Obama mocks his Nobel Prize:  President Obama took a brief moment during an ambitious speech about energy on Wednesday to simultaneously praise a colleague and drop a bit of self-deprecating humor about his Nobel Peace Prize.

“[Energy Secretary Steven] Chu’s the right guy to do this, he’s got a Nobel prize in physics — he actually deserved his Nobel prize,” Obama said, drawing laughter with his offhanded remark on the otherwise serious topic of improving the safety of natural gas extraction.

Har de har har.

You know, as much as I appreciate this self-deprecating joke to the most surreal moment of the early Obama Administration (What were those Norwegians thinking?), I would have appreciated far more had Obama declined his Nobel Prize — and there is precedent for that — considering his Noble Prize acceptance speech included this deep thought on his road ahead:

“Some will kill. Some will be killed.”

— Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but the Prize clashes with his job description as he understands it.

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