Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize for accomplishing…nothing

October 9, 2:57 PMNY Conservative ExaminerTodd Keister

Obama the peacemaker? Photo/AP

Other presidents have won the award, such as Theodore Roosevelt for brokering the Portsmouth Treaty that ended the bloody Russo-Japanese War in 1905. President Woodrow Wilson won the honor in 1919 for creating the League of Nations, the forerunner of the United Nations. While the league was an even bigger failure than the UN, at least President Wilson succeeded in his goal of creating the league to promote world peace. Failed president Jimmy Carter was awarded the prize in 2002, but he had at least accomplished brokering peace between Israel and Egypt with the Camp David Accords in 1978, and worked to promote peace and human rights for two decades after leaving office.

The great World War II General George C. Marshall was awarded the prize for his Marshall Plan, in which the United States single-handedly rebuilt the economies and infrastructure of European nations devastated by the war – former allies and enemies alike. The Dalai Lama of Tibet was awarded the prize in 1989 after decades of endeavoring to liberate his country from Chinese occupation, and for actively promoting non-violence and peace around the world. Mother Theresa of Calcutta claimed the prize in 1979 for a lifetime of work running missions for the poor and homeless. US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger won the prize in 1973 for his work in creating the Paris Agreement to end the Vietnam War.

One thing all these Nobel Laureates have in common is that they all achieved something; some may have ultimately failed, but they all spent years making significant efforts and personal sacrifices in the promotion of world peace.

The stunning announcement of Obama’s award came this morning, and while the Peace Prize was once a prestigious award, it means very little these days after it was awarded to terrorist Yassir Arafat in 1994, and to Global Warming charlatan Al Gore in 2007.

Still the granting of an international award to a man who never achieved a single thing in his lifetime is incredible. The chairman of the Nobel Committee, Thorbjoern Jagland, claimed that Obama was deserving of the prize for what he had already achieved as president, including promoting nuclear disarmament and creating "a new climate in international politics.”

President Obama has done nothing to reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the world. In fact, his pathetic weakness in the face of North Korea and Iran’s efforts to acquire and deliver nukes has made nuclear proliferation more likely. He has not proposed, nor held talks with the Russians regarding arms reduction, let alone concluded any concrete agreements. As for the “new climate in international politics,” it is no doubt an endorsement of Obama’s spring world apology tour, in which the president toured the globe, hat in hand, and apologized to Europeans, Muslims, Africans, Arabs, and anybody who would listen for the how arrogant and despicable America is – or rather was before his coronation.

Well, the political climate has not changed one bit; the Europeans are still disdainful of America. They are poltroons who are unable and unwilling to confront the threats from Iran and Muslim terrorists- leaving it to America as they have done for more than half a century. Despite Obama’s groveling and self-promotion, they still are providing no serious assistance to US efforts against terror in Iraq and Afghanistan. Even the International Olympic Committee delivered a public slap in the face to the Pope of Hope; when they voted Chicago out of consideration for the 2016 Summer Games after he personally appeared to plead for the event.

It is clear that the Nobel Committee has a starkly left-leaning political agenda and is more interested in promoting causes like global warming and the crowning of the American messiah than they are about promoting genuine peace. So the community organizer whose community remains a run-down ghetto – who wrote his autobiography at the age of thirty-four – who sat in the Illinois legislature and voted “present” – who never crafted any significant legislation or completed a full term as a US senator – who was then plucked from obscurity and elected President of the United States, today has one more undeserved and hollow “achievement” to add to his resume.