President Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace prize. The point they keep making in the news is that the committee (whoever they are) had to make this decision in the very first weeks of his Presidency.
What are the political implications of this decision? How can we make sense out of this? Some people want to be hateful about it and say he should return it. They are screaming their heads off as usual. It’s a sham! Send it back! This is politically motivated! He doesn’t deserve it!
What are they mad about? Do they think this is the first time the awarding of the Nobel Peace prize is politically motivated? Are they mad George Bush never rec’d it? Well let me tell ya, that is one man who would never get it, by any committee. That’s because he did so much in the opposite direction, he set us back a few hundred years in time. Not only did he start the Iraq war for his own political and monetary gain, he ended US involvement in the reduction of nuclear arms, in protection and improvement of the environment and ending pollution of our oceans. He refused to participate in the promotion of advancement of women and ending of the violence and lack of education most women of the world face— causes for which the rest of Europe has backed for decades, causes for which there are global conferences which, under Bush, we did not participate in. He refused to attend.
I think this award has more to do with a statement against BUSH than a statement of Obama’s accomplishments. But they knew the direction Obama was going. They believed in his continued support for those directions, and they knew he would live up to his promises. This vote is also a statement of warning to Obama: you’d better do it now. You better keep going, because we’ve given you this award. We expect you to live up to it.
All in all, I’m okay with it. I think it is rather embarrassing for him. And he said so himself. But he should keep it. Because when it’s all said and done, he will have brought us so, SO much closer to world peace than we’ve been near to it for the past 30 years, since Reagan came in. This is a statement that the rest of our “peers” around the globe see Obama as THE man of hope, the cause of renewed vision, where it was utterly lacking before him. They hope that America will now mature enough to stand together with them to take a stand on world poverty, take a stand on reducing the horrific and senseless nuclear arms that have proliferated and put us all at risk of extinction, take a stand on reducing the unthinkable pollution we are emptying into our air and oceans. Let’s turn this world around. Turn our course, baby, we’re behind you.
Doctor Grandma 
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