While everyone has either been putting the proverbial spank or glad handing Obama for receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, I thought it would be of better use to stand back and look at some odd points about the prize itself.

Nobel Prize Winners Circle:

Theodore Roosevelt, Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa & Al “Earth in a Lurch” Gore

Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mother Teresa, Elie Wiesel, Mikhail Gorbachev, Nelson Mandela, Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin, Jimmy Carter, Toni Morrison, William Faulkner, T.S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, Samuel Beckett, Pierre & Marie Curie, Max Planck and Albert Einstein all won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Nobel Prize Loser’s Bracket:

Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Edison, Mark Twain & Leo Tolstoy

Dmitri Mendeleev, Leo Tolstoy, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Marcel Proust, Mark Twain, Gertrude Stein, Henrik Ibsen, Joan Robinson, Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, Jules-Henri Poincaré, Raymond Damadian and Mahatma Gandhi.

Winners of ill repute:

Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, who won in 1976 for his research in human slow-virus infections, spent 19 months in jail after pleading guilty in 1997 to charges of child molestation.

Johannes Fibiger won in 1926 after discovering parasitic worms cause cancer — a breakthrough that turned out to not be true.

Noted Terrorist, Yasser Arafat shared the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize with Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin. This decision caused Nobel Committee member Kare Kristiansen to resign. “What consequences will result,” he asked at the time, “when a terrorist with such a background is awarded the world’s most prestigious prize?”

William Shockley won for Physics in 1956 for his role in the invention of the semiconductor, but his support of the eugenics movement alienated the scientific community. Shockley also donated sperm to the Repository for Germinal Choice, a sperm bank developed to spread humanity’s best genes.

As part of his divorce settlement, Einstein’s Nobel Prize money went to his ex-wife, Mileva Maric.

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Dynamite: Invented by Alfred Nobel in 1866. Swiss Miss…no idea who created it but damned good stuff!

I’ll say that I’ve always been a bit suspect that the prize was created by the person who invented dynamite. I’ve even been more suspect that those in charge of awarding the the prize itself are also the best known for their skills at the following:

• Waving the white flag during war
• Making hot chocolate that is almost as addictive as crack
• Making banking easy for criminals, dictators, corrupt government officials, around the globe, to hide ill-gotten loot via the infamous Swiss banking system.

Maybe I’m still stinging from Gore’s laughable win but in all seriousness, pretty much after Arafat won the prize, it’s been all downhill and has shown itself to be an almost completely political award.

In the end one can ask, does President Obama deserve the award?  In an ideal world, probably not, but it all really boils down to who you ask. The Left leaning crowd no doubt generally thinks he deserves it and the opposite is true when it comes to the Right. All I can really say is that I’m glad they didn’t give it posthumously to the nearly knighted and often drunk Ted Kennedy or to another global scumbag comparable to Yasser Arafat. The Swiss could and have done far worse in the past than choosing someone such as President Obama. I have to say to readers who are peeped off at the fact that he won, they should make note of what is perhaps the silver lining. In the tough times such as these where the average American is feeling the economic burn, it has to be a lot better for the country’s overall psyche to have our President honored versus being backhanded globally (which, unfortunately, is generally the norm).

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