I’m sure most of you reacted the same way I did upon seeing that Barack Obama had won the Nobel Peace prize: “This has got to be a joke.” I realize it’s cliché to claim that reaction to unlikely news, but in this case I literally assumed someone had fallen for a clever piece from The Onion.  Alas, that was not the case.

I know for a fact many are still perplexed, as the top search on Google for most of the day was “obama nobel peace prize for what.” For what, indeed.

The answer is fairly simple, though.  The prize is for being a dedicated statist. The Nobel Peace prize, you see, has never been anything but an ideological prize, a treat to re-enforce what European leftists consider positive behavior.

I think the awarding of the prize to Obama after so short a tenure in office is a gift for those of us who have long lamented the worthlessness of the prize. Questioning its worth is now a mainstream endeavor, as the prestige of the “Nobel” label has been wiped away to reveal nothing but a silly little trophy awarded by a sadly loyal group of adherents to a dying philosophy.