Friday, October 09, 2009

Obama and Nobel Peace Prize

President Obama does not deserve the Nobel Peace Prize.

If I were him, I would decline to accept it. I would have acknowledged the award as a great vote of confidence, but confess that it is not appropriately awarded.

Giving this award to President Obama at this time trivializes the award. The President would do more for World Peace right now by restoring the award to its proper stature by declining it.

If I were him I would say, "Humbly, I invite the Nobel Peace Prize Committee to consider me for this honor only after I leave office. Only then can weigh my accomplishments in achieving peace against the challenges I undertook, and in comparison to those great men and women who have been awarded the prize previously."