| Congratulations to Barack Obama on being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Despite the smug denial of many, President Obama is uniquely qualified to receive this award this year.
Many Americans remain in denial, even now, of the shameful record of the previous eight years. It was a time when Americans, acting as willing dupes of reckless and immoral leaders, scapegoated entire populations for the crimes of a cabal of madmen. It was a time when Americans rationalized torture, aggression, murder, and revenge.
Americans woke up, last year, from the sinister trance that gripped them. They turned away from the grim dichotomy of domination or destruction. They listened to a voice that offered hope, and they chose a new path.
This is the real change in the world. America is once again motivated by its higher self. This prize is not for the eloquence of one man who enabled us to wake up, or the daily efforts of that man working to live up to the change he has enabled.
This Nobel Peace Prize is really for the American people. And no one is more fit to represent us in accepting this prize than the President of the United States, Barack Obama. |
