Posted by
Steve on Friday, October 09, 2009 1:12:18 PM
When I logged onto the computer this morning at home, I was shocked to see that Barack Hussein Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize. I thought you had to DO something to earn that reward. I could not think of one thing that Barack Obama had done since becoming President that would justify giving him the Nobel Peace Prize. The only thing that popped into my mind is that they like to give the award to people who bad mouth the United States. Barack Obama sure has done a lot of that since taking office. Maybe that is why they gave him the award. He surely has not done anything to really earn it.
Other Presidents, including the worst of the 20th century Presidents, Jimmy Carter, have tried to get the award. Many of them had actual accomplishments that would easily justify giving them the Nobel Peace Prize, but they were denied. All of them had the audacity to talk about the United States in glowing terms. The Nobel Peace Prize Committee will not allow any American to get the award that does not talk about the United States like it is some demented prison camp. At least that is how it has been lately. Presidents T. Roosevelt and Wilson won the award as a sitting President. Jimmy Carter won the award after leaving office.
Other Nobel prizes are awarded for actual accomplishments, like the awards for Physics, Chemistry, and Biology and so on. The Peace prize is different because there usually isn’t much competition for the award. Usually nobody deserves the award in any given year. But, they need to give the award every year to continue to build up the prestige of the award. So, they usually give the award to unknown leaders of some protest group under some totalitarian government. The person usually cannot come and receive the award because the government has them under house arrest. That way everyone feels good and nobody gets offended.
In his reaction to the news, even Barack Obama did not think he had done enough to win the award. The media is tending to agree with him. They are asking what has he done to deserve the award. The Nobel committee cited all the things that Obama said he would do as their reason. If you have to rely on what Obama says he will do to justify this award, they will be real surprised when none of it happens. Bill Clinton was a pathological liar. He would tell a lie even when he did not have to tell a lie. But, Bill Clinton did tell the truth most of the time. Obama just makes things up as he goes. If it sounds good, he puts it in the speech. That way, almost nothing Obama said can be taken at face value for the truth. Everything has to be checked and rechecked to make sure it is true. Even then, you are not sure if you have the whole unvarnished truth. The Nobel committee is pinning their hopes on a guy who almost never tells the truth, to tell the truth. That is a long shot if I ever heard one.
Since I am so negative on Obama getting the award, I suppose some of you are thinking who I think should have won the award. To tell the truth, I have not followed the political situation around the world well enough to give an honest answer to that question. I am sure that there are at least a half dozen people in the world that did more for peace in the last year than Barack Obama. They did not get the award because the Nobel Peace Prize committee wanted to send a message to the United States. That is that if you want the award, you have to act like the United States is a third world country, not the leader of the world. Then, you might get an award just like Barack Obama. Of course, if another President does that there probably will not be a United States to be President of. We might survive one super-weak President, but we could not survive two. I have my doubts about surviving one, if we re-elect the one.