I was glad to see Obama win the Nobel Prize, but not for reasons you may assume. You see, I delighted hearing the right-wing pundits squeal like mean-spirited pigs being run over by a slow-moving semi squeezing their guts all over the asphalt. Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Glen Beck more than deserve a hideous end. I want to hear it loud and clear, and as juicy as you can imagine as their voices hit every high octave left in their larynx. Indeed, they did squeal but lived to enjoy another day in radioland.
Even though I loved it, I too believed the award was not justified. Obama received the Nobel Prize for trying, not accomplishing. When you think about it, that’s a pretty desperate reason to give out an award. It won’t be the first time. Woodrow Wilson also received one for trying. That was after World War One. Wilson’s high-minded attempt to create a permanent peace also failed, a failure that resulted in the second World War. In Obama’s case he received the award for peace while engaged in two separate wars which he promised to immediately end if he were elected.
If it wasn’t for George Bush’s absolute idiocy, Obama would not be the President. Obama is truly a lucky guy who, somehow, happens to be in the right place at the right time. But is it deserved? I say it is un-American.
Generally Americans don’t give awards out for trying. The team that makes the playoffs for the Superbowl, simply gets a chance to win. They are good contenders, but they aren’t the winners until they actually win. Obama isn’t even near the end zone..
Coming in second in World War Two was not acceptable. Unconditional surrender was the only acceptable outcome that was clearly understood by the Nazis and Japanese. Why do you think we used the A-Bomb on Japan? Frankly, I don’t like the precedent that is being set here.
The Nobel Prize committee is obviously making a political statement. I believe this is a mistake for the Nobel Prize Committee to do. Remember, they are Europeans and long ago Europeans have given up the art of clear thinking and realistic decisions.
I believe they were fed up with Bush’s bullying. They wanted to reward good behavior. They lowered their standards and by doing so they set a different criteria than they use for chemistry, literature and other disciplines. The operative word here should be: Accomplishment. At least Arafat and Begin signed an agreement when they got their Nobels. It was an “A” For Effort.
Examine Obama’s accomplishments and you will find the jury is still out on concrete matters and fulfilling promises. Whether implied or not, none of Obama’s key campaign action items are in the accomplished column. One could contend that he hasn’t had enough time to show progress. I voted for him and wanted to see us get a national medical plan that competes with insurance companies. That ain’t in the cards.
I wanted Gitmo closed, which he promised. It’s still open. I wanted greedy financial houses to be better regulated. They used the rescue dollars to give themselves raises. Credit card abuses still continue, but it’s the card companies that are the abusers, not the consumers. It goes on and on. Most of all, I did not want more of the same. We got a lot more of the same. It just comes in a more palatable, more articulate package. This one looks like a statesman and acts more like an amateur wimp.
It’s true that Obama alone has not created the problems. We also need to reform the lawmakers and the process that permits such egregious behavior. Our government needs a brain transplant. The right wing wants to go back to the original intent by the constitutionalists. By representing the special interests over the public good, they couldn’t be more hypocritical. The left wing are simply too chaotic to band together for the common good. And the reasonable people in between are powerless.
Have you seen our lawmakers in action? They do not represent us. For the most part they are bought and paid for. Pathetically, we know this to be true. What they do is criminal. But it is legal criminality. And, there is an unwritten rule between law makers to let the minor crimes slide. Every once in a while something slips out or the crimes get so outrageous that they cannot be ignored. Small infractions lead to bigger ones. I say prosecute all of them, The minute we do this, and I mean really have zero-tolerance, will be the minute we start taking our country back.
We don’t control the system — money and power does. Yet we benignly accept the chicanery. Obama may have won a prize. But he’s losing the battle. The war we are fighting is overseas. But the real battleground is right here at home. It’s on the Washington beltway where there are over 25 lobbyists for every elected and appointed official. We will all lose if we let them win. They are winning and we are losing.
I was glad to see Obama win the Nobel Prize, but not for reasons you may assume. You see, I delighted hearing the right-wing pundits squeal like mean-spirited pigs being run over by a slow-moving semi squeezing their guts all over the asphalt. Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Glen Beck more than deserve a hideous end. I want to hear it loud and clear, and as juicy as you can imagine as their voices hit every high octave left in their larynx. Indeed, they did squeal but lived to enjoy another day in radioland.