It was announced this morning that President Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize. He now joins the ranks of Mother Teresa and the Dalai Lama in terms of spreading global peace. It seems in recent years that the Nobel Peace Prize is simply a prize for being liberal. The most recent United States winners are Jimmy Carter (2002), Al Gore (2007), and now, Barack Obama (2009).
The Norwegian Nobel Committee claims to give the prize 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." In rational for choosing Obama, the Nobel Committee said that he recieved the prize "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."
Looking at this rationally, they must have based this on his presidential campaign because Nobel nominations are due by February 1st. Obama had only been in office 11 days at that time. That's not a huge amount of time to make extraordinary efforts to do anything. If they continued looking at him post nomination all they could have seen is the downfall of America, a death spiral into socialism and massive debt. I can't think of anyone less worthy of the award. I would say that the Nobel Committee has lost my respect, but they actually lost me at Jimmy Carter, 7 years ago. This is just affirmation that the award is now a joke.
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