I suppose his efforts at commencing the rather long-term prospect for eventual nuclear disarmament are laudable. Then again, his prolongation of not merely two wars, but also his insistence on preserving the unchecked “martial powers” of his predecessor… would seemingly make President Obama a very odd choice to win the Nobel Peace Prize. But he did anyway.
Hey, we seem to have “grade inflation” everywhere else… why not this? Assuming unemployment or the federal deficit ever come down, maybe next year he’ll get a Nobel for economic science. Or if he ever fully quits smoking… maybe medicine. Or, perhaps, he can write “Dreams of My Father II” and win for literature. (Or perhaps, share that one with Bill Ayers.)
I find all of this… troubling. And, no matter what your impressions from things I might write here (such as the ongoing f***ing we’re all taking on the Constitution)… I actually really like my college classmate The President. But this seems too much.
tdog
I don’t think Obama deserved to win…yet. It’s a well done so far and keep going from the Nobel Committee. They want Obama to deliver on his promises and have awarded him ahead of actually achieveing anything!! I have written a blog post on the topic, ‘Will the real President Obama please stand up?’ if anyone wants to take a look http://wp.me/pCIZY-Y
I think he deserves it for not collapsing uith the strain of the shitheap that Shrub left him. It’s a herculean shit heap, and I bet we have only the faintest imaginings of what’s hidden underneath it.
He is tied to the head of the Nobel Commitee through a trip he made to Africa in support of Odinga, our chosen candidate, at the behest of drug companies, OSCE, Albright, and the CIA a few years before the election. He wanted them to stop producing low cost generics which had resulted in a growth period called the Kenyan miracle.
That election caused a lot of death, and I think Obama would have like to divorce himself from it. That dang Nobel Peace prize brought it back up. All that right winger idiocy about him being kenyan is just nonsense, but it could have been disinformation too.