Posted by
Bert Chapman on Friday, October 09, 2009 9:05:37 AM
Driving to work this morning, I was flabbergasted to hear that Barack Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize. Why? Has he actually done anything substantive to improve world peace or advance human freedom? Has he achieved reconciliation between the Arab world and Israelis? Did he secretly disarm the Iranians nuclear aspirations with a whisper to the mullahs? Has he achieved a permanent peace treaty between North and South Korea? Resolved the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan? Gotten the Chinese and Taiwanese to hold hands and break bread together? Did he persuade the Taliban to join the National Organization for Women? Of course, not! Perhaps, the Nobel Committee felt sympathy for Obama after his recent unsuccessful visit to Copenhagen to try and win the 2016 Olympics for Chicago.
This is an example of a bunch of morally muddled stupid secularist socialist Scandinavians falling over Obama in the throes of prepubescent puppy love. The Nobel Committee has become so enthralled with Obama's apologizing for America's purported sins during the Bush Administration, Obama's quixotic utopian desire to abolish nuclear weapons, and weaken our ballistic missile defense systems, that it has decided to bestow its blessing on Mr. "Change you can believe in" and his idealistic geopolitical stupidity. Unfortunately, Obama's dangerously delusional beliefs increase the likelihood of war and will only embolden the enthusiasm of anti-American governments and terrorist groups to strike against the U.S. and its allies. We also need to remember how intellectually and morally empty the Nobel Peace Prize has become. This "prize" has been awarded to Yasser Arafat, Jimmy Carter, and Al Gore and comparable leftist low lives.
America is slowly realizing that the "Messiah" is an emperor without clothes as our ongoing economic troubles and his attempts to impose statist solutions to our health care and energy problems demonstrate. Increasing numbers of independents are beginning to experience buyers remorse over letting themselves be seduced by the Chicago charlatan. Sadly, the seductive mist weaved by "the One" still lingers over the Scandinavian countryside and in various other international locales where purportedly progressive secularist cosmopolitanism is the preferred means for approaching international affairs policymaking. Obama will enjoy his moment in the Norwegian spotlight but his winning this prize will do nothing to advance the cause of human freedom and actually retard it.