Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize

Normally, one would assume that this is a conservative making a joke, as I did when I first heard of it, but it’s no joke. The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded Barak Obama the Nobel Peace Prize for achieving absolutely nothing. The committee did say they were giving him the prize for:
"his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples," citing his fledgling push for nuclear disarmament and his outreach to the Muslim world. Reuters.

The committee passed over a number of people including an imprisoned Chinese dissident and a female doctor in Afghanistan who fights for womens rights. People who put the lives on the line for what they believe. (One could argue that George Bush has done much more than anyone in recent times for peace having freed millions of Muslims from oppression, especially women in Afghanistan. But what do actual results have to do with it?)

Lech Walesa comented on the award saying “So soon? Too early. He has not contribution so far.” Source.

That’s is an understatement given the fact that the voting took place in February when Obama had only been in office for less than two weeks.

The Times noted:
Rarely has an award had such an obvious political and partisan intent. It was clearly seen by the Norwegian Nobel committee as a way of expressing European gratitude for an end to the Bush Administration, approval for the election of America’s first black president and hope that Washington will honour its promise to re-engage with the world.
Instead, the prize risks looking preposterous in its claims, patronising in its intentions and demeaning in its attempt to build up a man who has barely begun his period in office, let alone achieved any tangible outcome for peace. Times.

New Flash! The prize is a preposterous joke that does not serve the cause of peace or freedom. Lest we forget they have recently been giving the prize to such humanitarians as Yasser Arafat and the anti-Semites like Jimmy Carter. It has become nothing more than political propaganda for leftist causes and fantasies.

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