The real injustice of the Nobel peace prize

I did not want this post to be political.

I had planed on contemplating the enjoyment and pleasure of a good Cigar versus the fulfillment and satisfaction of a large meal of comfort food like a good homemade Mac & cheese or the subtle thoughts one has after a morning spent in a misty Rain forest watching nature as the sun slowly dissipates the mist and warms the forest floor.

But unfortunately the Awarding of the Nobel peace prize to our president dear leader Obama has abruptly torn me away from my day dreams of Misty rainforests, Cigars and Mac & Cheese.
My first thought was why?
My seconded thought was whatever more politics so what.
Then I began to contemplate the universe, Right and wrong, Karma and all the deep thoughts normally reserved for day dreams or inhalation of certain substances I have not partaken of since my adolescence.

Why did he get the award? Did he bring peace to the Middle East? Did he use his standing as the first Black president to reduce the epidemic of Black on Black crime in our inner cities? Including his home town of Chicago?
Better yet did he quit toting himself as the first Black president and instead pronounce himself as what he truly is the first mixed race President and use that to truly bring about a post racial America?
Did he halt the Genocide in Darfur? Bring us out of recession? Help any one besides his political cronies? The more I thought about it the more I could not point to any major accomplishment let alone something worthy of being awarded the Nobel peace prize.

So He got the award based on his celebrity or adoration of left leaning intellectuals so what.
There is a bigger injustice here and a bigger story. Who did not get the medal?

Seema Samar was the odds on favorite to win the prize. She has risked her life fighting for woman’s rights in Afghanistan in defiance of the Taliban.
Another favorite to win was Hu Jia a Chinese human rights activist who has actually been jailed for speaking out.

If Obama wants to accept the award fine take the medal but at least give the monetary part a whopping 1.4 million dollars to the people who could really use it and should have got it to begin with. That is the real injustice here think of how much more good these people could have done with that money.
Think about how much more awareness there would be for there causes world wide.Instead they give it to a politician who has done nothing yet to deserve it. What a waste of such a great award.

But what do I know for I am but a simple man in a complex universe. Now back to good Cigars versus Mac & cheese something I can understand