They’re awarding President Obama a Medal of Distinction for supporting Israel….

…this comes after President Obama awarded the Medal of Freedom to Shimon Peres last June.

What can I say?

Most of the medals and trophies my kids won are…um, well, let’s see…they’re here somewhere…I just saw them last week sometime…

A medal does not capture what truly occurred at the moment that an outstanding athletic or political action took place.

One cannot replace that moment with a piece of metal.  If it is given under the false disguise of making someone bigger than they are, everyone who is aware will see right through it.  If it is given to stroke the ego, even if that person made an outstanding effort, it puts them into a “better than” category that, as we see over and over, puts them on a pedestal where they don’t belong….as none of us belong on a pedestal.  It feeds into the Meritocracy mindset….you must earn your right to breathe air….to occupy your space….to live on Earth….