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Nobel Peace Prize?

I get up and check the headlines every morning. This morning I about fell out of my chair. Our illustrious, wet-behind-the-ears president was just awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009. "A beaming Obama told reporters in the White House Rose Garden that he wasn't sure he had done enough to earn the award, or deserved to be in the company of the others who had won it before him." (AP, today) Truer words were never spoken, by Obama. Although I do have to disagree about the "company" he's now in. He is perfectly in line with the sham winners that precede him: Yasser Arafat, Al Gore and Jimmy Carter. Arafat--who never did anything but subvert the peace process with Israel and line his pockets with the world's money; Carter--who is arguably the worst president in U.S. history; and Gore--who pounced on the fraudulent global warming movement and is getting rich doing it.

And actually, I guess I disagree with Obama's entire statement (that's odd). He HAS done enough to win the Nobel Peace Prize. He has spent the first few months of his reign giving speeches all over the world apologizing for the horrible, stinking, awful United States of America. He has promised to cripple our economy by bowing to the world-wide green movement and disarm us as quickly as possible. Now I know how to win a Nobel Peace Prize. Obviously the elite intelligentsia in Europe could not wait to crown him--they probably made their decision the night he was elected--and they couldn't be happier to finally see this kind of "leadership" at the helm of the United States. This is not an honor. If it is recognizing Obama for finally meeting the world's standards, then I'm ashamed and embarrassed for our country. We are in deep trouble and there isn't enough Dramamine in the world to keep me from spending the day vomiting.

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