People are shocked today that Barack Obama, after nine months in office, has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Why? Not why did President Obama win. Why are people shocked? If Vegas had run odds on it, Barack Obama would have been a 5 to 2 favorite, followed by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at 5 to 1, with George W Bush the long shot at 1,000,000,000,000 to 1. I would have been surprised if President Obama didn’t win, just look at his resume…

·         Replaced George W Bush
·         Doesn’t want America to be a super power
·         Seeks to work with despots and dictators
·         Pulled troops out of Iraq
·         Bad mouths the US
·         Loves to spend time outside the US
·         Thinks global warming will kill us all
·         Favors open borders
·         Wants socialist style health care in the US
·         Blames Bush for everything wrong with the world
·         Is ‘diverse’
·         Grew up overseas

I will be shocked if the President does not win the prize every year he is in office, well maybe not every year, you never know when a Yasser Arafat might come along. Yes Yasser Arafat the Jew hater and former terrorist won the prize. Former head of the UN Kofi Annan also won it; you’ll remember Annan from the Iraq oil for food scandal. Annan’s son received money from a company that won a lucrative contract from the UN. Just the kind of upstanding people you would expect to receive such a prestigious honor.

After the cold war Mikhail Gorbachev won the Nobel Peace Prize. What about Ronald Reagan? He was the man most responsible for bringing down the iron curtain. President Reagan won the cold war, defeated communism, defeated tyranny, enacted fiscal policies that allow citizens to prosper throughout the 1980’s, and was also an eloquent speaker. And he didn’t get a sniff of the Nobel Prize. President Obama is here nine months, talks about hope and change and he wins it straight away! I can see why people are shocked but they shouldn’t be.

Despite his ‘impressive record’ since taking office, President Obama did not have to actually do anything to win, literally. Nobel Prize nominations were due by February 1^st 2009; just days after President Obama took office. The President did not even have time to get the water bill put into his name before international elites were nominating him to for the Nobel Peace Prize. I highly doubt this is what Alfred Nobel had in mind when he established the Peace Prize. This would be like handing out the NFL MVP award before the season. By definition, awards are given for achievements, not achievements one might do sometime in the future. This the Nobel Prize for crying out loud, not a high school ‘most likely to succeed’ contest. 

If I were in charge, the US military would win the Nobel Peace Prize. Think about it, what group does more to prevent radical Muslim terrorists and other evil doers from killing innocent people? Certainly not the UN or amnesty international, perhaps President Obama was given the prize because he is the commander-in-chief of the US military.