Nobel for Obama .... What A Joke

Nobel laureate Barack Obama appeared in the Rose Garden this morning 42 minutes late. The news conference at which the president humbly accepted the Peace Prize was supposed to start at 10:30. At 10:15, aides said it would start at 11. The hour came and went. At 11:12, the president emerged from the Oval Office.

Apparently, he wanted more time to, you know, accomplish something.

That's a joke, one of many making the rounds today. For the folks at the Texas Republican Party, though, the awarding of a Nobel Peace Prize to a president with far more plans than successes, who'd been in office 10 days when the nomination deadline arrived, is an occasion not just for jokes but for outright sarcasm.

To wit:

• The president loves basketball. "Maybe the NBA will name him this year's MVP...."


• "He drives a car. Perhaps Motor Trend will name him Car of the Year."


• "...Perhaps a Pulizter [sic], or a Nobel for literature, will come his way."


• "The president is known to like pie. Perhaps he'll win a blue ribbon at the Illinois State Fair...."


• Surely a Cy Young, a Heisman, a Vince Lombardi trophy, and the America's Cup will take their places on the president's mantle soon. And his Tour de France shirt and US Open blazer must be in the mail by now."


• Or maybe "the NASCAR Sprint Cup, because no one turns left like President Obama."

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