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Bizzarro Date 10/09/2009
Today we wake up to get the "great" news that a new Nobel Peace Prize winner has been named. I say "great" with much sarcasm due to the fact that the winner is none other than newly elected President Barack Obama. What? What? What? No, you heard it right. Barack Obama, the man who has now been at the helm of this out of control ship we call "The United States" for less than ten months, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize this morning. Once again I feel the need to repeat myself. I said "less than T-E-N months."
How is it that in less than ten months of service this man deserves the Nobel Peace Prize? Theadore Roosevelt (1906), Woodrow Wilson (1919), and Jimmy Carter (2002) were all former presidents that received the NPP, but none of them were awarded the prize in the first year of their term. Maybe they did not achieve what Obama did in his first few months of office. According to Alfred Nobel's will , the Nobel Peace Prize should be awarded "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses."
With that being said let's compare the three former Presidential winners with Obama.
1. None of the former Presidential winners were elected as the "First BLACK President" so Obama wins that one. I personnaly don't care if the President is black, white , green, etc. But does being black go toward the NPP score card? How is it that we are working towards "equality" in our nation for all races and then awarding someone merit because they are "black"? Sounds like Reverse Discrimination to me. But none the less the other Presidents did not achieve this.
Score....... Roosevelt, Wilson, Carter =0, Obama -= 1.
2. Well, this is where I should write the second thing Obama did to validate his nomination for the NPP. However I cannot see where there is a Nobel Peace Prize type of action that is worth noting. Now , I am not saying that nothing has been done in the nine and one half months he has been in office. I am however saying that I personally do not see where he has done "the most or the best work for fraternity between nations" as the prize stipulations say. Nor do I see where he has had part in "the abolition or reduction in standing armies" as is also stated as a requirement.
Hmmmm. This also leads me to the realization that we cannot leave our "contest" to stand with only four competitors. Obama did not need to surpass three fromer Presidents achievements, but instead must have done something that NO other president has accomplished. I have to stop and ask myself and everyone who reads this "What actions did Barack Obama take in his first eleven days in office that were so grand they were worth a NPP nomination?" What did he do better or more intense than all of our other Presidents before him? Surely he did something that no other President did in their first eleven days. Why do I keep saying that he must have done this/these deed(s) in the first eleven days? The NPP Requirements say that ALL nominations shall be recieved no later than February 1 of each year. That is right, February 1. Obama was innaugurated on January 20, 2009. ELEVEN days before the deadline for the NPP nominations. This must truely have been an awesome eleven days in the White House.
It is a stretch for me morally and ethically to embrace this award and the nomination process that shadows it. This is an embarassment for the other recipients of the award who gave so much of themselves to the world. Kim Dae-jung, Nelson Mandela, The 14th Dalai Lama, U.N. Peacekeeping Forces, and Martin Luther King Jr. were all immeasurable influences on the world as we know it. Does Barack Obama deserve to have his name sit beside these due to his actions over eleven days?
In closure I need to somehow bring this attrocity back into some form of reality that I can "sell" to myself and my family. We cannot change history, but instead, must learn from it. Hopefully this event will open the eyes of the world. Let everyone see the farce this Presidency has become. We must not allow something of this magnitude to be repeated. Albert Einstein ,a Nobel Prize winner in physics, told us this definition "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. " Lets not become an "insane" country.
Afterthought:
I believe that I now know what Barack Obama did that no other President has done............. Cash For Clunkers!!!.......it all makes sense now
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