President Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize
By now everyone has heard that President Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize. I wasn’t even going to write about is but it is the topic de-jour so I feel obligated to mention it. I still don’t intend to spend much time on this topic because even Barack Obama’s most ardent supporters know exactly how silly it was for Barack Obama to win this prize.
When I woke up this morning and saw the headline on Politico.com that Barack Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize I honestly thought that it was an opinion piece. I almost didn’t read the story but decided to. I was actually shocked to find out that Barack Obama had in fact won the prize.
The question is why did Obama deserve the award? Certainly there were other candidates who had actually accomplished something that were far more deserving of the award. The committee’s reason for giving Obama the award was basically that he inspired people to hope for a better future. They gave him the award based on what they hope he will accomplish, not for what he has accomplished. They gave him the award for his rhetoric and not for his actions.
Apparently bowing to kings and apologizing for America on every foreign trip that he takes trumps the fact that Obama has escalated the war in Afghanistan once and probably will again, (on this issue I agree with the president), he has alienated Israel, pissed off England, allowed Iran to continue to work toward producing nuclear weapons, allowed North Korea to test nuclear weapons, and legitimized the Taliban. His dream that he will help to usher in a nuclear free age is falling apart around him but it is his vision of that world that won him this award, not what he has done to ensure his vision becomes a reality.
But hey, other than that, with Obama the future looks bright.
America's Watchtower 
The Nobel Peace Prize has been cheapened beyond belief by this award, it already meant very little, after having been awarded to the likes of Jimmy Carter and Yassar Arafat, but today took the cake…
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And I thought it was bad when Al Gore won it for making a ficional movie.
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Look at the nobel panel. Just a bunch of socialist wack jobs. Look who they chose in the past. Gore, Arafat, Carter. Obama fits right in. If it ever was a legitimate award, it certainly hasn’t been for a long time.
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The prize means nothing any more, but it has been fun watching the media try to legitimize this.
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We all know full well that the Nobel peace prize has been a joke for a long time. What this makes me think of, is: Obama being “awarded” the prize for what seems like no reason at all (11 days, remember…) to me it appears as if he has been “awarded” his senate seat and also the presidency. For what reason though? For speaking well? For promising hope and change? If any of our boys lose life or limb in Afghanistan or anywhere else because of Obama “winning” the Nobel peace prize, he should be impeached.
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Obama may not like the idea of winning in Afghanistan, (remember his quote on victory?), but he doesn’t have a problem with personal victory.
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Nothing I can say that hasn’t already been said. It is clear that Obama did not deserve this award. Anyway you slice it, it comes up crazy.
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Adolf Hitler was nominated as was Stalin and Mussolini.
It is fitting that Obama should be in the company of Carter, Gore and Arafat.
When will Ahmadinejad or Kim Jong ii get one in the name of Peace?
According to Nobel’s will, the Peace Prize is to be awarded “to the person who shall have done the most for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.” That standard is long gone.
Nominee’s are to be submitted by February 1st.
Elected in November, inaugurated on Jan 20th and nominated by Feb 1st.
Things that make ya go MMMM! MMMM! MMMM!
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