There are those who cannot see; there are those who will not see; there are those who see and understand.
I'd been feeling something would happen to help give energy to a young presidency; a president who genuinely seeks to make a difference.
FAIR WARNING: Below, I intend to wax poetic...
A world tired of itself; wearied and bloodied by centuries of war and starvation. A world that could kill itself or save itself as good men and women decide whether to do something, thereby averting the evil of a seeming universal moral inertia.
Some say he is too young, not enough achievement. But the Nobel Committee said the award was for President Obama's intentions. This is more than a man winning an award. Herein rise the early stages of a world at last beginning to awaken.
Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
May peace one day overlay the earth, and heal the world.
--wewhodream.
A thinking person knows what the old ways have brought to the world. There are those who would only destroy, and when they see one they consider an enemy (I do not think "opponent" is a strong enough word here), come charging out of the gate and win a prestigious world-wide award such as the Nobel Peace Prize...But a thinking person sees one more advance of that old dusty hope...
...there can be heard the bitter screams of those old dying destroyers.
They've not yet pulled me low, no, not low enough to hate, but perhaps enough to see. For our witness to a bright, historic decision to award a young, confident, strong president with the Nobel Peace Prize; let that sight be. Maybe it will ripple, maybe our delight will outweigh the screams of ancient hatred.
This is a good thing.