Another jewel in his crown ~ By Barbara Simpson

From WorldNetDaily

By Barbara Simpson Posted: October 12, 2009 ~ 1:00 am Eastern © 2009 Barack Obama is like the opera singer vocalizing before a performance: Take a breath and sing … 'me, me, me, me, me!' Reports are that when Robert Gibbs woke him early Friday with the news that the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize had his name on it, Obama was surprised. And humbled, of course. Of course. It wouldn't do for him to express pride in the award. With good reason: he's done nothing to earn or deserve it. Consider that any normal person would be bursting with pride after being named for that international honor. For a normal person, a Nobel Prize for peace or for any of the other categories of honorees, such as literature, medicine and science, would engender feeling excitement and happiness. Those emotions would reflect that the person was being rewarded and honored for years of research, work and accomplishment in their chosen field. But Barack Obama isn't a "normal" person. He's a man of mixed race with a clouded family history who somehow got out of the comfortable middle class and into the heady ether of the Ivy League. How or why we don't know, but get there he did, using the perks that opened doors to the ride of his life that continues today. It's an amazing story, because despite what many believe were disadvantages of race and birth and possibly religion, he's risen above them – way above them. Consider: a man of little accomplishment who, in the course of barely four years, went from community organizer to politics and now president of the USA. Then on Friday, it's the Nobel Peace Prize. How nice that former vice president Al Gore – who won his own Nobel Peace Prize for his fictional climate-change work and "documentary" along with a Grammy and an Oscar – says Obamas' Nobel is extremely well deserved and an honor for the country. It takes one to know one. [CLICK HERE TO READ MORE]