No pressure then...?

It would not be an exerageration to say that this year’s recipient of the Nobel Prize for Peace was a shock. And yet the winner, President Barack Obama was as surprised as anyone.
“I won WHAT!!!!!...not even Kanye West is going to protest!”

Even his White House staff hadn’t any inclination. This is what happens when you go to Scandinavia with your foxy wife and loose the bid for the Olympics, you end up with a Nobel Peace Prize.

In fact I wonder if there was a mixed up on who was on what committee?

Or perhaps Michelle arranged it, a small gift for their seventeenth wedding anniversary.

Whatever the reason it certainly caught everyone off guard.

Maybe the Norwegians know something of an impending attack on Iran and this is their way of deterring such a disaster in the making. Or this is a final condemnation on the Bush / Cheney legacy, who wouldn’t know how to spell the word peace, let alone its meaning.

It is baffling because President Obama is prosecuting two wars (Although not of his making) and hasn’t yet closed down Guantanamo bay, Hmm…Not much peace there.

The World’s love affair with Obama is certainly endearing, but he hasn’t accomplished much yet and while his potential is large there must be some unease among his supporters to the reality of the Messiah mentality. His detractors are going to have a field day with this, I wonder if the Nobel committee is comprised of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Riley and Glenn Beck; the ‘I wish you to fail brigade’.

It would appear that the message here is; Hope, A call to action and a more multilateral approach to solving problems. Thankfully in the President’s acceptance speech he gracefully articulated a balance between humility and a combined effort to search for peace.

No pressure then?