Obama Peace Prize Disgraces Nobel Award Process

As an American I am proud that President Barack ObamaBarack Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, but as a citizen of the world I am left scratching my head. What exactly has Barack Obama done to deserve this award? Show up for work? Make a speech? Shake a hand?

For this miscarriage of recognition I do not blame Barack Obama, I blame the Nobel Prize Committee. I mean, I am left pondering what their criteria for this award is and how it’s determined. From what I have been able to learn, the “award” votes were made in mid-November, a week or so after Obama was elected president.

Trust me, I would like nothing better for Barack Obama to have won this award at some point in his presidency after he had accomplished something significant, but ten months into his presidency the man has accomplished “jack squat” (as they said on Saturday Night Live).

In fact, President Obama has continued many of President BushPresident Bush’s objectionable policies such as rendition of terrorists to other countries, deadly Predator strikes on unsuspecting Al Qaeda leaders, and increasing troop levels in Afghanistan. Even as the award was announced, President Obama has been contemplating increasing troop levels in Afghanistan of up to 60,000 troops.

So what you do, internationally, has less to do with who you are as a person or leader then who you are politically. Another reminder that the world that the United States has saved from destruction on more than one occasion (you're welcome Europe, Asia, Australia, and the rest of the world) will always be the target of those we have saved to despise our independence and strength.

A lesson that Nobel Prize Award Winner President Barack Hussein Obama has yet to learn...perhaps that is why he won the award afterall.