11 Days Of Glory

And you are surprised why?

The Nobel committee announced their decision regarding Barack Hussein Obama as their choice for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. Even though the Messiah had only been in office for 11 days prior to the deadline for name submission the committee insists that their unanimous decision is based on his accomplishments and not what he may do in the future.

Worldwide the news seemed to catch many by surprise and actually seemed to anger a few previous recipients. My guess is because this decision exposes the sham this once noble award has become.

If the goal of the voting committee was to make the 2007 recipient Al Gore look more worthy they picked just about the only guy that could do that. The only problem is that in order to make this year’s recipient look more worthy they may actually have to give the 2010 award to Kim Jong-il.

The award came as absolutely no surprise to me or anyone else familiar with Chicago style voting practices. If in fact the president’s chief political advisor David Axelrod and Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel had anything to do with this selection the vote probably came in with 30 or 40 now deceased committee members voting in unison for Obama. The way it works in Chicago is you decide the vote total you want at the start and then “count” the votes to make it happen. It is also possible that ACORN was responsible for registering the proper number of voting committee members to insure the predetermined outcome.

All that aside, picking Obama was the only choice these learned committee members, both dead and alive, could make.

First off they haven’t picked a black to receive the prize since Kenyan environmental and political activist Wangari Maathai in 2004. In this time of politically correct and socially mandated diversity, picking another non-black could have been seen as racist. While the International Olympic Committee has a lock on black participation in their sporting events and therefore black support for their existence the Nobel committee is not afforded that same luxury. Secondly it has been 7 years since the committee bestowed the award on a staunch anti-Semite and completely feckless US president, having given it to Jimmy Carter way back in 2002. You had to figure it was time. Finally, they certainly could have given a second Peace Prize posthumously to 1994 recipient Yasser Arafat. After all, look at the lasting peace recipients Arafat and Carter were able to broker in the Middle East. But they probably saw the picture of Obama in his native head-covering and figured “hey, he’ll do”.

The award may be called the Peace Prize, but I believe the committee looked beyond that narrow designation and felt compelled to make up for the recent snub Obama was dealt, not by the IOC’s decision to go to Rio instead of Chicago in 2016, but by noted peace activist Osama Bin Laden in his latest version of the Oprah Book Club.

Bin Laden released a list of must read literature to his band of merry jihadists which included two of past Peace Prize recipient’s Jimmy Carter’s books. Sadly neither of Obama’s million selling tomes made this prestigious list. I’m guessing that receiving this prize will give him the much needed push to get the thumbs up for next year’s Bin Laden Book Club list.

All in all it is quite an honor for Obama to be named the 2009 Peace Prize recipient. Well, at least for Obama. Not so much for the previous recipients who actually did something.

Keep an eye on E Bay. I think the Dalai Lama, Lech Walesa and Elie Wiesel may have theirs listed there soon.