Posted by CeliaScheer on 10/09/09 4:11 PM Last updated 10/09/09 4:17 PM [Newer: Corporate 'rights' to free speech?] [Older: Open letter to MSM]

So, Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize.

I know what Nobel intended the prize to be, but what the "peace" prize currently amounts to nothing more than a progressive beauty contest, where what you believe is more important than what you do.

Maybe, given time, he would do something worthy of getting the Peace Prize. Maybe.

They handed it out too soon. They clearly gave this award for what they want Obama to achieve - most of which would be bad for America. They seem to have a soft-spot for statists, human caused global warming advocates and anything opposed to the ideas of freedom and liberty, so Obama fits the bill to a tee -- a three-fer, if you will.

It has nothing to do with peace, just as the Gore award had nothing to do with peace and everything to do with influencing American domestic policy.

Of course, Nationalist in me loves the idea of an American winning; the Libertarian in me loathes the idea of a Statist winning and the Narcissist in me is kinda miffed that I didn't get more consideration for the award. After all, I like peace, too, plus I did as much to advance the cause the peace last year as Obama... well, at least Liberty (as the regional coordinator for Campaign for Liberty), and true liberty would give us the kind of peace that our blow-back filled foreign policies have definitely not achieved.