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Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize premature

October 22, 2009

Staff

Many were shocked when the Nobel Peace Prize committee announced President Barack Obama as the winner.
Many think President Obama did not deserve this prestigious award.
While Obama may show potential in promoting peace and accomplishing harmony in the future, the committee acted prematurely.
Nomination deadlines were in February. That means Obama had only been in office for one month by the time he was nominated.
Due to our government’s system of checks and balances, which requires lots of time in order for changes to be made, it is virtually impossible for any president to accomplish anything in one month that would deserve the Nobel Peace Prize.
It is awfully presumptuous to award someone for actions he claims to plan to take in the future. Perhaps the committee would have done better to wait to award Obama until after he had done something particularly worthy of this award.
The award is given annually. Holding out on the Obama nomination until 2010, giving him a little more time to prove himself, would have been a wise decision.
America has high expectations for Obama. Many expect him to build bridges of peace between nations, something Obama has promised to do, yet which has not been fulfilled.
This is not to say that Obama will never bring peace among nations. He very well may. However, no bridges have been built yet and certainly none were built in February when he was nominated.
Nobel Peace Prizes should not be handed out to anyone who asks for one. The Prize may even lose its worth if it is given prematurely too many times. Men should not be awarded for work yet to accomplished.

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