Unexpectedly remarkable! I know nobody that had predicted President Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Most shockingly, he won it within 10 months of being President and weeks after he got the nomination.
The first reason that I can think of when they gave the award, was the love story the world had and still has with President Obama. Even though the Republicans think that his foreign standing is diminished after the Olympics “fiasco”, the fact is that President Obama is really loved internationally. You can forget anyone trying to throw a shoe at him internationally.
They also respect the manner he brought our country from having a unilateral foreign policy to a multilateral ones. In all frankness, this is something that is very unique about President Obama. The world has often viewed American foreign policy as one that is full of arrogance even though we literally rebuilt the world after World War 2. That ended with President Obama.
Another reason for his victory could be the reaction the right wing has given him. The sheer lack of respect is disgusts them. The world is stunned when they see people carrying racist signs becoming a part of the opposition to President Obama. Most countries, particularly the developed ones, have universal health-care and they loathe it when the opposition go around spreading BS like death panels and rationing health-care.
I am not saying that there are no merits for the President’s victory. He has done more to get rid the world of nuclear weapons more than any in history. His mere presence alone was enough to heal the division between the Muslim world and the West. He made America lovable once more. He became a world icon because he speaks well and his stance on the issues, to the world in general, are the right ones. To put it simply, the world is in sync with President Obama’s mentality and issues.
There are some factors of him winning the Nobel prize that are of question. For one, how can a person who is running 2 wars be winning the penultimate peace prize? Other than all the talk, what has the President really accomplished? He cannot even take on the Republicans on issues like health-care, how in the world is he going to take on China and Iran? However, until I see the rest of the short-list, I would not take the victory from the President.
I am also blown away by the official Republican reaction. Why can’t they have the reaction that Senator McCain had? Why can’t we be proud that our President has won the peace prize? Why can we see the President as American, not as a Democrat? If President Bush (43) won the same prize, I would laugh and think that it was a joke, but I would not go around hating it. He was my President, the head of state of my country. I think that it is utterly disgraceful, the manner the wing-nut Republicans hate this and how some love it when Chicago lost the Olympic bid..
Lastly, I think that this would be of no effect to President Obama’s presidency at all. It is not going to help him ensure that Virginia remains blue, it is not going to help him get health care reform the way he wants it, etc. It is, after all the talk, ineffectual to Americans. It could be helpful if he wants to run as the General Secretary of the UN, but we do not give a freak about our President winning the Nobel Prize.
