After hearing Barack Obama won a Nobel Peace Prize, my initial gut reaction was shock. How did President Obama suddenly join the ranks among influencers like Mother Theresa and Martin Luther King Jr?
I openly asked this question on my facebook page and was met with an answer that made me stop and think,
“..Martin Luther King Jr. won it before the civil rights bill was passed, Nelson Mandela won it before the end of apartheid, Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, and Yitzhak Rabin won the peace prize before there was peace between the Israelis and Palestinians and there still isn’t peace between them…”
This response prompted further research about the Nobel Peace Prize, what it meant, how it was awarded, and some digging about previous winners and nominations.
Upon visiting NobelPrize.org – the first thing I noticed was the deadline for nominations, February. Barack Obama was inaugurated as President of the United States on January 20th, 2009. My friend’s comments about other’s receiving the prestigious award before their goals were met was still in the back of my mind, but…what could Obama have possibly done in 12 days to warrant being awarded a Nobel Peace Prize?
172 individuals were nominated for this year’s Peace Prize, the highest number of nominations ever. Among those “less deserving” nominees were a female doctor from Afghanistan who is outspoken for women’s rights and has been threatened for questioning Sharia law, as well as a Colombian politician who helped secure the release of 16 hostages and was kidnapped herself 10 years ago.
Anyone with a brain can see these acts are menial compared to Obama’s efforts to “strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between people.” Riiiight.
So what did Obama do?
Many supporters rave about Obama’s ability to inject Americans with hope, to unite our country under the promise of progress. In my opinion, this reduces the public to the slowest possible movement toward social advancement. It pushes people to think that the US is in such turmoil that there is nothing tangible to hold onto, that we can only all be linked in ‘hoping’ that the situation can and will improve. It also provides no motivation. “If you can just hang in there, and have hope, the government will help you.” Well, I really hope to meet Santa this Christmas, to lose 5 pounds, and own a house – but hope doesn’t bring things into existence. Hope doesn’t make things happen.
Change doesn’t come from words, or from hope. Change comes from action, tangible goals, and a leader who stands on a platform of experience. A leader with the knowledge that the people he leads have abilities much greater and far reaching than hope.
.Alleigh
What you have to understand about the Nobel Peace Prize is that is not about advancing the progress of the human race through peaceful methods, science or anthing remotely associated to peace anymore. It has been hijacked by an agenda to achieve total peace in the world through total control of humanity (AKA Socialist Rule). Alfred Nobel the creator of dynamite probably wanted to use this award for advancement of peace through science in my opinion but of course it is just an opinion. Take a look at this short list of more recent winners.
1. Wangari Maathai (2004) Blamed the spread of and its creation of HIV on white scientists who wanted to commit genocide against blacks.
2. AL Gore (2007) Not for invention of the internet but for having 6 scientific errors associated with his one sided non scientific lie the “Inconvenient Truth” ( He still can’t tell anyone who his scientists are)Just to try and kill capitalism which he used to profit on his lies in the movie.
3. Rigoberta Menchú (1992) Lied in a book about her life growing up in Guatamala just to push her leftist teachings.
4. Yasser Arafat (1994) Known terrorist leader and oppressor of his people while he and his wife lived off the money the world gave to Palistine for economic growth and recovery (his poor widowed wife still resides in France where she lives a lavish life).
5. Cordell Hull (1945) FDR’s Secretary of State who deliberatly sent 950 Jews back to NAZI Germany in 1939 after their attempt to flee before the escalation of genocide ( he threatned to pull his support from FDR in the 1940 election so good ole roosevelt sent them to captivity and eventual death for most for campaign support).
6. Kofi Annan (2001) Not confirmed but implicated with the rest of his goons in the U.N. Oil for food scandal. Pretty sure he benefitted from it like the Russians, French and Chinese.
7. Mikhail Gorbachev (1990) Credit for the end of the Cold War ( Not Reagan who stood steadfast against the USSR communist rule and other tyrannical governments, and financialy bankrupted them)
I am sure you see the pattern of modern day progressives, socialists, communists, terrorists, thugs, thieves, liars, propogandists and anti-semetic persons who won the award. In other words we will force the people of the world into believing that these people are great and hopefully they will follow like sheep to slaughter. Obama has definetly given us hope again, We hope that when we boot his a** in his cronies out of their offices in 2010, we will be able to restore this great nation back to where it belongs, we hope that those that voted in these clowns leading our country have a change of ideals and do the right thing in 2010, we hope that it is not to late to change the socialist programs being created as we speak and most of all we hope that the next person elected to the most powerful position of the world remembers what it is to be an American and not an extension of the European Union.
The Common Guy