Really World?

Ahead of the hours of the world in as far off place as Baghdad, Iraq, I was just put into shock. President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. The first thing that pops into my head is for what? I scratch my head and try and think of what our President has done since he was elected a year ago. I'm still thinkin...

Being that my Middle School Alma Mader was Alfred B. Nobel Middle School, I know one or two things about the fellow that the prize was named after. Mr. Nobel was a Swedish Chemist, who lived in the second half of the 19th century. His family business was in manufacturing explosives. Nobel's claim to fame is creating a more stable explosive than nitroglycerin, and it's what we know as TNT. He had some reservations about what his invention had the power to do. He left behind a fund for annual awards to be given, called Nobel Prizes in several different areas, including literature, physics, chemistry to just name a few, and of course finally the most romanticized one of all, the Nobel Prize for the promotion of international peace.

I know that President Obama has certainly made a lot of promises, and even put in a little bit of effort on a global scale to repair some relations with his 'diplomacy.' But telling Russia that we should downsize our Nuclear Warhead stockpiles is so far just a pipe dream. Those commies, who already have more than us couldn't even keep track of their suit-case nukes when they crumbled in 1989. Do we really expect them to just oblige, and do you really expect us to start destroying our own? Don't let the promise of peace fool you, the best promised peace is the one backed up with a big stick.

Obama has done a lot in his first year. A lot of promising. The promises haven't even begun to take any kind of effect, and the only things that have changed are not for bettering the world but for reshaping America into a new kind of monster, one with all the power at the head. Something we have fought for not allowing for more than 200 years. And yet, our deficit promises to increase, despite even the criticism Obama directly gave to the Bush administration for it's budgeting. And yet, the projected deficit this year for Obama is 1.75 Trillion, triple 454.8 Billion from Bush's office in 2008. Go world peace.

He also hasn't pulled out the troops in Iraq like he said he 'was' going to. And in addition he will have added and additional 60 thousand troops to Afghanistan. So much for stopping the war. The Federal law for emissions regulations hasn't passed, and furthermore even if it does, how does that have anything to do with peace, and what difference will it make when countries like China and Russia have no restrictions on what they put into our atmosphere.

Perhaps he won it for allowing the government to purchase the majority of the three major American auto-makers Ford, GM and Chrysler, and handpick CEO's to run them, even though our whole economy is based on free enterprise and capitalism, something the government should have no hand in. Not too mention bailing out all the banks, and giving handouts to the special interest group ran agencies. Where the hell is my bail out? It's all for world peace. And peace it will be when the Prez stops people from protecting themselves, amending the second amendmant. Putting more restrictions on our freedom of speech with the "Fairness Doctrine." And allows the government to control credit cards and mortgages too.

Does anyone else not see what is happening here? Everyone is still in the honey moon with Barack, and before they know it, this country will be socialist, or communist and we'll all be fearing our government. Blood or pity are sure to ensue. But somehow the world is even fooled. No they aren't, they're just fooling us. America is getting weaker, and that is good for all the countries who haven't been in the sun due to the shadow we cast among them. They no longer fear our leader, he's a softy, a pushover who will apologize for what must be done. The respect for our country is going down. Don't believe me, talk to any Iraqi here. If that's not world opinion I don't know what is. We are being fooled, and led blindly like the sheep we have become. Just like the Romans we've lived to long without knowing what it was like before we had it made. We forget the sacrifices that we must make, and the victories we must achieve to keep ourselves safe, and free.

What has been done? What is so much better, how more aware are people since Obama has been in office? How is peace being delivered through the change of America? Nobel Peace Prize, you can apparently be given out for an idea. As Desmond Tutu would say of the awardee, "It is an award that speaks to the promise of President Obama's message of hope." Yes that's right, you just got awarded the Stanley Cup because you have the hope that your team is going to win.


"I don't think Obama deserves this. I don't know who's making all these decisions. The prize should go to someone who has done something for peace and humanity," said Ahmad Shabir, 18-year-old student in Kabul. "Since he is the president, I don't see any change in U.S. strategy in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan." -I couldn't agree more