Well, it looks like BHO getting awarded the Nobel Peace Prize caught just about everyone off guard. Of particular interest is the fact that nominations for the 2009 prize ended on February 1st, so Obama had only been in office for a couple of weeks or so.

The 1.4 million dollars he gets along with the medal is a nice little personal stimulus package. Those who voted for him and were hoping for a big stimulus package of their own will just have to be joyful and happy that at least Obama scored big. (How's that Detroit stimulus working out?) (UPDATE: President Obama has indicated he will donate his prize money to charity. I'm sure ACORN will be happy to get the check.)

Clearly, Obama got the prize for his campaign rhetoric. The socialist world was tiring of Bush and along comes Obama promising hope and change and touchy-feely encounter group sessions with the world's most evil leaders. All we are saying........is give peace a chance.

Unforseen by anyone is just how bad the timimg of this award is.  McChrystal is begging for 40,000 more troops for  Afghanistan and it looks like an attack on Iran will be happening any day now. Obama may be humbled to get the peace prize, but you can bet his head just swelled considerably. The narcissistic, publicity loving Obama is not going to want to disappoint those who gave him the peace prize by suddenly becoming a war monger.

I would wager he will now try to be even more pacifistic than Chamberlain. Our troop morale is already suffering. Not allowing our guys to go kick some ass is just going to exacerbate an already bad situation. Our "rules of engagement" only allow our troops to fire on specifically identifiable targets, thus limiting their ability to neutralize threats, but it does limit civilian casualties. Sorry, but if you are actually trying to win a war, then NO targets are off limits. (Where's "Stormin' Norman" when you need him?)

The other side of the coin is that overtly Obama becomes more of a pacifist, but covertly things heat up.....in terms of torture in an effort to extract information that might result in the elimination of the enemy with reduced casualties so that we still make progress but look like we are not so brutal in our overt efforts. (Basically a continuation of Bush/Cheney information extraction policies times ten)

Things are just going to continue to pile up for Obama. How much more can he deal with? How much longer are the powers that be going to put up with his incompetence?