The Present Dent

President Obama sparked severe criticism when he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He joined the ranks with the likes of Woodrow Wilson, Frank Kellogg, Mother Teresa, Dr Martin Luther King Jr, George Marshall, and Yasser Arafat.

Many, including President Obama himself, claim that he did not deserve the award. According to Nobelprize.org, President Obama received the prize "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."

I believe that these negative sentiments come from his lack of time in office, along with his (as the press calls it) "rock star appeal". Compare this to Martti Ahtisaarifor, the 2008 Nobel winner and arguably a person that no one in the class has ever heard of, for "his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts".

Three decades!! President Obama won the award when he was 48 years old. He was a teenager when Martti began resolving international conflicts!

I believe that Martti Ahtisaarifor is what the world has come to accept as a Nobel Peace Prize winner, or the likes of Jody Williams and the ICBL (International Campaign to Ban Landmines) for going out and clearing anti-personnel landmines from old battlefields. These people have taken action, set precedents, and made a difference.

Has President Obama really made a difference? Has he made a significant impact on this world?

Recently President Obama and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev has signed a treaty to disarm a third of the U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons. Many claim this to be an Obama victory, suggesting that President Obama was the creator of this treaty.

However, many Americans are very forgetful. It was actually former President Ronald Reagan who originally proposed the treaty to, then, Union of Soviet Socialist Republic President Mikhail Gorbachev.

True, Obama did get a signature, and in standard form Fox overreacted and cried anti-Christ, while every other US news media praised him for curing the blind and walking on water.

But just as Reagan "broke the wall", Obama's been riding many lesser known coattails of his predecessor. Over a year later and he's still following the Bush administration's timeline for Iraq and Afghanistan, yet those were his major selling points while on the "Bob the Builder" campaign trail. DID HE STEAL IT, YES HE DID!!

Just my suggestion; we should concentrate on world peace.

Where's my damned prize money?