I was quite shocked when I learned they had awarded President Obama the Nobel Peace Prize.
I’ve made no secret of my support for Obama, and my contempt for those taking cheap and desperate shots at him and his administration.
But, something about this Nobel Peace Prize has me in a stir.
I wasn’t quite sure what I thought for quite a while, but it was the video of a young woman on You Tube that helped me figure it out.
My first problem was that I really didn’t think he had done much yet – or even had a CHANCE to do much yet. I then thought of other winners of Nobel prizes and what they had accomplished. They spent years, and significant portions of their life on this Earth in actually accomplishing things they were awarded the prize for. I then realized that the enemies of our President must be in a real tizzy – and I realized I might have to agree with them, at least in part, on something.
I understand the profound importance and significance of President Obama becoming our first black President. That is certainly a profound achievement. I’ve always thought of it as the achievement of a society. Maybe if they awarded a Nobel Prize for “most improved democracy” or “country most likely to learn to get out of its own way…”
My biggest fear is that we’ve loaded the guns of those trying to turn our President and the hopes of a nation into a cartoon. They’ve tried to paint us as a cult of personality. While I don’t agree with them, I think their argument just got stronger.
Then I realized – they just awarded the Nobel prize to a sitting President of a nation that is still sending troops into a country it invaded. Whether or not the Taliban are boogy men, responsible for 9/11, or just great big douche bags is beside the point. We are *still* waging war.
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