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[digg-reddit-me]Andrew Sullivan has the “reax<\/a>.”<\/p>\n Two struck home for me. Mickey Kaus<\/a> and Joshua Micah Marshall<\/a>.<\/p>\n Kaus:<\/p>\n Turn it down!<\/strong> Politely decline. Say he’s honored but he\u00a0hasn’t had\u00a0the time yet to accomplish<\/a> what he wants to accomplish. Result: He gets at least the same amount of glory–and helps solve his\u00a0narcissism problem<\/strong> and his\u00a0Fred Armisen (‘What’s he done?’) problem,<\/strong> demonstrating that he’s uncomfortable with his reputation as a man\u00a0overcelebrated for his potential<\/strong> long before he’s\u00a0started to realize it. …<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I’m not sure Obama can really do this – but on principle it seems the right thing.<\/p>\n Marshall:<\/p>\n This is an odd award. You’d expect it to come later in Obama’s presidency and tied to some particular event or accomplishment. But the unmistakable message of the award is one of the consequences of a period in which the most powerful country in the world, the ‘hyper-power’ as the French have it, became the focus of destabilization and in real if limited ways lawlessness. A harsh judgment, yes. But a dark period. And Obama has begun, if fitfully and very imperfectly to many of his supporters, to steer the ship of state in a different direction<\/strong>. If that seems like a meager accomplishment to many of the usual Washington types it’s a profound reflection of their own enablement of the Bush era and how compromised they are by it, how much they perpetuated the belief that it was ‘normal history’ rather than dark aberration. [my emphasis]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Matt Drudge is claiming that Obama will “accept award on ‘behalf of Americans and America’s values’…”\u00a0That seems like his best bet to me, so it’s not surprising they landed on it.<\/p>\n Kathryn Lopez of National Review<\/em> meanwhile has been (like many other right wingers) tweeting many different bitter sentiments – but this one struck me as true<\/a>:<\/p>\n @kathrynlopez: from a friend: “I feel as if the Onion has really overdone it today. And everyone fell for it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n