Nobel Peace Prize Equates Farce

All news medias led today's editions with the proclamation that Barack H. Obama had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Like so many other Americans I found this announcement to be not only ridiculous but also an absolute insult to the prestige that has for decades attached to any recipient of a Nobel Prize. That prestige has now been permanently destroyed.

Under what possible rational theory could Obama ever have been seriously considered a candidate for this award? American forces are killing and dying daily in Iraq although Obama his plans to reduce the military force significantly over the next year. These same Armed Forces are engaged in extensive combat missions in Afghanistan with serious overtures to Obama, that have not been rejected by him, to expand the role and the number of the American military in that desolate nation. The only "peaceful" acts that can be attributed to Obama, and those are in themselves a stretch, are the cancellation of a proposed missile protective system in Eastern Europe and the kowtowing to North Korea as it expands its nuclear and missile programs and the failure to imposing prompt and meaningful sanctions against Iran as it races to join the club of nations with nuclear weapons.

One does not have to be paranoid to see this Nobel award is nothing more than a very cleaver attack on America. The message being sent is that Obama is an international joke as a leader. He is well liked but would not be followed even if the proposed trip was just around the corner. These Euro nations are expressing that a strong, traditional American President is not favored by the anti-American elites of the Nobel Prize Committee. However, the ever accommodating, Saudi Prince bowing, leftist leaning, socialism promoting Obama is no threat and his weaknesses can only demean and diminish America. No award of Olympic Games for Obama because his government and economy can't handle the responsibility but with a sly grin we will give him a Nobel Peace Prize and let him stick $1,400,000.00 as a cash award in his pocket.

The only American poll on this Obama award shows that 66% of his fellow citizens find the said award inappropriate; 13% find the award as premature; and 21% were in favor of the award. If these same figures can only carry over to the 2010 and 2012 elections, I will be happy to see Obama, as a former President, making public appearances with his Nobel sash across his chest and his Nobel Peace Prize medal boldly displayed.