President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. President Obama becomes the third sitting President of the United States to win the storied prize. Presidents Theordore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson claimed the prize during their administrations.
What is curious about the selection of President Obama is that nominations for the prize were closed just days after President Obama took office. It appears that the Nobel committee selected President Obama for what he might do, instead of what he has actually accomplished. That is uncprecedented.
That precedence tempers American pride in its President claiming the Nobel Peace Prize. The politics of the prize evidently selected Obama, not Obama's real accomplishments for peace. After snubbing President Obama in the Olympic bid, it seems the European community especially wants to make amends with President Obama.
Think on it for a moment. The man recieiving the Nobel Peace Prize has led the United States through the most violent time in Afghanistan. The President's call for reaching out to the Islamic world was met with increased violence. Indeed, after seven months of Obama as President, the world is just as violent, if not more violent, then it was when he took office. The President has not negoitiated a great peace deal, as Roosevelt and Wilson did. The President has had no great iniative to stop genocide in places like Darfur. For that matter, the President has not moved to feed the hungry, or shelter the homeless in such regions.
So, why is President Obama honored with the Nobel Peace Prize? It is simple, his liberal rhetoric appeals to those who decide such. They gave the President the prize for what he says, not what he does.
As such, the Nobel Peace Prize is cheapened. What was once a prize given for true humantarian accomplishment has turned into a political statement. That tempers the pride of Americans in their President winning it.
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ReplyDeleteI wonder what Obama Man thinks about this?
ReplyDeleteObama Man must still be asleep because I know he is going to jump on your "cracker" self for disrespeting the President's great prize. And I totally agree with your entry. The closing date for Nominations was February 1, 2009. What did Obama do that was so grandiose in that first week and a half to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
ReplyDeleteI'll go on record and just say what the rest of us are thinking...
ReplyDelete"Barack Hussien Obama makes me want to puke."
Plain enough for ya?
A shame that something that is supposed to be a mark of greatness has come to this. Not the only shameful giving of this award in recent history. Google who Al Gore beat out.
ReplyDeleteI will tell your cracker ass what makes me puke, a fat white girl who won't leave me alone and a fat cracker with a little cracker who disses my President.
ReplyDeleteYou crackers can not handle the fact the Brotha is gettin' respect from the world. My President makes me proud. Finally, finally, American is thinking and acting Black. The world sees it and gave my President his props.
Nobel knows what I know. Nobel ain't no cracker. I bet Nobel is hanging out at some club tonight. If the world was ran by brothas and sistas, it would be a better place.
What a blessed day we real Americans of color had today, to see our President respected so. Ain't a bunch of racist cracker ass crackers gonna ruin that for me.
Cracker Blaze, one more thing for you. You know what my President done, he kicked your cracker asses and is running this country the way a Black man would, not the old pale ass cracker ass ways.
ReplyDeleteI know that pisses your pale cracker ass off. I know it has to be hard to live with your little cracker, knowing the white women want a brotha like me, now you gotta deal with the world liking a President who is a brotha.
Go blaze a cross, cracker, so my President can lock your cracker ass up.
Hey, Obama Man, if the "black" way of running a government is so good, why doesn't Africa rule the world?
ReplyDeleteObama Man, you think Nobel is an actual person who lives today and hangs out at clubs? Figures. Geez. Welcome to Obama Land.
ReplyDeleteI think I will call myself President Fred from now on. I am President. Now I just need a rap song.
I haven't did shit and I deserve the Nobel peace price more than he did.
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