As I “tweeted” shortly after hearing the news, we have now entered a truly fantastical world of wonder. President Barack Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. This is after hardly ten months in office, and with the nomination process closing two weeks after his inauguration.

I was watching the “Today” show this morning as the news was breaking, and even Matt Lauer and David Gregory — with august liberal media credentials tucked permanently in their wallets — were visibly incredulous. Lauer said to Gregory something to the effect of: “So, let’s be honest — he’s really getting this award just for not being George W. Bush, right?”

The Nobels have been a politicized joke for a long time now, but this is the bright red cherry on the cake. It’s “LOL” time, squared.

It’s said he has been given the award for his efforts at “non-proliferation.” It’s true that he is working towards an agreement with Russia to reduce the stockpile of nuclear weapons which that country and the U.S.A. possess. But of-course both of those countries have had nuclear weapons for the past sixty years without using them. Meanwhile, ten months into his presidency, the Iranian and North Korean nuclear programs are just ten months more advanced than they already were. Iran promises to wipe Israel off the map. North Korea threatens to wipe just about everybody off the map every few days. The neighbors of both countries have increasingly good reason to develop their own nuclear weapons. Non-proliferation? Where’s that going on?

With unemployment barely under ten percent in the official, low-balled figures, and rising by the day, this award will not improve Obama’s standing with the American people. With the economy still fundamentally in free-fall, he devotes his efforts, domestically, to a huge reorganization of the health care system that Americans do not want, and to a plan that will increase electricity and other energy costs for ordinary people across the board (“cap and trade”). The poor get poorer, and increase in numbers daily. Obama cares about saving the Earth (and even if you believe the global warming hokum, his costly plan will do just about nothing to avoid it), taking over health care, and disposing of American nuclear weapons which threaten no one who doesn’t deserve to be threatened.

A Nobel Peace Prize at this juncture crystallizes the growing perception, even among many of his erstwhile supporters, that this is a man who has been given way too much credit for way too little achievement. During the election and through his presidency so far, to be sure, but likely during his life generally. The prize is a funny joke, and it brightened my morning, but it is a joke that I believe will quickly turn sour for most beside the reality of what is transpiring in America today.

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