Nobel Peace Prize

Still, we are at war, and I'm responsible for the deployment of thousands of young Americans to battle in a distant land.  Some will kill, and some will be killed.  And so I come here with an acute sense of the costs of armed conflict -- filled with difficult questions about the relationship between war and peace, and our effort to replace one with the other.

Terrorism has long been a tactic, but modern technology allows a few small men with outsized rage to murder innocents on a horrific scale.

Iranian authorities have confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi's medal, the Norwegian government said Thursday, accusing Iran of a shocking first in the history of the prize.

Norwegian authorities were told that Ebadi's medal was seized "within the last week or so" from a safe-deposit box in Iran along with personal effects including the diploma awarded with the medal, the Foreign Ministry said.

Oslo, Norway -- "Obama! Obama! Obama!"

No, it's not a scene from the 2008 American presidential election. This is downtown Oslo and what you're hearing are the throngs of supporters for Barack Obama who gathered today to declare in one clear voice:

"You win at life, Mr. President!"



Since there is no official Nobel "Win at life" award, the committee settled instead for handing the American president the Nobel Peace Prize a mere 9 months months into his term. Despite Iran moving steadily closer to nuclear-ly destroying the only Jewish state in the entire universe and unemployment rates in the United Statesflying towards 10%, 

I suppose I am not surprised. The Nobel Peace Prize has long ago lost its credibility with me. With winners like Al Gore and Jimmy Carter, whose actually accomplishments are questionable, and with winners like Roosevelt and Wilson, who are political progressives instrumental in taking America heavily in a socialist direction, I long since accepted that the Peace Prize was a political ploy only these days. I don't think that is what Alfred Nobel originally intended, but here we are.

I guess the shock factor was the international support for Obama without any earning of it. Essentially, words and supposed intent seem to be all there is to go on, and to award such a prize within less than a year of office, it appears that political forces are at work to try to boost Obama's waning image. Obama has been losing ground of late, leading to a rapid reduction in how much he can get done on the agenda of he and his supporters. It was fairly obvious that Obama was being put up as a front-man, not having enough solid background or record of his own to be otherwise. The level of support he had without any substance under it was an indicator of that from the start. What I did not realize was that the support was international.

He Won It!!

Wow!! Our President has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today! What an accomplishment and how exciting for him. Despite all the naysayers, and negative comments, thoughts, pictures, videos that are out there about his policies  this could of not had been a better time.  It shows you that when you stay focused on your goals to make the world a better place someone takes notice and says thanks for helping us with this feat.

I am quite proud of him and glad that he is recognized as a peacemaker.  Yes some think it’s a joke which is quite sad to say the least but it is true. Everyone has an opinion one way or another but someone has recognized what he is doing and though we don’t see the behind the scenes all the time some on acknowledging that work for world peace is being done.

I am proud to know that he is the third sitting U.S. president to win the Nobel Prize for Peace — President Theodore Roosevelt won the award in 1906, President Woodrow Wilson in 1919 to receive such an honor.

I say keep your focus Mr. President and do the best you can with whatever resources you have available to you in the arena of check and balances.

Accolades, accolades, accolades.

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