horse of george

Obama picks up his Nobel Peace Prize today - when it was first announced the farcical absurdity of it was so astounding one quickly turned their back to it like to a bad joke one hopes to get away from - but now that the day is here I think I see what a mistake it was for him to accept the honour - he should have politely turned it down, that was the only honourable and, much more importantly, strategically sound thing to do with such a specious and tawdry attempt at manipulation - although I guess it's emblematic of his idea of leadership that he fancies the supposed brilliance of the coming speech will make everything seem right [regardless of him speaking of war as a necessary evil raised in defense of a common good, which I take it is a theme the speech did in fact broach - I mean, let's face it, for an American president, no matter how liberal he may be, to talk about 'peace' in terms other than that would have been ludicrous] [the honour bestowed is intended as a trap by those that dislike, distrust and disdain America, and even if you walk into it with eyes open, it's still a trap - you can only gain the appearance of twisting it to your advantage - or I should say to the advantage of a reasonable and well founded American foreign policy - which, having now read the speech, clearly seems to have been Obama's intention].