Antigua Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer and his government is seeking to name its highest peak after President Barack Obama.  They wish to create Mount Obama Monument and National Park with hiking trails and a museum with entertainment and educational facilities.  Spencer says Mount Obama will be a “beacon of hope for all people.”

Spencer outlined his plan Monday but did not say how much it would cost or how the government of the dual-island nation of Antigua and Barbuda would pay for it.  The 1,319-foot mountain is currently known as Boggy Peak.  It will be renamed on Obama’s birthday August 4.  Spencer says the U.S. president will be invited to the ceremony.

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Whatever your politics or religion, you have to admit it’s an upside-down world when Notre Dame awarded President Obama with an honorary degree, but Arizona State University did not.  "His body of work is yet to come.  That’s why we’re not recognizing him with a degree at the beginning of his presidency," ASU spokeswoman Sharon Keeler said.

Obama took the issue head-on in his commencement speech at ASU.  “I come here not to dispute the suggestion that I haven’t yet achieved enough in my life,” Obama joked Wednesday.  “First of all, Michelle (Obama) concurs with that assessment.  She has a long list of things that I have not yet done waiting for me when I get home.  But more than that I come to embrace the notion that I haven’t done enough in my life.  I heartily concur.  I come to affirm that one’s title, even a title like ‘president of the United States,’ says very little about how well one’s life has been led.”

C’mon, universities hand out honorary doctorates to just about anybody whose honoring will help fill the school coffers.  ASU not honoring the first black president of the United States is an example of smart people over-thinking and acting stupid.

Jason Jones from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart learns that Barack Obama will have to work much harder to earn an honorary degree from Arizona State:

With all the grave problems facing President Obama, you’d think they didn’t exist with all the hype and excitement surrounding the first dog.  Now there are two new books that celebrate the Obama’s hunt and acquisition of their white house puppy.

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