Prizing the President: Too Noble For Nobel?

"Peace IS the Prize"

"I believe that a man must be a good patriot before he can be, and as the only possible way of being, a good citizen of the world. Experience teaches us that the average man who protests that his international feeling swamps his national feeling, that he does not care for his country because he cares so much for mankind, in actual practice proves himself the foe of mankind; that the man who says that he does not care to be a citizen of any one country, because he is the citizen of the world, is in fact usually and exceedingly undesirable citizen of whatever corner of the world he happens at the moment to be in. In the dim future all moral needs and moral standards may change; but at present, if a man can view his own country and all others countries from the same level with tepid indifference, it is wise to distrust the man who can take the same dispassionate view of his wife and mother [as he does of someone else's wife and mother]. However broad and deep a man’s sympathies, however intense his activities, he need have no fear that they will be cramped by love of his native land.”--Pres. Teddy Roosevelt,"Citizenship in a Republic", The Sorbonne, 1910

Does President Trump deserve a Nobel Peace Prize? Of course–but that’s not the question.

The first president to receive the award created by the peace-loving dynamite-inventor Alfred Nobel was Teddy Roosevelt.  He earned it by mediating between the warring Russians and Japanese. Wilson won for creating the useless League of Nations, the precursor to the useless United Nations. Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin were all nominated at some point, as was Gandhi, who also never won. Truman won the Big War and Reagan won the Cold War but neither were honored. 

Jimmy Carter eventually got one. But Sadat and Begin had to go around him to negotiate peace because Jimmeh wanted a "comprehensive" deal that would give his terrorist pal Arafat a country. The heroic Sadat and Begin wisely ignored him. To his credit, though, Carter never used the FBI and CIA to wiretap, frame and overthrow Ronald Reagan, unlike today's scumbag Democrats.

Al Gore won for complaining about the weather.

Barry from Jakarta knew he hadn't earned a Peace Prize. It was an Affirmative Action gift and an in-kind campaign contribution. If he had character, he would have refused it until he earned it--which he never did. Although he did earn "ISIS JV Player of the Year"-Award.

The Committee needed a pretext to give it to him, so they dusted off an old arms treaty with Russia and re-signed it, so Obama started his presidency the way he ended it: by owing Putin favors.

Don Surber: "Turning the Nobel Prize into a Participation Trophy was foolish.

Obama's sneak attack on Libya was a coward's act designed to show Hillary's toughness. She bragged, "We came, we saw, he died."

President Trump has shown more restraint in his pinky than Obama did in 8 years.

Tybring-Gjedde said in a letter recommending Donald Trump, "Indeed, Trump has broken a 39-year-old streak of American Presidents either starting a war or bringing the United States into an international armed conflict. The last president to avoid doing so was Peace Prize laureate Jimmy Carter."".......

Libya was supposed to her first campaign commercial but Hillary screwed it up by supplying the weapons that killed her own ambassador.

But it was part of Obama's bigger plan to take out anyone who stood in the way of a new Muslim Brotherhood Caliphate from Tunisia to Tehran and Waziristan to Washington--and run by his Ayatollah.

By contrast, President Trump has earned the Prize several times over. 

He stopped chemical attacks in Syria, took out ISIS, al Baghdadi, Solemani and has started no new wars. Despite the black lies, it is President Trump who respects our troops enough to bring them home from Endless Wars. He went to North Korea for peace. He is the only president in decades to stand up to China, using economics instead of bombs. He sponsored the Serbia-Kosovo Pact, the Arab Emirates-Israel Pact, re-invigorated NATO, strengthened ties with India and many others while weakening dictatorships around the world, whether in Iran, Gaza, China, Venezuela or Cuba.

The question is not does our President deserve a Peace Prize, but this: Does the Nobel Prize deserve President Trump? He confers moral authority by his historic leadership. He would be doing them a favor by accepting their honor. I hope the Nobel Committee will one day be worthy of this great man.

And the Best is Yet to Come.