Nobel dilemma

   I would like to make it clear that I am not one of those crazy anti-Obama Republicans. (No offense to crazy anti-Obama Republicans, but you guys need to
get over it. You're stuck with him so you might as well make lemonade.)
   Now that we've got that out of the way, what did POTUS do during those first
12 days in office that made the Norwegian Committee so sure he deserved a Nobel Peace Prize? Maybe he broke up a nasty brawl between Malia and Sasha, keeping them from ripping each other's hair out over who had to clean up after that adorable new puppy of theirs. Perhaps he held his tongue while his wife Michelle went on some hormonal tirade, preventing a global meltdown of female rage.
Or he could have stumbled into the middle of some random D.C. street fight and
 put an end to that.
   Ironically, the real reason is even more ridiculous. Barack Obama was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize as a call to action, sort of a way to say "Hey, we know you're gonna do something cool eventually so here you go."
   If that's the case, some friends and I have been thinking about starting a new band, if we could just get that Grammy now, it would help us really solidify what we want to do. Just consider it a sort of down payment. We'll even name our first album Obama Did It So Why Can't We?
   Snark aside, there are a ton of other people that deserve that award way more than Obama did. The list of possible nominees includes the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe and his efforts to promote Democracy, a Chinese activist and his work for human rights, the chairperson of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Council and a Colombian senator.
   These people have been through unjust arrests, kidnappings and torture and a multitude of other humiliations and hardships while taking a stand against
corruption, greed and abuse.
   So what can one person do in 12 days to warrant that award more than people who have been working their entire lives toward the greater good? Nothing. Not to say that Obama hasn't been doing a lot of great things to help, but we have to remember he's overseeing a war—one that he didn't start, but still a war.
    Maybe when this whole fiasco is over, the troops are home safe and there are no more
 kids fresh out of high school getting blown to bits overseas, Obama will get that prize on
 the right terms—actually accomplishing something of a greater magnitude rather than just talking about it.