LOU MAJOR SR.

This is about the far left and the far right, enough fodder for anybody to chew on.

Barack Obama and Rush Limbaugh are as far as the liberal and conservative barometers can handle. They shake the very foundations of opposition sanity. Obama sends Rushmen to the moon; Limbaugh sends Obamacrats to daily therapy. So let’s get it on.

President Obama has received the Ignoble Peace Prize, but for the life of me I don’t get it. When the final deadline for submitting nominations to the Norsemen fell, Obama had only been president for about a week. Based on that fact alone, one wonders how much he had done to further world peace in just a few days. I can’t recall him solving any world non-peace problems. As a matter of fact, he had adopted the Afghanistan war as his own, apparently under the mistaken impression that he could bring peace to a place that President Bush surely didn’t.

The Afghan war, assuredly not created under Obama’s watch, has become his own albatross.

The Nobel Commission, made up of five Norwegians who must be totally out of touch with reality, announced Obama as the winner from a list of some 100 people from around the world. It has been written that three of the five initially did not favor Obama, but the chairman was strongly in favor. So apparently majority opinion in the early going is not sufficient to make the day in Nobelland.

But if you take into account that the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Jimmy Carter, it all becomes easier to understand.

And not long after that happened, along comes National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell announcing that it would be a bad idea for Limbaugh to be one of the new owners of the St. Louis Rams. It was reinforced by Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay.

I will not deny that Limbaugh is a divisive person. Who can argue with that? But Limbaugh is not the only middle-aged white conservative who owns a share of an NFL team. In fact, they abound. Limbaugh’s problem is that he bellows forth daily on his radio show.

It’s certainly no secret that the majority of football players in the NFL are black men. It is no secret that the great majority of African Americans are Democrats and liberals. Therein lies the rub.

But if the players, those multi-millionaire athletes, can’t stomach playing for the likes of Limbaugh, here’s a solution. Let’s suppose Limbaugh’s personal ownership in the Rams were 10 percent. The players could individually or collectively show their disdain for him by turning down l0 percent of their huge paychecks. That would show Limbaugh!

There’s simply something wrong in this country when an entity such as the NFL or a team such as the St. Louis Rams refuse to allow a loudmouth like Limbaugh to invest his own money and be a partial owner. But things like this, more and more, are happening daily in our country.

Do they really think Limbaugh would force the Rams’ coach to run plays only over the right side of the line?

Lou Major Sr. is a former CEO and current board member of Wick Communications and a Slidell resident.