Can the crescendo surrounding President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize win just stop already? If you disagree with his nomination, complaining about it is not going to give the prize to someone else. He won - get over it. Any disagreements with this statement do not need to be voiced on the news for week after week. Yeah, say your view after it happens - it's your Constitutional right. But don't keep doing so for weeks. Please.
The Nobel nomination committee never claimed to be disinterested in American politics, nor to refrain from choosing a party line. The Committee is not Obama's minion or under the 'celebrity spell' like some conservatives claim. If Obama's plans for peace are in alignment with those of the Committee's, then why shouldn't he win? Because some conservative radio host doesn't agree? - yeah right.
Obama did an inordinate amount of work to change American foreign policy in a relatively short period of time. He took Bush's flagrant disregard for other countries and turned the US into a nation, willing to talk and negotiate for common interests. Our world image is now more friendly and less imperialistic/bossy. Obama also ordered Guantanimo Bay to be closed, stopping torture (and promoting peace) and he plans to end the Iraq war in a responsible way.
Just his effort in nine months is so much more than Bush actually accomplished for peace in eight years.
So Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. Its great for some (including me) and not so great for others. But its not going to un-happen (yeah, I know its not a word - just thought it fit). So get it off the news please; there is new stuff going on TODAY.
You tell them Allison! And for those of you who think that the commander in chief of the US military should not be winning peace prizes, then that view should apply to Theodore Rooosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Jimmy Carter Jr as well.
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