Booby Prize…..

“This award — and the call to action that comes with it — does not belong simply to me or my administration; it belongs to all people around the world who have fought for justice and for peace. And most of all, it belongs to you, the men and women of America, who have dared to hope and have worked so hard to make our world a little better.” --- Nobel Laureate and sometimes president B. Hussein Obama

Idiot.

Before I knew much about women… I “dared to hope”; by 15 I realized that hope was worthless and it was action that took daring which led to success.

More seriously, “daring to hope” is not an American trait; it is not what built the greatest country the world has ever seen.

Former UN Ambassador John Bolton successfully heaped well-earned ridicule on the New Leader of the World as he collected the most recent charm for his ego bracelet.  Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey observes:

Bolton notes the trend of the Nobel committee in recent years to cheerlead political philosophies, especially to American voters, and gets to the heart of why many of us found the Peace Prize selection both risible and offensive. Risible in the sense that Obama had been President for 12 days when he was nominated and hasn’t accomplished anything on the world stage since — no new treaties, no peace brokering, and certainly no change in the Bush “war priorities” that they explicitly criticized when they awarded the 2002 prize to Jimmy Carter. Offensive in the sense that it smacks of lecturing America on our foreign policy rather than focusing on real efforts for peace, a number of which the Nobel committee overlooked, although by this point it’s so unsurprising as to be only barely offensive.

So what is Dear Leader doing to help him carry the dead weight of not just we U.S. slackers, but the entire world….?

Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) -- President Obama wanted to hold court with LeBron James. He made do yesterday with Cabinet officials and lawmakers.

In perhaps the most exclusive after-work, backyard basketball game ever, the president recruited players from the ranks of the executive branch and Congress to play on the converted tennis court on the White House’s South Lawn.

The group played 10 games over about two hours, with everyone switching teams throughout, said Representative Michael Arcuri, a New York Democrat and one of the participants. Arcuri, 50, was a forward on his high school team.

Heart warming… no?

Michael P. Leahy asks: Where’s Kanye West when you need him?

And it’s not gonna end for another three years.