Posted by
Bob Siegel on Friday, October 09, 2009 3:18:53 PM
Winner of the Nobel Peace prize: Barack Obama. I have two comments to make, one about the winner, another about the prize itself.
First of all, nobody with any sense of decency should receive such a compromised award. The company of fellow recipients just isn't anything to brag about. One of the winners, Jimmy Carter, encourages us to make deals with terrorists. Another winner, Yassir Arafat, is a terrorist! Now, I realize that a man's entire life should be examined when we are considering honoring his achievements and little things like terrorism need to be occasionally overlooked, so let me add that Arafat was a rapist too.
On to Obama. Even if we wanted to suspend belief for a moment and pretend this award was not tarnished, what exactly has Obama done to deserve the grand honor? Where precisely do we see that the world is more peaceful since he took office? The committee claims this was for "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."
Cooperation? Such as the cooperation of betraying friends like Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Israel? Diplomacy which allows unconditional talks with the holocaust denier, Ahamadinnejad? No, probably the powers-that-be weren't thinking about all that stuff. Instead, they were rewarding Obama because he apologized on behalf of America to countries we should learn to emulate, countries like Egypt, Syria, and Russia.
The man has accomplished nothing, absolutely nothing, unless we want to count a bankrupted country well on its way toward Socialism, more governmental control than the history of our nation has ever witnessed, and race relations that couldn't possibly be worse, inspired by a president no one is allowed to criticize without being dubbed a racist. That is America's award for electing the first African-American president in an attempt to put race behind us once and for all.
I don't suppose the Nobel Prize Committee would care to instead examine a recent American president, one who made significant strides towards women's rights by freeing the women of Afghanistan, women who now serve in the government but who once got murdered for not wearing "proper attire" in public. Naw....I guess not...In our dreams! How could the freeing of women compare to apologizing for America's recent deeds over the last few years which.....ah...well...which freed women?
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