President Obama continues to break records and barriers by winning the Nobel Peace Prize only 9 months into his first term! This is one president that will surely leave his mark on history. Read on:
The last thing Barack Obama needed at this moment in his presidency and our politics is a prize for a promise.
Inspirational words have brought him a long way - including to the night in Grant Park less than a year ago when he asked that we "join in the work of remaking this nation the only way it's been done in America for two-hundred and twenty-one years - block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand."
By now there are surely more callouses on his lips than his hands. He, like every new president, has reckoned with both the power and the danger of words, dangers that are especially great for one who wields them as skillfully as he. A promise beautifully made raises hopes especially high: we will revive the economy while we rein in our spending; we will make health care simpler, safer, cheaper, fairer. We will rid the earth of its most lethal weapons. We will turn green and clean. We will all just get along
Read more here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091009/us_time/08599192939500.
And he won this why? He has done nothing to earn it.
ReplyDeleteThanks Nicole. But apparently the committee awarding the thinks differently and so do millions of others who are benefitting from his presidency thus far.
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