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Hello? Hello? Anyone? Is this thing on?

Well, if I have any readers left... Hiiii! I'm back! Life has been so crazy since I left the Bay Area. In the last six weeks, I've started school, moved into a huge 4 bedroom house, find myself referring to myself as a Producer with great ease and started working on my 1st student film!

Of course I could go into much more detail, but that's not why I'm writing. I have actually found very little to write about (even with all the stuff going on in my life), until now. Only one thing has prompted me to write in my blog today... President Obama and his Nobel Peace Prize.

I am shocked... shocked I say, at the dissent among Americans in not supporting our President. It's disgusting really. The world has just recognized our country, through our President, as having a profound positive affect on the international community, and we can't even stand behind him and show support for the recognition? Why the f not?

I mean, hello... it's not like they gave this to George Bush, a President, I think we can all agree, who truly doesn't deserve it.

The #1 complaint I hear everyone saying is "he hasn't done anything to deserve it" or "it's too soon." While I tend to agree with the latter, to blatantly say he hasn't done anything to deserve it is just preposterous.

Here's what the Nobel Peace Prize committee said as their reasons for giving it to Obama now (from AP Newswire):

The judges found his promise of disarmament and diplomacy too good to ignore.

The five-member Norwegian Nobel Committee - four of whom spoke to The Associated Press, said awarding Obama the peace prize could be seen as an early vote of confidence intended to build global support for the policies of his young administration

They lauded the change in global mood wrought by Obama's calls for peace and cooperation, and praised his pledges to reduce the world stock of nuclear arms, ease U.S. conflicts with Muslim nations and strengthen its role in combating climate change.

"Some people say - and I understand it - 'Isn't it premature? Too early?' Well, I'd say then that it could be too late to respond three years from now," Thorbjoern Jagland, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, told the AP. "It is now that we have the opportunity to respond - all of us." Jagland said the committee whittled down a record pool of 205 nominations and had "several candidates until the last minute," but it became more obvious that "we couldn't get around these deep changes that are taking place" under Obama.

I personally think Barack has had a PROFOUND effect on our country and the world... we just haven't seen the effects of it yet. And probably won't for decades to come. Change is a long process, it's not something that happens overnight. And profound change takes even longer. The Nobel Peace Prize committee just wants to be ahead of the curve on this one... and I think/hope they are right. I believe we won't see the effects of the Obama Administration for at least a decade, if not longer. Should we have waited until then to give him the Peace Prize? Maybe so. But it wasn't up to us. It was up to the five people on the committee. And they felt the time is right now.

So instead of crying ourselves a river because we're an anti-Obama country these days, why not just say thank you and continue to work towards solving problems here at home and abroad?

Oh that's right... that's what our President has already said he's going to do. Hmm...