http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/10/09/nobel.peace.prize/index.html

This week something very interesting happened in the news. President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Many people were shocked to hear this, but it was even more shocking when the reason he got the award became known. The President won the Nobel Peace Prize for his future goals in foreign relations. This was right away thought of as a bit of a stab at the Bush administration, because Obama had not really done anything, yet, but he had been given the award for his intensions over the next four years.

I was extremely surprised by this, because it says that either no one did something for peace, or that the council simply had it predetermined that they were going to award the President of the United States. I say this, because the President hasn’t done really done anything yet, nor has he had the time to for that matter, and I find it hard to believe that one of the few things that he has done yet got him enough to win the award. Suppose, that it was however one of those down years in the peace world, can you honestly tell me that no one else in the world did something that could beat Obama’s future plans.

Think about it. The President won the award for saying that he was planning on doing something. Now I am not saying that I don’t have faith in the President, or that he won’t do what he says, but there have been a lot of people that said that they were going to do things, and haven’t. If he can win the Nobel Peace Prize for just saying that he is going to do something, I should of said hey I plan to cure the world of disease, and war in one year. I mean I could have been 1.4 million dollars richer.

Anyway the real focus now turns to President Obama. He will now have an even bigger spotlight (as if it could get any bigger) on him for the next four years. We will have to see if he holds to what he said, and if he truly does change the United States economy, and future around. We will have to see if he shows us why he truly won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, but most importantly, we will have to see if he can show us the change that was promised to America.