DAMNING AARON'S STAFF:

Obama has betrayed mission to forge Mideast peace (Gideon Levy, 10/11/09, Haaretz)

Oslo decided to change its ways and begin giving out deferred Nobel Prizes: Win now, pay tomorrow. There's no other way to explain the bewildering, not to say bizarre, decision to grant the Nobel Prize for Peace to Barack Obama. Just like the reserved, esteemed Norwegians on the prize committee, we here, sweating and bleeding, were overjoyed with Barack Obama's election as U.S. president - black, eloquent, enchanting, striking and promising. Many an eye welled with tears, from Jerusalem to Rafah, at his unforgettable inauguration address, and even as late as his Cairo speech we still clung to his beautiful words.

We here in the Middle East could not help but be impressed by the new spirit he ushered in. Negotiations with Iran, a handshake with Hugo Chavez, openness toward Cuba, tolerance toward North Korea and the cancellation of the missile shield in Eastern Europe.

Just as the Nobel was apparently not a joke, this doesn't appear to be a parody. This knucklehead actually thinks oppressors should be rewarded.

Posted by Orrin Judd at October 11, 2009 7:48 AM