Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize.

Just so we keep this in perspective, Jimmy Carter also won this award once.

The US president, Barack Obama, was today awarded the 2009 Nobel peace prize “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples”.

The Nobel committee said “only rarely has a person such as Obama captured the world’s attention and given his people hope for a better future”.

“His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world’s population,” the citation said.

via Nobel peace prize awarded to Barack Obama | World news | guardian.co.uk .

2 quick things:

Who gave ordinary middle eastern citizens more hope that one day they wouldn’t be thrown off a building for being gay or buried up to their chins and stoned to death for daring to be seen in public with a man who was not related to her….than George W. Bush? Democracy in Iraq was a pipe dream…and would continue to be a pipe dream…had not Bush LED the charge of freedom by FORCING it on a barbaric and tyrannical government. Which by the way also condoned terrorism.

And since when is “leadership” defined by how will you ape the values of the majority? I though LEADERSHIP was doing what was RIGHT despite what the majority was doing. At least that’s what I’m going to teach my son one day. In short, the lesson will go something like this—”Be nothing like Barack Obama, son. Be NOTHING like him.”

So keep your Nobel Peace prize, Obama. You’ll need it to score speaking gigs and book deals when you’re long gone from your current job.