The Pursuit of Control

Wilson, Carter, Roosevelt, Gore and now… Obama?!

I guess I never realized how ridiculous the Nobel Peace Prize really was until I woke up this morning listening to Obama accept the award. In typical Obama fashion though, the first thing Obama did was credit foreign leaders for his award. I guess when you really have absolutely zero reasons to win the award you have to dig pretty deep to figure out why you should be waking up to this prize.

Even past presidents who have won the awards while in office had actual reasons to be granted the prize. Both Roosevelt and Wilson were awarded the prize for treaties signed under their watch. In the last several years though the prize has fallen off of a cliff and has been awarded to Carter in 2002, Gore in 2007 and now Obama in 2009.

Since the prize is awarded for accomplishments over the last year  maybe Obama’s speech in Germany was enough to land the prize. Maybe denouncing Jeremiah Wright was enough to push him over the edge and win the award. I know, maybe adopting the family dog was enough of a peaceful gesture to grant him the honor.

If they really wanted to grant the award to a liberal why not President Clinton? His charity has raised over $1 billion towards humanitarian causes all over the world. Gandhi never even won the award!

Some are saying this was merely a stunt to take a swipe at the Bush administration. If that is the case we are in much worse shape than I thought. To grant an undeserving rookie president who has managed to do nothing to help the economy, improve the lives of citizens of the United States, or the world for that matter with zero tangible achievements is not only obviously biased, but is also absolutely ridiculous and points to the mindset of those around the world that value the weak, conformist agenda of the Obama administration.

I guess the only other question would be how is Obama going to redistribute his prize money?

Tags: Liberal, Nobel, Obama, President

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