The announcement that Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize was as revealing as it was stunning. But let us first examine the process which brought him this “honor”. What the average person does not know is that nominations for the award must be in by no later than February first. This means that he did something between inaugural day (January 20, 2009) and the first of February to distinguish himself. It has to be asked what could anyone – even Lincoln, Washington, Gandhi, or Mother Theresa – have done in such a short span of time to justify such a decision?

            We must now wonder if he is found to be watching a football game does that entitle him to the Heisman Trophy? Or if he is known to have read a book will that qualify him for the Pulitzer Prize? Or if it leaks out that he put a band aid on his kid’s finger will it make him a licensed physician? The entire concept is beyond preposterous and betrays what we have all known for a long time which is that the Nobel committee is a joke. It awards prizes not for actual accomplishments but for anyone of influence who espouses and promotes a globalist socialist agenda. There is now no doubt whatsoever of the purpose for the prize and that it has finally sunken to the gutter lows of the Academy Awards.

            Yet another fragment is demonstrated by this decision. This is to illustrate for all the world to see what the value system is for liberals. It proves that leftists feel that standards are more than meaningless but downright evil. It proves that to them it is more important to produce feel good symbolism than palpable and substantive results.