Obama Awarded Nobel Peace Prize.....Is It April Fools Day???

Friday, October 9, 2009

Seriously; a Nobel Peace Prize???  Are we all being Punked???

Ya, ya, ya.....I know its a dangerous road to travel to Blog about politics, but how can I not?  Can someone please tell me what Barack Hussain Obama did to warrant getting a Nobel Peace Prize?  Anyone??

This might be a good time to share a little trivia with you about this Joke-Of-A-Prize......

* Did you know that the deadline for nominations for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize was February 1, 2009?  That means Obama had only been President for 12 days when the nominations were closed.

* Did you know that Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler also were nominated for this obvious Joke-Of-A-Prize?

* That Bill Clinton is the only Democrat President in the past 50 years that has not gotten this prize?

* And this is my favorite: Al Gore received the prize in 2007 for doing a "slide show on global warming", beating out a lady by the name of Irena Sendler?  If you haven't heard about Irena, let me tell you little about this lovely lady:

During WWII, Irena received permission to work in the Warsaw Ghetto as a plumbing/sewer specialist.  She had an ulterior motive to working as a sewer specialist, though.  She knew what the Nazi's plans were for the Jews.  Irena smuggled infants out in the bottom of the tool box she carried in the back of her truck.  She also had a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto.  The soldiers, of course, wanted nothing to do with the dog and the barking covered the kids/infants noises.  In all,  she managed to smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants.  She was finally caught and the Nazi's broke both her legs and arms and beat her severely.  Irena kept a record of all the names of the kids she smuggled out which she kept in a glass jar, buried under a tree in her back yard.  After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived and reunite the family.  Most, of course, had been gassed.  Those kids she helped were placed in foster family homes or adopted.  In 2007, she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.....she LOST.  She was beat by Al Gore for his slide show on global warming.  Irena died on May 13, 2008, never having received the recognition she deserved.

Do you still wonder why I call this a Joke-Of-A-Prize?

I find it amusing that Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on the same day that he's becoming the first POTUS to bomb the Moon........And I believe this is the first time they have awarded the Peace Prize to someone because they were breathing..........