http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2009/10/rightbloggers_d_1.phpPeggy Noonan called the award "wicked" and "ignorant," in part because Reagan never won it, and suggested Obama redress the injustice by insulting his hosts at the award ceremonies ("Who invented the Internet? It was a Norwegian bureaucrat with a long face and hair on his nose and little plastic geometric eyeglasses? Oh wait, it was Americans.")
"European socialism cannot succeed without conquering the United States," wrote Dick Morris And Eileen McGann. "...It must dominate worldwide or wealth and power will flow to those who remain committed to the free market... the Peace Prize expresses Europe's longing: to take back the nation its overly ambitious and uppity children founded." The result of this "Neville Chamberlain Award," intoned Mark Epstein, "will only be more Western dead."
But what could they do? Invade Oslo? Strike their own medal and give it to John Bolton? Some patriots looked for ways to keep the America-killing Prize from being delivered to Obama.
National Review's Kathryn J. Lopez found a lawyer who suggested that Obama is Constitutionally forbidden to accept the Prize and the $1.4 million that goes with it. (Constitutional scholar Eugene Volokh considered this at length, and gave Obama only provisional clearance: "But this of course still leaves the question whether the award is from a foreign State...") "Even if Obama gives the $1.4 million to charity," said Hans Bader at OpenMarket.org, "it still won't change matters. A gift is a gift even if it's later given to charity, and most people would be thrilled to have $1.4 million to give to charity."
More hilarity at link :rofl: