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HOW DID OBAMA WIN THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE?
The Nobel Prize was awarded to President Obama not for what he has accomplished, but for what the world hopes he accomplishes... at America's expense. 
--10/10/09

Like most sensible people, I was dumbfounded to hear that President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize, especially considering that balloting was completed just 12 days after his inauguration. What could he have possibly accomplished in that time to deserve this award? Even taking his entire career into account, what could he have possibly accomplished in his life to deserve this award?

Even taking his presidency up until now into account, what has Obama accomplished to promote peace? He is the leader of a country fighting two wars. Was the prize an attempt to keep him from committing more troops to Afghanistan? Was it an attempt to withdraw from Iraq sooner than scheduled? Both options would be bad for America.

Meanwhile, Iran and North Korea are building nuclear facilities and firing test missiles in defiance of the international community. The supposed peaceful message of “non-nuclear proliferation” that Obama is spreading has clearly done nothing to stop those countries’ nuclear ambitions.

Then I got to thinking about the award itself. The Nobel Prize is awarded by the Norwegian Parliament. Past American presidential recipients were Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter and Al Gore, all progressives who tended to put international issues ahead of American ones. Is this award, given to Obama so early in his presidency, an effort to steer his agenda?

Who could gain by such a thing? Surely Europe could. The European Union’s socialist economic structure is crumbling, and what better way to prop it back up than to bring America down? If Europe’s taxes are high while America’s are low, the most ambitious Europeans will continue coming here as they have done for over two centuries, and Europe will continue fading into oblivion.

And if Obama continues showing weakness in foreign policy, he will succeed in diminishing the world's most powerful military. This would be terrible for America, but it would delight many international delegations.

So maybe President Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize in the hope that he will make us more like Europe. That may be good for Europeans in the short term but disastrous for the world in the long term. It would be especially disastrous for us Americans whom he has sworn an oath to protect and defend.