Nobel Standards For President

I can completely understand when conservatives decry the fact that President Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

After all, they are conservatives.

They lost the election.
Their policies have been watered down.
They don’t seem to have a clear agenda.

Their job, then, is to criticize the winner for the next four years. That’s what partisanship is all about – and I’m cool with that.

I have, however, also heard from quite a number of my Democrat friends who have stated how much of a “joke” or “embarrassment” they believe it is that the Nobel Prize was awarded to President Obama.

“What has he done,” they cry.

“You can’t award him the Nobel Peace Prize based on what you hope he will do,” they whine.

There’s a certain level irony – or at least hypocrisy - when people who voted for a freshman senator with virtually no experience to be our president complain that he hasn’t actually achieved enough to be awarded the Nobel Prize.

I would dare say that the responsibilities of the leader of the free world are substantially greater than the responsibilities of a Nobel Peace Prize Winner.

As President, the decisions Obama will make will have far greater impact than the decisions he makes as Nobel laureate.

Detractors to this logic will say that we vote for president based on what we believe that person WILL do, but the Nobel Prize is given to people based on what they HAVE done.

To them I say, “That’s the problem, isn’t it?”