Checking out the history of the Nobel Peace Prize, you will find that in the 103 years since the first one was awarded, 15 Americans won. Some were diplomats like Elihu Root, Frank Kellogg, Ralph Bunche or George Marshall. Others range from a scientist like Linus Pauling to clergymen like John Mott of the YMCA or Martin Luther King Jr. Just four were presidents of the United States, and a contrasting group they are. Winner of the very first Peace Prize was Teddy Roosevelt, the intrepid Rough Rider and “bully” head of state who negotiated the end of the Russo-Japanese war in 1906. That was a peace that lasted nearly 40 years. In 1919 a quiet academic named Woodrow Wilson won for founding the League of Nations, an achievement that looked truly noble (not Nobel) at the time, even though it crumbled barely two decades later. No other U.S. president won until 2002 when they gave it to Jimmy Carter who never succeeded at anything except building homes for the needy, a worthy achievement but hardly Peace Prize class. We won’t count the 2007 honoree, Al Gore who thought he should be president but didn’t quite make it. And now comes 2009 and Barack Hussein Obama, who did nothing to earn the prize before it was awarded, and now accepts it while escalating a war. Is the Nobel Committee serious? Apparently they are. Somewhere along the line they decided to use the Peace Prize as a political statement. After all, they honored Arafat, a terrorist and liar who robbed his own people, to make a political statement, namely that they were accepting the Arab line about “Palestinians” being a nation. They honored Gore for losing to Bush. And now they honor Obama for nothing except for not being Bush. Let’s face it — I have no chance to be nominated for a Nobel. Thank G-d! If they offered it to me I couldn’t accept such a polluted prize.