Lech Walesa, is a Nobel Peace Prize winner who judged another person who won this award for a reason that was no better than his own. President Obama, was accused of winning this reward to fast and that he has not done anything yet. To cite Mr. Walesa's own words he claimed, "So fast? Too fast-he hasn't had the time to do anything yet." (Times) I say it's a shame!
Mr. Walesa was a man fighting for union rights when he won this reward. Obama has won the award for fighting for world peace. They both didn't do much before they were both rewarded.
Sure Walesa was detained many times and fought peacefully to win union rights. He even traveled to other countries as a business man. Sharing his ideas, keeping secrets, and kept his peace while he was under surveillance. He was the leader of many union strikes, but to point out he did not make it to his goal when he was rewarded the Nobel Peace prize.
President Obama, is fighting for world peace. He is fighting for world help. He is trying to make the world work in a better and more cleaner environment to help build a better economy not just for America, but for the world. He has traveled to many countries just like Mr. Walesa; clearly, also like Mr. Walesa, President Obama has yet to achieve his goal and has won the Nobel Peace Prize.
They both were rewarded when they both did not achieve their goals, but that is not the reason they were rewarded such an award. They were rewarded because of what they were doing and their reason for it. Not because they achieved it!
Mother Theresa was rewarded this award for her actions in making a better world, but she did not succeed. Sure she helped the world and she never gave up even in failure, but it was her trying that made the reward so special and not her success. Some people would argue that she succeeded and she did because she never gave up, but her goal was to end poverty; however, proverty still exist. It was her trying and actions; clearly not her success and failures.
I think people are offended because a very early popular man has won The Nobel Peace Prize in an unpopular situation. Another thing is that he has not been known to the world for a very long time and has already won the reward, but remember Mr. Walesa was only 40 years old when he won and that is not much older than President Obama.
Richard T. Seymour, from Baltimore, wrote an article; "Obama gives aid and comfort to the enemy." He explain in this article that Obama is giving comfort to our nation enemies, but greatly Mr. Seymour is mistaken. Mr. Seymour, feels that the Nobel Peace prize is going to make it worse. In his Article he goes off point to talk about American soldiers; however, I do not understand what his article is to mean.
Accepting the award is going to make things better because now the world has seen that he is trying and his trying has been rewarded. This will help others believe in him.
Mr. Seymour, also commented about soldiers having to retreat from civilians while under attack by the Taliban forces and he claims it is not right for them to do that, but I disagree because to me this is common sense.
It's for safety reasons. If soldiers are in contact with civilians during an attack then Taliban forces may target the civilians to help target American soldiers. Another reason for retreating is for safety reasons for the civilians. If the Taliban see civilians in contact with American soldiers they may kidnap them to torture them for information that may have been shared between the two.
Mr. Seymour, does not seem to try to understand why some rules are put in place. These rules help protect American soldiers and civilians. Mr. Seymour, has proven he would not make a very good military leader nor a President.
President Obama, believes in change and he acts to bring that change to us. Everyone else before him has talked about change, but no one has done the work to prove that he or she truly believes in this change. This is why I believe in him, but of course there were others who have done wonderful jobs in making wonderful changes, but he is the one doing it right now.
Everyone else is just finding something to complain about and they are saying that they have not see any changes. Well it is true, but change takes time and time takes couarge. President Obama is making changes that will save the economy and the world, but he is making changes that will fix and not break so easily. This is what happen with Bill Clinton economy plan. There was no back up plan! Obama is creating this along with saving our Health Care plan. This is why Health Care Reform is important. A cheaper plan that will help us save money to rebuild the economy is the very goal we want to achieve.
People say that President Obama cannot blame Ex President Bush for his mistake anymore, but they are greatly mistaken. I believe that Ex President Bush was a good President, but his mistakes have planted a seed thats has become a very big plant of mistakes and big mistake sometimes take years to heal themselves.
This is about President Obama being able to change and fix the Economy and he is able to do so, but we must believe in him along the way. Change takes time and big mistake take years to heal. Together we can make these things happen, but we must believe in someone who believes in us and President Obama has explined many times that he believes "in America and it's People."
