Nobel Prize! OMG!

I'm sick of it. All of a sudden you care about the friggin Peace Prize? You say that it denigrates the award. Because you loved and respected it before, I'm sure. Like when Jimmy Carter won it? When Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin and Yasir Arafat won it? When the International Panel on Climate Change and Al Gore won it? When Kofi Annan and the UN won it in 2001, because you love the UN so much? Right. Friggin right! It meant so much to you and now it just rips up your heart that Obama got it before he actually did anything. Anything except replace Bush, which is bigger than you might imagine.

I'm sure you were waiting on the edge of your seat with your list of friggin hopefuls waiting to hear who would walk the Red Carpet. Or were you watching Fox News waiting to see what kind of s#@t they would throw at him next? OK, I get it. You're sick of him. You hate hope. You love big pharma and the insurance industry. Whatever. I don't care if Obama got it or not, but we should use it for all it's worth. It may have been an acceptance of the U.S. by Europe with the exodus of Bush. It may have been because the crazy Swedes wanted Obama to succeed, which could just be something important for the rest of the friggin world! But in any case, let it go.

You can say that Bush was attacked, so it's OK to attack Obama. You can make up whatever lies and spin you want to in order to discredit the man. But you cannot deny the vitriol that has been launched, not only against President Obama, but against, oh, say anyone who criticized the Iraq invasion. Remember the Dixie Chicks? Absolutely nothing like this is happening when the teabaggers bring loaded guns to rallies. When people are calling for Obama to be killed on FaceBook. Face it. You are disrespecting our country for political gain. Cindy Sheehan was protesting the war because she lost her son in an ill-conceived invasion. Protesting policy is different from ad hominem vitriol.

I won't argue that Ronald Reagan didn't win World War II single handedly, lead the Continental Army across the Delaware, and defeat the Soviet Union at the Battle of Perestroika. Whatever. But I'm sick of it.