Nobel Prize Hoopla
October 9th 2009 19:27
Today, President Obama has been honored with the coveted Nobel Peace Prize. The hoopla surrounding this win seems to be the question of what has he done, in less than a year of his Presidency, that deserves this high honor? As much of a supporter of the President as I am, I can honestly sit here and say not much when you size him up next his prize winning predecessors. But the major task that he accomplished that I personally never thought I'd live to see is that he was able to bring a divided country (on all levels, not just political) together for one moment on one day to cast their vote for a change that we've never seen before. Yes, we've had Democratic Presidents before, but never in our entire history have we had a viable African American candidate to make it as far as Barack Obama in the primaries and on up through being the sole Democratic candidate against John McCain.
I'm only old enough to have voted 3 times (2000, 2004, 2008) and in the previous two elections that ended in the mistake that was George W. Bush, I had never seen the turnout of people like I did last year. The 2008 election united not just African Americans and other minorities, but brought together young folks who wanted a major change in the makeup of our leadership and the older folks who never would have imagined they'd be casting a vote for a minority, nonetheless, a black man for President! For once, in a long while, it was as if this country put aside racial differences and decided to be united for one day and vote a radical change in the appearance of our country. By Obama's election, we finally showed the world, that our leader represents the makeup of the United States of America in that we are all of mixed heritages and backgrounds, not just caucasian. Even if this moment has swiftly disappeared back into our political and racial divides.
The world also stopped for that same moment to recognize that the USA was making a statement for once that didn't involve war, invasion, or threats to the terrorists of the universe. The world took note and joined in the celebration, the recognition, and the historical inauguration of President Obama. And today, the Nobel Peace Prize didn't award him for his accomplishments in his first 9 months of office, but instead chose (I'm assuming) to award him for his feat of pulling off such an incredible campaign and election to the white house as the first President of color. As an American, I must say that I'm truly proud to have a standing United States President receive such an honor. The last President to achieve this was Jimmy Carter in 2002 and former Vice President Al Gore in 2007, neither of which were actually still in office at the time of their awards. But for many Americans, especially the RNC, today isn't a patriotic acknowledgment to our leader.
The RNC's dancing puppet, Michael Steele, basically blasted and insulted the honor referencing the President's 'star power' taking away from some other deserving honoree. Along with this, the RNC continues to spew their bitching and whining as usual even going as far as saying that the Nobel Committee may have just 'cheapened' the honor by bestowing it upon the President. Gee, really? I wonder if they would have had the same sentiments if George W. or their God, Ronald Reagan, would have been given the award? If they had, I wouldn't have agreed with it because of my political hatred for both, but I would have been patriotic enough to be proud that my country's leader was given such a highly respected honor. I hate to sound petty, but I really do think the RNC just doesn't have anything better to do than to spend the next 3 years attempting to destroy every ounce of integrity and decency left in the United States Government in order to ensure that this country doesn't ever decide to be bold enough to vote for someone other than a Good Ol' Boy or a pampered Aristocratic caucasian.
Instead of spouting venom against our own leader, the RNC, if anything could at least show some kind of decorum and shut the hell up for once! They would be better off acknowledging the honor of a standing President being recognized in a patriotic way, instead of demonizing and demoralizing the Nobel Prize committee for possibly 'gifting' Obama. Michael Steele and his strings should be put back into his box until the next show, and cues should be taken instead from John McCain, who at least has the sense to politely respect the award and the honor and keep his personal feelings towards the question of the President's accomplishments to himself. Even Mike Huckabee is trying to wrangle his ignorant party into understanding that their constant negativity is becoming a joke and something to likely come back and bite them in the ass in the 2012 Presidential election!
Today, the President wins the Nobel Peace Prize and Republicans are upset. Tomorrow the President will be right back to battling health care reform, stabilizing the economy, wars, and God knows whatever else. The Republican party will still be angry. Oh well, at least for today we can join in the hoopla and either rejoice in the recognition or be bitter about it. I choose to move on to something else just as our President, I'm sure, has too.
The RNC's dancing puppet, Michael Steele, basically blasted and insulted the honor referencing the President's 'star power' taking away from some other deserving honoree. Along with this, the RNC continues to spew their bitching and whining as usual even going as far as saying that the Nobel Committee may have just 'cheapened' the honor by bestowing it upon the President. Gee, really? I wonder if they would have had the same sentiments if George W. or their God, Ronald Reagan, would have been given the award? If they had, I wouldn't have agreed with it because of my political hatred for both, but I would have been patriotic enough to be proud that my country's leader was given such a highly respected honor. I hate to sound petty, but I really do think the RNC just doesn't have anything better to do than to spend the next 3 years attempting to destroy every ounce of integrity and decency left in the United States Government in order to ensure that this country doesn't ever decide to be bold enough to vote for someone other than a Good Ol' Boy or a pampered Aristocratic caucasian.
Instead of spouting venom against our own leader, the RNC, if anything could at least show some kind of decorum and shut the hell up for once! They would be better off acknowledging the honor of a standing President being recognized in a patriotic way, instead of demonizing and demoralizing the Nobel Prize committee for possibly 'gifting' Obama. Michael Steele and his strings should be put back into his box until the next show, and cues should be taken instead from John McCain, who at least has the sense to politely respect the award and the honor and keep his personal feelings towards the question of the President's accomplishments to himself. Even Mike Huckabee is trying to wrangle his ignorant party into understanding that their constant negativity is becoming a joke and something to likely come back and bite them in the ass in the 2012 Presidential election!
Today, the President wins the Nobel Peace Prize and Republicans are upset. Tomorrow the President will be right back to battling health care reform, stabilizing the economy, wars, and God knows whatever else. The Republican party will still be angry. Oh well, at least for today we can join in the hoopla and either rejoice in the recognition or be bitter about it. I choose to move on to something else just as our President, I'm sure, has too.
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