Postcards from my life

I don't know, to me it seems a bit strange. Awarding a man that is just at the start of his presidency, a man that has made many promises but still needs to show that he will follow up on them. To me the Nobel Peace Prize is an honourable award that should be given to people that have achieved greatness. Such as Muhammad Yunnus. Or Jimmy Carter. People that have worked effortlessly for peace. I am not discrediting Obama in any way. I like Obama. And I believe in him. I really do. I think he might be one of those people that actually can change the world. But he hasn't done it yet. He has a long, long way to go. I would have loved to see him win the prize, in a few years time. When he has proved himself to the world. As one person said: "A man that is currently running two wars got the peace prize." I agree, it's strange. The committee says that it is to encourage his politics. That his ideas and beliefs go together with what the peace prize is about. That is very true. But shouldn't your actions go together with the idea of the peace prize? Your actions, and preferably the results of these actions.

I must say I don't agree with this. I'm usually a huge Obama-fan. And I still am. It just seems a bit preemptive to give him such a nobel prize without even being close to the same standard as Dag Hammarskjöld, Martin Luther King JR and Mother Teresa. I'm sorry, but he's just not there yet. I hope one day he will be, cause that means that a lot of things in this world will hava changed.