If You Just Don't Get It, Here Are Some Clues

Ok, I'll admit I was a bit slow on the uptake. My first thought was 'huh?' when I heard that President Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize.  Distracted by other things in the everyday of mum, I didn't throughly read the news reports and commentary right off the bat.  What finally made me stop and learn more was the whacked out commentary from the ridiculous right.

Now don't get me wrong, I have many friends who identify themselves as conservative.  I like them and I respect and sometimes agree with their opinions.  The difference is - they are thinkers.  They're not interested in parroting one-liners they once heard on Fox.  While they may chuckle at an anti-Obama joke and intelligently disagree on policy, they don't resort to spewing the ridiculous trash relished by so many of their lower IQ brethren.  The thinkers and intellectual conservatives are not a part of this post.  The trash-talking, projectile brain vomiting ones are.

There.  Now that we have that out of the way ...

While I was still in my initial moments of bewilderment regarding the Nobel and perusing the latest news, I saw a post on Facebook from someone I had known since childhood.  They had never been the brightest crayon in the box, but this Facebook post, as well as some previous ones, confirmed that their intelligence hadn't increased over the years.  It took a great deal of self control not to respond, so I merely "un-friended" them.  To tell the truth, we were never that close in our younger days and its more than obvious she is no one I'd be interested in being chummy with now.  On her wall she was promoting "the no-bull peace prize".  It was a group that sold medals because "these days it doesn't really matter what you have done ..."

Wow.  Talk about incredulous.  Talk about a deep divide.  Talk about a bunch of pea brains blinded by hatred politics. { I think they used to call it petty politics, but its way past that now.}  I could go on and on about how any American should be proud when a fellow American wins the Nobel PEACE {that's right folks, spell it carefully, P-E-A-C-E} prize but I won't.  I don't think they're the type of people to get the obvious.  The politics of hate doesn't exactly encourage intellectual discourse.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out why our President won.  He was elected our leader when America {or most of us anyway} decided to rise up out of the dark and one of the most shameful periods in modern history.  We decided we didn't want to be lied into a war ever again; we didn't want to be responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocents and call out our sons and daughters to die for us based on a manufactured, manipulative agenda.  We wanted a leader who demonstrated to the world that we were truly what we professed to be -  a people of benevolence and peace - not of lies, war, torture and death.

When Barrack Obama was elected the President of the United States I saw videos from all over the world, people cheering with tears running down their faces, clapping, hugging, jumping up and down.  Frame after frame demonstrated nothing but pure joy.  When in history has the world ever done that for one of our presidential elections?

"The award marks America's return to the heart of the people of the world."

I'm sure Sarah Palinites in all their mindless wonder would like to explain that video footage away by claiming they were all a part of the worldwide-liberal-nazi-terrorist-socialist-anti-American cabal.  But they weren't.  They were people who cared about the United States; who want us to return to noble and moral leadership.

French President Nicholas Sarkozy has been very critical of President Obama in the past.  He has called him, "immature," an "empty suit," and "weak" among other things.  However, when it came to the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize, no one explained it better than Sarkozy.  He said,  "The award marks America's return to the heart of the people of the world."

Thank you, Mr. President, for helping to lead us there.  It's good to be back.

Comments

[Jackie Ambrow, Columbia, MO]

Well said, if a bit blunt at times. May we Americans all "return to the heart of the people of the world." Once upon a time the world saw America as the shining light on the hill and the friend of liberty and justice. May we be so once again, first for ourselves, and then for the world at large.