Barack Obama Wins the Nobel Peace Prize

Last week President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. What for is the question a lot of people have been asking for the past couple days including myself.

When I heard the news that President Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize, I was kind of shocked. Myself being a Democrat, voted for Obama in the 2008 election, but my support for him quickly dropped, especially after the closing of Guantamino Bay in January. President Obama apparently won the Peace Prize for his so called “foreign relations” I personally think that this was a pretty dumb excuse considering the fact he is in charge of a country that is fighting two wars and has weapons of mass destruction.

To me, he got the prize for two reasons. Reason one, race. Now I am definitely not racist and I’m not trying to sound racist here, but the reason he won the prize, and possibly even his presidency, was because of his race. I mean I can almost guarantee that half of the percent of people who voted for him, was because he is African-American. I mean you had people who probably never watched any debates of his, or didn’t even know what he stood for voting for him. Why? Because of his race. Yes other African-American people have won the Nobel Peace prize, but much like here in America, every one made a huge deal about Obama being the first African-American president in other countries, and they did all around the world. I’m pretty sure that if Obama wasn’t African-American, people would have realized that he wasn’t this hero he was built up to be. If an Arab-American was president of say Turkey, people there would say wow, he’s different, and suddenly he would be this huge hero. Basically, what I’m saying here, is that President Obama won the prize because he is the first African American president of the U.S, and people symphonized in a sense, for him, because he was built up to be this big huge hero, when the reality of it is, he’s really not. The second reason, some people think he won the prize, was because it was sort of a slap in the face, so to speak, to President Bush, because he tried to reach out to other countries, and he fell flat on his face.

I personally think race was the deciding factor of why President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Football
Football is my all time favorite sport. I play it and watch it every Saturday, and Sunday and Monday and I play it for my school. Football is an awesome sport. My favorite about watching football would definitely be to be seeing the big plays, weather its Terrence Newman catching a one handed interception, DeMarcus Ware laying out a running back coming through the hole, Marion Barber making the strong safety look weak by running them over, or Tony Romo completing the game winning catch to Roy Williams in the end zone.

I don’t also love to watch football, but I also love to play it. My coach says it isn’t for everybody, but I love it. I play for Stevenson High School’s freshman team, and we aren’t doing so well. We are winless and we don’t seem to be doing any better. I play split end, and if you don’t know what that is, it’s where you line up split to the left or the right, and go out on a pass or block the corner. The reason I love playing football so much is the way it makes you feel when you make a big play like juking out the corner, making a block that lays someone on there back, or hitting the ball carrier so hard he never wants to play football again. I don’t know what it is about all those things but they just make you feel amazing inside. Even though all of those things are great, there are some not so great things about football, like missing a blocking assignment, or dropping a pass, and the worst thing about football, is the conditioning. We run so much its insane. I’m talking a couple miles per practice, that’s how bad it can get. So like my coach said, playing football isn’t for everybody, but I sure do love it.