When President Obama won the Nobel Peace prize, I was just as confused as everybody else. But, it didn’t take long for my confusion to turn to anger over the remarks made throughout the United States. So many people felt he didn’t deserve the honor.
I struggled to listen to certain people, most of whom I know to be Republicans, vent fury and fire. Some felt the choice of Obama was strictly politics. I don’t agree with that at all. Many want the “war President”, Mr. Bush, back and any President who hesitates to go to war is not President material.
Again, I strongly disagree. One way to peace is by breaking down barriers. This is what President Obama has been doing. The very fact that he is not a white man is blasting to hell the white male ego dominance stance. Finally, we voted in someone who looks like the other part of the US population. Women are still blocked from the office of the President. I think its because men feel a woman will not go to war.
My Republican friends were furious that someone who had not performed any act of peace could win the Nobel Peace prize. They refuse to see what Obama has been doing by negotiating with other leaders and coming to agreements that result in the laying down of weapons. Even Cuba and Russia are listening and not balking at the USA.
President Bush scared the hell out of me. His mission was to invade any country that was not like ours, change their culture to be like us and in the name of protecting our country, put up barriers against old allies. The man loved nothing more than to bully world leaders. He lied to us about the reasons we went to Iran. He had no communication skills. Anyone who is good at detecting bull shit had trouble tolerating him.
My fear now is that those who live and breathe hatred and war will attempt to kill President Obama. He stands out as the agent for change. We need to be country that is respected by other countries rather than hated. Obama can do this. He thinks before sending anyone to fight. Life is something he obviously values, whereas I never had the sense that President Bush valued anything but his own skin.
It may be the Nobel Peace prize was given at an odd time. Perhaps there was nobody else with any vision and goals for world peace. It hurts to know that those who believe he didn’t deserve it will not support his efforts towards peace. For them, it is more important to rant and rave about everything he is doing wrong. These people, in my opinion, don’t wish for peace. They don’t know how to work towards it. They don’t want it.
I can’t understand why.
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