Maggie's Farm

Here is the oddity:
As proud as I am to have an American (and a sitting president, no less, the first in about 90 years) as Nobel Peace Prize winner, I am confused over the reasons.

Obama HAD to be nominated roughly 2 weeks into the presidency meaning he'd done absolutely nothing when he was nominated.

So this is the Nobel HOPE for Peace Prize.

You know, as much as I am stunned by this, and consider the choice somehow LAME, I think the vitriol is misplaced. For one thing, it plays into the Obamaniacs' hands that we, as the opposition, are really just AGAINST OBAMA. It also carries the potential for the idiotic "racist" card. It also just sounds totally spiteful to be saying things against Obama for winning such a presitigious award.

So here is my take, and I hope many of you follow me in this, because it will deflate the Obamaniacs' egos and ultimately undermine their cult of personality as they view this award with a little PERSPECTIVE.

1. He was nominated 2 weeks after he was inaugurated. He'd done nothing then (still has done nothing up to now), but has shown the world a very good side of the United States because he is pleasant and looks good. So he may not have earned it, and that's indisputable, but he has altered the perception of the US (whether it's in a manner we agree with or not is meaningless).

2. He won the award, in reality, for the groundwork laid by ALL PREVIOUS US PRESIDENTS. While he got the award, his "perception" is meaningless without his predecessors. Had he not had Bush before him, not only would have been unlikely to have achieved the presidency, he would have not gotten the award. The US Presidency has, for years, played major roles in negotiating and defining solutions to world problems. Sometimes those solutions have required military action - and we have not been shy about using it. This is to the nation's credit - and Obama has benefited because he got the award as a benefit for being in a seat held by MANY previous peace loving men who laid a tremendous amount of groundwork that he has been lucky enough to gain from.

3. As US citizens, we should be proud that the US is recognized, no matter how, as a peace loving nation. It should matter little if Obama or Bill Gates (more deserving) won the award. As a US representative, the winner is less important than the nation in achieving peaceful solutions to world problems. Let Obama's name be on the award, but let the award define our nation.

4. As US citizens, we should continually REMIND Obama that the award is OURS, not his. We elected him, and without that election, he remains an obscure minor figure on the national stage, rather than a major figure on the world stage. He is nothing without the voting public - even those of us who did NOT vote for him, because he represents us.

5. As US citizens, we should continually REMIND Obama that his job is to fully represent us in a manner that will GENERATE PEACE - even if it means using the military. Thus, the award should not be a bribe to avoid increasing our presence in Afghanistan. The gains there (compared to the USSR's presence years ago) have come at a low cost, but remain fragile. It will require HIS COURAGE TO ENGAGE violence against those who oppose peace to make those gains permanent.



I am proud that a US representative has won. I think he is the wrong recipient, but that doesn't matter - we should be thankful we are being recognized for the years of work, the gallons of blood, and the billions of dollars spent attaining our position in the world so that Obama can have his ego stroked. This is OUR AWARD. Let him take it, let him call it his. But we know better. And that is all that matters. His ego will have a hollowness to it because he knows he didn't earn this. But we know, and we will remind him always, until he makes good on his promise.

You know, it's hard for me to disagree...but I have to, simply because by saying this, you lower yourself to THEIR level.

It's important for all of us opposing Obama that we MUST remain ABOVE his supporters. His supporters are the lowest of the low. They are mindless, feeble people who have no incentive, no vision, and are seeking a leader.

He is a leader. But he is blind to anything but his ego and the praise heaped upon his undeserving plate. He believes spending billions of someone else's money to buy an office that allows him to shift money from those who have to those he feels deserve it means that he "earned" something.

Still...he is the president, and we MUST respect that office.

And we MUST act in a fashion that is morally acceptable. Stooping to "racism" for our reasoning is THEIR crucifix, not ours.