Obviously, the big new of today is that President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. This award is evidently given in anticipation of President Obama's accomplishments in the direction of world peace. The nomination process for the award closes February 1st. President Obama was nominated less than a month after he took office. This is sad.
The Wall Street Journal posted a story about the award this morning. The Peace Prize Committee explained that in awarding President Obama the Peace Prize the prize they were encouraging him rather than rewarding him for his achievements. Somehow I don't think that was what Alfred Nobel had in mind.
President Obama now joins the group of Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, and Yasser Arafat as Nobel Peace Prize winners. I think that says it all. George Bush liberated 50 million muslims from tyranny and he is looked upon as a war monger. President Obama is in the process of enabling Iran to go nuclear and he is looked upon as promoting peace. When the Middle East explodes because of the anti-Israel stands of this administration, will the Nobel Peace Prize Committee ask for a recount?
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