I got this from fellow South Carolina blogger Brian McCarty, who writes "Voting Under the Influence," and there's some stuff I just didn't know about Barack Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
While folks (including me) are still wondering what Obama did to win the prestigious award (it's like Most Valuable Player), you have to admit he's in some pretty fast company: Yasser Arafat (1994), Kofi Annan (2001), Jimmy Carter (2002), and Al Gore (2007). Not to mention the 1973 award, which Henry Kissinger shared with North Vietnam's Le Duc Tho. Tho turned down his award, saying nothing really changed in 'Nam. Plenty of intentions, but short on results.
Top 9 Reasons Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize..(not) straight from the Nobel Committee
9) Some guys from Chicago reminded us that a boss like Obama should be given the proper respect.
8) The other guy we were considering had this thing once with a chubby girl.
7) That Joe Wilson thing really pissed us off.
6) Hans has a brother in law in GITMO his wife wants home for Christmas.
5) W. never invited any of us to his ranch, so take that, Mr. Ex-President.
4) We had to be fair. Gorbachev won the prize after losing a war in Afghanistan.
3) Obama promised us the United States will be on the metric system and embrace soccer and warm beer.
2) We denied him the Olympics. We are dissing the American Dollar. We got to do something to keep Obama happy. After all, that brother still has the nukes.
1) China told us to reward Obama for his good behavior.
OK. Now you know.
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You tell me: Can you think of any other reasons a sitting president who has been in office only a few months would get such an award? Is the Nobel Peace Prize trivialized, as it seems? I welcome comments ...
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