The Audacity of Audacity! For probably the last 10 or 20 years it has been pretty well given that the Nobel Peace Prize is nothing but a political prize given by a committee - not associated with the real Nobel Prizes given for real contributions to society - to individuals or groups that have actually not contributed to the promotion of peace. This year the final nail in the prizes' coffin has been set - the Messiah, the Great One, the Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. From a Washington Examiner piece, the opening paragraph, gives the reasons why the committee thought the Obama worthy of such a worthless prize - a total mockery of the Obama's world vision:
President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a stunning decision designed to encourage his initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and stress diplomacy and cooperation rather than unilateralism. (Emphasis mine)
Every president since the rise of the Soviet Union and the growth of the terrorist Islamic states have had this mission - so why give the prize to the Obama, who has had not one success in foreign policy since taking office - well, because the prize is not given for success and accomplishment but only as a reward for awkward stupidity. The world is still rolling around laughing from his UN Security Council speech to eliminate nuclear weapons and Israel is about to destroy Iran because the Obama's great diplomacy has led to great advances in Iran's Nuclear Weapon's program. I still haven't heard NK promising to give up its weapons. Given the Peace Prize committee's decision this year, I think that if I were to hear that I had won the prize I would immediately hold a press conference and decline. I would never want to be placed along with the pantheon of clowns that have won the award in the last decade.
My biggest disappointment, other than the final everlasting cheapening of the Peace prize to just another "he showed up" prize, is that the committee did not go all the way and include a co-recipients of the prize the other major players in the Obama circus - Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez, Castro, Kim Jong Il, Hamas, and Hezbollah. I mean, afterall, fair is fair, if you are going to reward doing nothing to help peace why not include everyone?
The only sitting President to win the award for actually doing something to promote peace was Theodore Roosevelt in 1906, when he helped end the Russo-Japanese war. His negotiations led to the "Treaty of Portsmouth." Woodrow Wilson also received the prize, as a sitting president, but his prize was for work that led to World War II. And now the 3rd sitting president to receive the award, the Obama, gets it for doing nothing. In 2002 Jimmy Carter, a former president - in title only - received the prize for being a Bush critic.
In his 1895 will, Alfred Nobel stipulated that the peace prize should go "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations and the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the formation and spreading of peace congresses."
I am trying to remember when Nobel's charter was changed from this to, "the peace prize should go to the person who blathers the most on the most inane subjects," which clearly fits the Obama and would be the reason for the award. I am sure that Sarkozy totally agrees with the choice!
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