Astonishingly, Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize. The prize itself is illegal because it is not included in Nobel’s testament. Obama received the prize based on merely ten days’ work, because his nomination was submitted before February 1 this year.
The Nobel committee praised Obama’s utopia of a nuclear-free world, but Obama made that proclamation only two weeks ago at the UNSC meeting. The committee was required to evaluate nominations at the time of submission, and cannot use later events to boost a nominee’s credentials.
The prize is also invalid because under the current guidelines it is only awarded for actual peacemaking, rather than well-meaning declarations.
Obama also received the prize for his “efforts to strengthen international diplomacy.” This merit is yet to be seen, as so far he has failed in all his diplomatic endeavors: North Korea, Iran, Palestine, and Venezuela.
Obama will be in the good company of other Nobel Peace Price winners: Nelson Mandela, a terrorist who bombed his own people to force them out of Bantustans and heat up the confrontation with whites, and Arafat. Hopefully, Obama will follow in the footsteps of another Nobel Peace Prize winner, Yitzhak Rabin.
