I am POSITIVELY stunned by the selection of President Barack
Obama as the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner. I am also ready for the
detractors because of the reactions to Martin Luther King’s selection in
1964. Alabama was almost as segregated in 1964 and it was in 1963
and the Selma Crisis was yet to come. Further, I was told by elders
what W. E. B. Du Bois, et al, thought when Woodrow Wilson won the Prize
in 1919 for his efforts with the League of Nations, an organization that
wasn’t quite a resounding success. The Prize is seldom without
controversy.
In my judgment, the Nobel Prize Committee rewards both promise and
production, symbol and substance. We need only think of its
ventures into South Africa, Northern Ireland and the Middle East where
peace seems always to be "a work in progress."
God bless its 2009 decision.
Best regards,
Dave
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If, in nine short months, President Obama can be blamed for most of our country’s ills, he must possess magical powers. How otherwise could he be responsible for the unclear conduct and direction of two ill-conceived wars; be culpable for the downturn and slow recovery of the economy; be perceived as a serious threat to socialize health care; and somehow broadcast subliminal propaganda to school children under the guise of fatherly advice? Mind you, that broadcast contained the following counsel:
“…show up to those schools; pay attention to those teachers; listen to your parents, grandparents and other adults; and put in the hard work it takes to succeed.”
If the President’s influence looms so large in the imagination of his critics that he has assumed ownership of problems HE INHERITED LESS THAN A YEAR AGO and has done much ill with them, what does the future hold? Could such “magical powers” possibly be used for good purpose and, given REASONABLE time, maybe even stabilize and redirect our economy and country?
It is conceivable that, in this leader, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee saw, not magic, but enormous promise and was guided less by RETROSPECT and more by PROSPECT. In President Obama’s rare intelligence, oratory, engagement, willingness to look anew at old problems and international appeal, the Committee saw hope. Unfortunately, these once highly-respected qualities in leaders, are now abhorred by many of the President’s detractors.
David Evans
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