobel Prize rhetoric that is certain to come from the right. Any guesses as to which nutty right-winger makes the most insane comment about this? Click here or check out the right-hand column to vote in our poll.
Well, might as well stay up and watch us bomb the moon at this point.