Please, someone, explain the reason why Barack Obama is being given a Nobel Peace Prize. I just don’t get the thought process behind this.
OSLO – President Barack Obama entered the pantheon of Nobel Peace Prize winners with humble words Thursday, acknowledging his own few accomplishments while delivering a robust defense of war and promising to use the prestigious prize to “reach for the world that ought to be.”
A wartime president honored for peace, Obama became the first sitting U.S. president in 90 years and the third ever to win the prize — some say prematurely. In this damp, chilly Nordic capital to pick it up, he and his wife, Michelle, whirled through a day filled with Nobel pomp and ceremony.
And yet Obama was staying here only about 24 hours and skipping the traditional second day of festivities. This miffed some in Norway but reflects a White House that sees little value in extra pictures of the president, his poll numbers dropping at home, taking an overseas victory lap while thousands of U.S. troops prepare to go off to war and millions of Americans remain jobless.
While I have to agree that non-violence doesn’t defeat armies I cannot understand the type of twisted thinking that has to take place to give a guy fighting two different wars a peace prize. Shouldn’t we wait for him to broker peace somewhere in the world before we reward him for it? Perhaps I’m just mentally slow.