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Chuck Collins is the operations manager for 1590 WAKR and Rubber City Radio Group, and an editor for AkronNewsNow.com.




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posted 10/9/2009 6:45:58 AM by
Chuck Collins, AkronNewsNow.com
  An Eye on the Prize
Let me say at the start that I am as surprised as anyone by today's headlines. President Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize. It is probably the most famous of the awards. It is also, so it seems, the most subjective.

Not puzzled by this choice? Welcome to the 21st Century. This is not an award for the great accomplishments and deeds of our current president; it is the anti-Nobel Prize for our last president. If they had a Nobel War Prize, George W. Bush would have won it unanimously on the first ballot.

I don't agree with either notion. As one of the handful of Americans who realizes the excellence in both men, and the vastly different but equally difficult challenges in both their times, I think the Nobel committee is echoing the sentiment of much of the world community.  It is a backlash to the influence and guardianship the United States has shown over the last two decades. It is resentment aimed at the only cohesive and free culture in the clouds. We are at the top of the food chain, it is true, and with that comes responsibility and consequences.   

America has never had easy choices and we certainly have made plenty of wrong turns. But when history presents a challenge, somebody has to do something and more often than not that somebody is us. Barack Obama may very well deserve the Peace Prize one day.  I hope he continues on the path he has taken and earns it. But to win it now is a symbol rather than a true recognition of his accomplishments.

There is a word for that. I won't use it here because it even offends me. But it's hard to see this announcement any other way.       



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posted at 10/9/2009 8:40:07 AM (344)
 itsjustme said:
Agreed. Essentially an award to America for getting rid of Bush.

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