Americans are waking up this morning to learn President Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. The President was awarded the prize because of his "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."
Because the nation is very polarized right now I'm betting most people fall roughly in line with one of the following schools of thought.
"I'm glad the President was recognized for his efforts to restore America's image in the world."
Or
"He got the Nobel Peace Prize for going around the world and apologizing for everything America's ever done."
Because I try not to post too many things about politics on this blog, for months I never completed a post I started about President Obama. It was titled "Let's Not Start Sucking the President's Dick Quite Yet."
That's a bastardization of The Wolf's famous line from "Pulp Fiction" but it just means "maybe we're getting a little ahead of ourselves."
At the time I was inspired by an article suggesting in 50 years schoolchildren would be learning about Presidents Washington, Lincoln and Obama.
I'm sure no matter how you answered the above question you probably would agree that pronouncement and the Nobel Peace Prize may be a little premature.
Because The Wolf knew Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield (and I guess President Obama too) did a great job cleaning up a mess, but congratulations don't come until we see results.
World peace is a results business.
Friday, October 09, 2009
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2 comments:
I like the guy, but I'm definitely on board with the "too early" sentiment.
Saddam Hussein was once given the Key to the city of Detroit.
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