From my Friend, Steve Dubner

"Maybe it was because I saw the headline early this morning not on the N.Y. Times's website or the Wall Street Journal's, but rather on Google News. I instantly assumed that the Onion had successfully landed a story on the home page of that fine aggregator. "Barack Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize," the headline said. I chuckled, silently congratulated the Onion on its clever idea, and clicked the link."--Stephen Dubner, New York Times Web site, Oct. 9, 2009

And the hits just keep on coming

Ruth Marcus at WaPo

John Dickerson at Slate

Michael Binyan at the Times of London

Richard Cohen at WaPo

Even the Washington Post thinks BHO's Nobel is stoopid

From the very liberal Richard Cohen:

In a stunning announcement, Millard Fillmore Senior High School chose Shawn Rabinowitz, an incoming junior, as next year’s valedictorian. The award was made, the valedictorian committee announced from Norway of all places, on the basis of “Mr. Rabinowitz’s intention to ace every course and graduate number one in class.” In a prepared statement, young Shawn called the unprecedented award, “f---ing awesome.”

And it just goes on and on. The only real question left is whether or not BHO turns it down. Politically, it would be the right thing to do. However, my guess is that he's too vainglorious to do it. Everything is all about him.

An Affirmative Action Nobel Peace Prize

After reading this, I can't help but think that the good people at the Nobel Committee are giving their Peace Prize to President Barack Obama as an affirmative Action goodie. As others note, he hasn't really done anything.

I think this will be butt of even more jokes about his lack of accomplishment. But hey, he got a nice trophy.