There has been so much already said & written about this I almost decided not to bother writing anything. However, I will add my 2 cents to the mix. This award was made null & void in my book back in 1994. Why you ask...well in 1994* one of the most despicable men on the planet at the time was given the award. I am referring to Yassir Arafat. A man whose hands were not only covered in blood for all the innocent Israeli's & Jews he had murdered...but for all of his own people he sent on suicide missions & those that didn't see things his way he had killed. To rub some more salt in the wound he funneled the money that was given to him by Aid Organizations & governments for the Palestinian people into his own Swiss bank accounts! Instead of building schools & hospitals, creating jobs etc...he embezzled the money. As much as I wish the Mosad executed him, I'm shocked that one of his own people didn't. How this monster that inflicted so much pain on so many could be given the award for Peace shows just how screwed up the committee is. The award is meaningless...a sad joke. Furthermore giving it to Jimmy Carter in 2002...a man who was one of...if not Americas worst ever President with the absolute worst foreign policies...who since leaving office travels the world with his anti-American & anti-Semitic rants..gets the award by a bunch of sad weak leftists so they can stick their flaccid finger in Bush's eye...It's easily understood why Obama seemed less then thrilled to win it.
For the record, while I did not vote for Obama or agree with most of his policies I do truly believe this is an award he would have loved to win & would have cherished...if he had won it years from now with a list of accomplishments to show how he earned it. Instead I'm guessing he feels cheated. That instead of earning it for achieving change in the world for the better that he believes in...he gets it for what? Appealing to a bunch of Euro left wingers who have decried America's rise to power after the second World War?!? Maybe olde & wise Europe should remember why we rose & they fell. Maybe we should note it as well before we fall. Let's all hope that during Obama's presidency he earns this award by bringing the change he promised...I don't believe much in hoping for things...so let's count on him living up to his words...I'm rooting for him for the record...
* http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/
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