The day Obama was humbled

I, for one, am delighted to hear that our 44th president received the coveted Nobel Peace Prize last week. It now places him in a unique fraternity of past recipients. This prize may prove very valuable to his legacy.

Upon receiving the news, Mr. Obama stepped to his trusty microphone and teleprompter and said, "I was surprised and deeply humbled."

The honor has caused something I see as a modern-day miracle – a feat as big as the parting of the Red Sea or bringing Lazarus out of the grave: It humbled our president.

Now that he is "humbled," hopefully he can get over himself and get doing the business of the American people and not just those on the Democratic Left. Humility in leadership is a good thing. Now that millions of Americans have voted him in and the Nobel committee has awarded him, all he has left is to focus on unemployment, the economy, real health-care reform and defending the United States of America against all enemies foreign and domestic.

"Let me be clear. I do not view it as recognition of my own accomplishments but rather as an affirmation of American leadership on behalf of aspirations held by people in all nations," he said.

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Sounds surprised to me, don't you think? As Lech Walesa said, "So soon? Too early. He has no contribution so far."

The prize, if awarded for his accomplishments, obviously was for ridding the world of Bill and Hillary Clinton, marginalizing candidate John McCain and preying on the anger of a nation toward George Bush. Those are all worthy accomplishments, don't you think? He used the race issue to neutralize the most powerful political dynasty in modern American politics.

That is not worthy of a prize? It sure is!

So now the Nobel plague adds the name Barack Hussein Obama to the likes of Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, Kofi Annan, Mikhail Gorbachev and my personal favorite, Yasser Arafat – all people who have made the world a better place, right? Alfred must be rolling in his grave.

It is still early in the Obama administration, so it would be unfair to criticize everything he is doing. But the Nobel Peace Prize now adds to the similarities between Mr. Obama and the worst president this country has ever seen: Jimmy Carter.

Jimmy brought us the misery index, double-digit unemployment, solar panels on the White House, skyrocketing inflation, 18 percent interest rates and, in my opinion, the worst four years in the history of the American presidency. He brought shame to America and continues to do so to this day. Hopefully Mr. Obama will learn from Carter's mistakes, instead of repeating them.

The biggest mistake I hope he doesn't follow in Carter's footsteps on is a hatred of Israel. I hope and pray he doesn't become a rabid anti-Semite like Jimmy Carter. If he does, our nation is in for a very, very rough road. If God removes His hand of blessing on our country, it is game over.

Thank you, Nobel committee, for doing what many are loudly criticizing. You could hardly read a commentary or listen to talk radio on Friday without experiencing the outrage generated by Mr. Obama receiving the award.

It clearly exposed the true nature of the prize, but, more importantly, it humbled a man. And maybe, just maybe, with a bit of humility, Mr. Obama will not do as much damage as I first thought. That is, if he has truly been humbled and is not just reading the next line in the teleprompter.

It is hard to tell, you know.