Because I'm too tired to write out my thoughts. I posted this on another forum. It's about Obama being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today:
I've said before, I've been very objective when it comes to Obama for someone who didn't vote for him. But there's no legitimate argument that can be made that he actually DESERVED this. True, he didn't ASK to be nominated or ask to win and he did say the money will go to charity. I just find it..strange. He's barely been in office 10 months! And he's not yet really done ANYTHING for PEACE. This award USED to mean something. You look at men like Nelson Mandela, Anwar Sadat, Yitzhak Rabin, F W DeKlerk. And then you see winners like Yasir Arafat, Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, and now Barack Obama. What did ANY of those men (the only exception is Carter because of Camp David I), do ANYTHING for peace? Arafat FOOLED the entire WORLD into believing he was fighting for peace when in fact he was nothing but a total coward even though he stood there in Oslo in December 1993 next to Rabin and Peres.
It's really got little to do with Obama and more to do with the credibility of this award. Which over the past few years, has done a very good job of proving that it has none. And it only discredits the winners who actually DID deserve this. And meanwhile, many many true peacemakers, get tossed to the side for this honor. As far as I'm concerned, it's disgraceful.
First I was very angry and thought of Bill, who I think everyone on both sides of the aisle, feels is one of the people who truely deserves this recognition, ESPECIALLY when he was President. There has not been as huge of a peacemaker as him since then. But then I just started thinking about my favorite Nobel Peace Prize winner and what he would be thinking:

On HCF, some people are saying Bill's probably "pissed". I don't think so. After all, Obama is his wife's boss and all tensions have eased. However, like the rest of us, he is probably just perplexed because it's just so weird and out of left field. And I'm sure, like me, he's thinking of Yitzhak and missing him, not only because it's so close to the anniversary of his death, but because he received this honor, back when it really was an honor. Not like the joke it's become, even before Obama got it. This just seals it though, and like I said, I'm not making a judgement on Obama, simply the Nobel Prize Committee.
Anyway, I'm going to bed. It's late and I'm sore. I did yardwork all day at our property in Glassboro (the house I grew up in that we still own and rent out). Dad's been working there and since he and mom are basically funding me, I figured I'd pay my dues. It's only the beginning..lol. Tim will be here tomorrow and I'll get a repreive from everything in Atlantic City. I can't wait.
Game 3 tomorrow in Denver. Forecast calling for snow and 30 degrees game time temp. Pedro is on the mound. Bring it! LET'S GO PHILS!!