He ain't George W. Bush.

Why Barack Obama Richly Deserves Nobel Peace Prize

By John Lillpop Friday, October 9, 2009

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Unlike most of my conservative colleagues, I am neither dismayed nor disgusted that President Barack Obama has been honored with the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize.

In my view, Obama won this award for very solid and compelling reasons including:

* He ain’t George W. Bush.
* Almost on his own, Obama ended the war on terror.
* The fact that he did so by expunging the term from the Pentagon vocabulary is irrelevant. It is the thought that counts
* Racists in the IOC denied the president the 2016 Olympics for Chicago. This sort of makes up for that bigotry.
* With his world vision and spiritual insights, Obama has seen beyond and through the “America Firstâ€