It happened when to Fonzie when he literally "jumped the shark". Jon and Kate did it when they announced their divorce on tv the day they filed the papers. When Cousin Oliver showed up at the Brady household, they too had jumped the shark.
Yesterday, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee did it when they announced that President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. Some say that it was due to the fact that they wanted to pressure the Obama administration into passing Cap-and-Trade. If that were true they could have saved the planet and asked him to come over and pick up the award while he was in the neighborhood last week instead of sending him out there again, burning up more fuel than the prize is worth. Some say that he brought peace to the world through his ideas. Then why has Chicago with over twenty years of Obama's presence continue to fail to be a place where "grass not glass" exists.
The weakest argument here is the one that says, "Those who oppose this nod are just unamerican." They also said that about hoping Chicago did not get the 2016 Olympics and wishing for Obama's failure. Let's set the record straight. It is exactly American. To call a spade a spade has been American from the very beginning. Think of any great American from any part of the political, religious, or intellectual spectrum and decide if they were great because they compromised what they believed or that they stood firm in their beliefs and were immovable.
Everyone who feels that Obama deserved this award has yet to point to one concrete action, if not idea that has led to action, that justifies it. Yet to those who disagree with this award, we should just say, "Whatever" (the most annoying word to Americans according to a recent survey) and move on to more pressing matters like being vigilant in watching what the other hand is doing.
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