So, I wake up this morning and go through my usual routine. Make a pot of coffee and sit down to roll through my favorite sites – Cincinnati sports page, ESPN, Yahoo Fantasy Football, Facebook but WAIT. Something catches my eye on my Facebook home page. My friend Susan wrote, “Did I just see that Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize?”. I say to myself, surely not! What would he have won it for? So, I hop over to the Drudge Report, my last stop on my morning routine and there it is, “OBAMA WINS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE TO MIXED REVIEWS.” What???? I think even GW is scratching his head on this one. 
Did I miss something here? I start scanning my memory banks for everything Obama has done in office for the past 9 months, and I’m trying to come up with something he did that is Nobel Peace Prize worthy. I’m coming up with a blank, and so my only rational explanation is that Obama used the Ben 10 Omnitrix on himself to transform into a hero in the eyes of the Norwegian Nobel Committee. Did he just pull an Optimus Prime? That’s the only explanation, right? I mean, I’m not normally a fan of the Taliban (that is, not at all), but there quote seems to make the most sense:
The Nobel prize for peace? Obama should have won the ‘Nobel Prize for escalating violence and killing civilians’
Ok, maybe it’s a bit extreme, but I get what they are saying. Obama has sent 21,000 extra troops to Afghanistan in his reign of office, and is considering sending 40,000 more. Now, I’m not saying that is the wrong move from a military standpoint, but it seems like a pretty decent red flag to have on the resume of a Nobel Peace Prize candidate. This just all seems odd to me. Seriously, did nobody else this year do something more peace worthy then send 21,000 troops to a war? I recommended some friends to buy tasers for themselves for protection. Can I be up for the prize?
Weird. I believe Barack is about change, and he has proposed some great plans for worldwide diplomacy, but until some of these speeches are changed to history, let’s give the prizes and gifts to the people who deserve them. Shall we?
