Congrats on the Nobel, Mr. President

Well, while Republicans were still high-fiving each other because Chicago—the president’s hometown—would not get to host the Olympics, Obama was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize.
I wish I could have been a fly on the wall at GOP headquarters when that bomb got dropped. I’ll bet there were some pants filled.
Obama’s Nobel is well-deserved in spite of what the Republicans want you to think. A Nobel certainly isn’t the Olympics, but it has much longer legacy.
Obama won the prize because he’s doing what a president is expected to do, and that’s lay out a sweeping vision and making as much of it happen as he can. People have complained that he’s over-reaching by taking on the ailing economy he inherited, comprehensive health-insurance reform, climate change legislation and more. But I think people got used to the low expectations we had for President Bush. He did little of long-term value, and his second term was devoid of any real accomplishments.
Obama has accomplished more than Republicans want you to remember. His election extended a direct political bloodline that goes back the Martin Luther King Jr. and further to Abraham Lincoln. His election was the fulfillment of a promise that should give all Americans a lot more pride in their country. That alone is Nobel-worthy.
What Republicans need to do is to ask themselves why their worldview is so out of step. At some point, the party needs to do a self-examination.
After years of whining that the cards are stacked against you, that the media is against you, that Europe is against you, and now, apparently, the world is against you, maybe it’s time to take a look inside and see that the conservative philosophy has failed you, and will continue to fail you because it isolates people.