Warring about the Peace Prize

If you can stomach it, there is a whole page of reaction at Memeorandum about Obama having received the Nobel Peace prize. The wingnuts are responding as one might expect with anger, mockery and revulsion. The media is busy telling us what it all means, offering unsolicited advice and the usual concern trolling about how this is going to affect his agenda. A surprising number of lefties are also buying into the "what has he done to deserve it" theme.

I did a long post at DetNews so all I'm going to say here is, change is one of those things that is hard to see when you're living in it. It's kind of like raising a child. When you're with them every day, you don't notice the little changes, but when the faraway relatives show up for a visit they're astounded at how much your little tyke has grown.

Yes, I know that we're still stuck in Iraq and Afghanistan and I'm not happy about it either, but I thinking it's probably harder to end a war than it is to start one. Especially wars begun premised on lies, with no clearly identified enemy or exit strategy and aren't even actually so much wars as military occupations. Particularly when one also entered office with an economy on the brink of total failure, an opposition party intent on fomenting civil discord, a media that encourages triviality and an agenda that includes making major social changes such as universal health insurance.

As I said at DetNews, anybody that thinks they can solve all those problems in ten months should run for president and show us how easily it's done. Otherwise, all I'm going to say is congratulations Mr. President. I, for one, am glad to have a president who works so hard instead of one that complains being the leader of the free world is such hard work.

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