The Sad New Criteria for the Nobel Peace Prize

Sit for 20 years in the pew of a church with a pastor that says "God Damn America" and deny you never knew about his dangerous and subversive hate speech.

Ignore the man you picked to lead a "war of necessity" and endlessly debate whether to unleash a surge of troops or pull out, while the troops who volunteered to defend your way of life die.

Release 78 terrorists from Gitmo, where they couldn't hurt anyone, into the wild so they can turn around and plot evil schemes to kill you and the people you purport to lead.

Give millions to known terrorist organizations, like Hamas.

Go to the U.N. and call for a new world order that ignores nation sovereignty.

Refuse to salute the flag, on stage, in public.

Stop wearing an American flag lapel pin because it has become a "substitute for true" patriotism.

Bow to a muzzie king whose country has secretly funded global jihadist anti-American terrorism for decades.

Sit silent while a murdering Marxist dictator lambastes the United States for nearly an hour.

Stick your head so far up the rear-ends of two other murdering Marxist dictators, Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro, you taste their food before they do.

Start disarming your country's nuclear stockpile and stop missile defense plans while turning your back against a rogue nation that murders its own protesting citizens and denies the Holocaust and threatens to wipe your ally off the face of the map and tells lies that their uranium enrichment program is only for purposes of nuclear power.

Say your country has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive toward its allies, then turn around and show arrogance and be dismissive, even derisive toward its allies.

Cross-posted at Feed Your ADHD.

The New Malaise

Obama's aura is no longer adored.

He's become a ghoulish specter, an incarnation of dread that haunts our prospects for progress, infects our anxiety when we balance our checkbooks, clouds our ideal of the future.

After 9 months in office, all he's accomplished is pain ... or ... as my friend Amusing Bunni commented at my blog the other day ... he's "destroyed the economy, sucked up to our terrorist enemies, demoralized the CIA and the military, sent us marching towards Marxism faster than shit through a goose."

He's not the anti-Christ, as some have posited.

He's the antithesis of everything that America stands for: freedom, rugged individualism, (genuine) optimism, truth, compassion, and the unquenchable pursuit of liberty.

His spray-on luster has worn off to reveal at the core what he really is: the quintessential anti-American.

And even liberals don't want to say his name:

Interestingly, there's this eerie silence about Obama. You don't hear a peep about him. Of course, liberals are still foaming at the mouth about Sarah Palin, tea baggers, birthers, and all things conservative.

But adulation for Obama: Missing in Action. A telling sign: the life-sized black and white cardboard doll of Obama in a storefront near my office has been taken down. Where did it go -- to the local recycling center with other discarded Obamabilia?

Jimmy Carter must be breathing quite a few sighs of relief, in between shucking peanuts with his two front teeth down in Plains, Georgia (where, incidentally, the Cracker Barrel serves food that makes shoe leather taste appealing -- coincidence of proximity to extreme awfulness, perhaps?):

In a few years, we'll forget all about his malaise and recognize a new Democrat as the worst president in modern times, perhaps the worst president of all times.

In that case, at least one American will have realized the promise of hope and change.

Cross-posted at Feed Your ADHD.

Six months in.

Every once in a while I like to do a little statistical analysis. Being approximately 6 months into the Obama Administrations 4 years, I thought it might be a good time to look at these poll numbers that we keep hearing about, and to compare them to his predecessors. Along the way, I bounced my thoughts off my old liberal buddy Sven. Sven is from Scandinavia, and like most modern Democrats just slightly to the left of Lenin.

I asked Sven what he thought, and he went right into spin mode. "Well, it's gravity, isn't it? When you go in as one of the most poplar presidents of all time, you are also susceptible to a larger nominal drop when the traditional 'reality check' sets in." I wasn't going to beat him up to bad, but this statement just begged to have some numbers attached. Specifically "most poplar presidents of all time". There have been 12 Presidents since World War 2 ended. Obama's start of term popularity puts him at number 6. Dead in the middle, and certainly not the most popular president of all time. Take a look at the numbers:

Obama did out perform every other president by a wide margin in one category. Biggest drop in approval in 6 months. He cam in at whopping negative 17 point swing. His closest competition (Clinton) came in at a negative 11.

Seeing that he started out in the statistical middle, I thought I'd take a look at the averages. The average start was at 65.5 making Obama about average. The average drop was about 3.5. As I stated above, Obama "overachieved" here.

Sven also noted that Obama had a more difficult job than everyone else. This is simply not true. Reagan inherited a worse economy, the cold war and the complete collapse of American prestige. Truman inherited World War 2. Johnson and Nixon both got stuck with Viet Nam. Ford inherited a party and government shaken by Watergate. Many of these men faces daunting personal challenges. All performed statistically better than Obama.

The bottom is still a long way down. I have a feeling we wont find it for quite some time. Unfortunately, I believe that while America is already starting to realize that the Bush years will be compared to modern times as the good old days by most Americans. Obama will soon join this group of envious Americans- when he checks his polls in another 18 months.

Drudge poll spells out Obama's flagging popularity...

Found this at Drudge, via our very own Barry O. I know that web polls are not scientifically accurate, BUT, they are a good gauge of how ticked of people are. It looks like a people are pretty ticked off right now...