Nobel Peace Prize: Am I Dreaming?
When I first heard that President Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize I thought I was in a dream sequence. When I realized that I was awake and hearing correctly, I then spent some time trying to understand the award.
Listening to commentary one observation caught my attention with an analogy that fit the situation. It was: “ This is like awarding an Academy Award to someone because he went to the movies.”
The President joins Jimmy Carter, Al Gore and Yassar Arafat as a winner of this award. Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini were past nominees who did not garner enough votes to win. Perhaps if they had been given the award we could have avoided World War ll.
To his credit the President, by winning the award, has unified thought in areas where there has not been any agreement in the past. Danny Danon a prominent member of the Israel Knesset said: “ The award has been given for wishful thinking.”
Ahmed Yousef, Foreign Minister of Hamas said: “It was too early to award him. He has not done that much yet.”
I wonder if this agreement of thought by these individuals is enough to start building a permanent peace in the Middle East. Maybe it is the Presidents plan to use the award to goad the parties into joining hands around a campfire singing Kumbaya (come by here). If he pulls that off he can take the $1,400,000 prize and use it to hire Stephen King to write a recounting of the next 3 years of his administration’s economic strategy.
After Cap & Trade, The Health Plan, the take over of the auto industry, Tarp, The Stimulus, managing the Afghan situation and other details, if will take someone with writing skills of Stephen King to tell the story of this administrations short reign..
This tale might win the Nobel Prize for Literature if there is a disaster category.
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Comments
Jeoulosy is unbecoming, Uncle Buck. A simple “congrats” would have served the rightwingnut cult better.
By the way, I believe TARP happened long before Obama was even elected. But hey, I get it: blame Obama for everything!
diogenes,
I’m happy to see that you are still reading. You are semi correct in the TARP comment> I believe as a Senator he was a supporter. The Peace Prize award was strictly a political statement and you are smart enough to recognize that.
A sad side issue was that the Nobel Award for Physics to George Smith was buried in coverage. George actually accomplished something that has affected our lives and did it without the help of trillions of dollars and fawning press coverage and huzzahs for every step he took.
Hell, yeah, it was a political comment. Not that I’m prone to quote Nicolas Sarkozy, but his comments were right on point:
“By awarding you its most prestigious prize, the Committee is rewarding your determined commitment to human rights, justice and spreading peace across the world, in accordance with the will of its founder Alfred Nobel. It also does justice to your vision of tolerance and dialogue between States, cultures and civilizations. Finally, it sets the seal on America’s return to the heart of all the world’s peoples.”
Or, as Saturday Night Live summarized last night “I won it for not being George Bush. But I have only not been George Bush for nine months.”
They’ve got to do something to pump him up, he hasn’t done anything yet.