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.