Wow! Nobel Peace Prize! Way to go, President Obama! You not only get to go down in history as a great humanitarian (although Kissinger also won, so that takes the shine off a bit) but you get more than $1 million. To spend however you like! I guess after taxes it's only going to be around a few-hundred-thousand (unless you can write off your campaign flights and stuff somehow?) but still, that's some nice cash to have lying around. A request: How about holding on to the money until you call me on my birthday! Because I have a pretty great idea about how you could spend it.
How about buying a bar? The oldest-continually operating bar on the West Coast, Merchants' Cafe, is for sale here in Seattle. Only $300K! You could totally swing it.
Probably some people would be all "what the hell, dude, you can't spend peace prize money on a bar." Those people are nuts. Alcohol promotes peace. Did you ever read about the Christmas Truce during WWI, when the German and British soldiers met in No Man's Land and played soccer? Yeah, those guys were eight kinds of drunk, there's no other way to explain why they would get out of their trenches and march toward the enemy while singing Christmas Carols. First of all, no one can sing Christmas Carols sober anyway, let alone with machine guns trained on them.
Anyway -- I'm not saying that you're gonna win another peace prize for buying the bar, but it's not the disaster people might make it out to be. It would be pretty sweet; you'd get tons of people coming in to the place because you are so popular; and you don't have to even be there when they do, look how well Michael Jordan's Steakhouse has done.
When you're done being president maybe you could spend more time there. And when Malia and Sasha need summer jobs during college, they could wash dishes and stuff.
I don't really see a downside, but maybe we could talk about it more when you call me. I'm sure the place will still be available, since nobody's buying crap in this economy (no offense!).
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