O BAMA! SAY IT AIN'T SO!

i wanted to bring this up today before we got into the model un, just to gauge opinion, but we ran into a time issue right off the hop.

i wanted to begin by asking how many of you were excited by barack obama's candidacy and his eventual rise to the presidency? i know i was.

what did it mean to you or what did you see it meaning to the world?

i then wanted to know how you feel about him now?

finally, do you feel obama should be honoured with the nobel peace prize, in lieu that he recently announced he will be sending 30,000 more troops to afghanistan? i don't. and i don't know that the nobel peace prize should have been bestowed upon him had he not decided to send 30,000 more troops. and i worry when a nobel peace prize acceptance speech espouses the belief that "the instruments of war do have a role in preserving the peace," especially when the esteemed prize recipient then refuses to answer to that statement and forgoes the traditional post prize press conference. as well, he cancelled other events held every year, including a dinner with the norwegian nobel committee, a television interview, appearances at a children’s event promoting peace, as well as a visit to an exhibition in his honor at the nobel peace center.

sound like another american president we know?

what do you think? all talk? selling lipstick to a pig? i would say, he was voted the winner, so i can't hold that he won the prize against him. nonetheless, his words and actions leave me uneasy. but it's still early in the game. the honour was bestowed on him too early and may actually serve to undermine any position he takes before actually implementing a peace initiative which is meaningful. that said, he set himself up during his campaign as the new voice of change, of peace and hope. well, here's hoping.

i looked into whom he beat out, but curiously, the nobel committee do not release the official nominee list for 50 years!