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Barack Obama and the Flying Circus is a perfect term to describe current President of the United States and his prominent cabinet.

For the past year and a half every single day was and still is about Barack Obama and his extravaganza. Days just does not go by without hearing about Obama.

What did Obama say? What did Obama do? What will Obama say? What will Obama do? In addition, we have witnessed media madness for Obama's dog, Obama's family, Obama's citizenship, Obama's religion, Obama's cabinet, Obama's associates, among others.

However, this ongoing entertainment and late night shows by Obama and his sidekicks are not fascinating anymore.

And, in return for his extraordinary global entertainment, Barack Obama got a present from his circus-men: his first Nobel Peace Prize.

Instead of an Emmy or Oscar, he gets, yes, the Nobel Prize.

The award came as a surprise even to the President Obama himself, he said: "To be honest, I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many transformative figures".

It is not so important that Barack Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize, since the Nobel Prize lost its original meaning long time ago. But, most frightening is that people who support this prize and talk about peace forget the meaning of the word "Peace".

A man who sends soldiers to the battlefield and threatens other sovereign countries cannot be a man of peace, no matter how many prizes you award him with. Do these decision makers have any sense of reality, and what is right or wrong?

Peace is not some mainstream phrase. Without doubt, Obama is very popular at the moment thanks to the media, but that does not mean that Obama is a man of peace. What about war in Iraq and Afghanistan and threats to North Korea and Iran? Are these peace objectives?

Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Benito Mussolini were very popular at the time, but they were not presented with the Nobel Prize.s Yet, they were nominated for the same.

In the end, the question that the Obama presidency should be asked is: Who is the director of this extraordinary performance in which Obama plays leading role?


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