Grapes to Vinegar - Obama's Nobel Peace Prize

I am a President Obama supporter so when he won the Nobel Peace Prize I was elated. I also immediately wondered what the party of Status Quo would say but I already knew. It goes something like this:

Washington » The surprise announcement that President Barack Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize turned into an almost instant partisan brawl in the nation's capital, with Republicans claiming he's not yet worthy and Democrats calling such remarks anti-American.

"I just lost all respect for the award," said Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah. "It used to be one of distinction, but it is hard to give it any credibility."

He called Friday's announcement "a political statement" based less on anything Obama has done and more on who no longer resides in the White House.

• "I just think they were glad George Bush is out of office and that is where the committee seems to be rooted in politics," he said. "Certainly there are people in this world more deserving than President Obama."

• Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele also didn't congratulate the president for claiming the coveted prize.

• "It is unfortunate that the president's star power has outshined tireless advocates who have made real achievements working towards peace and human rights," he said. "One thing is certain -- President Obama won't be receiving any awards from Americans for job creation, fiscal responsibility, or backing up rhetoric with concrete action."

• "What has President Obama actually accomplished?" ~ Michael Steele

• "My first opinion is that he got it because he's black. What did he do that was so great? He hasn't even finished office yet." ~ A hospital worker on Broklyn

• "Obama gives speeches trashing his own country and he gets a prize for it," said conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh.

• "It looks less like an objective award than it does a political endorsement," said William Jelani Cobb, a history professor at Spelman College in Atlanta.
  

I'm waiting for the howls about how President Obama was campaigning of the Nobel Peace Prize when he should have been working on Health Care or sending troops to Afghanistan.

It seems to me this country is losing all perspective on life and what it means to be happy with in seeing another person honored. Sour grapes never taste good and never go down well. I do understand the usefulness of vinegar but I do not understand people who cheer when the loss of an opportunity to create jobs (the Olympics) is cheered and the honor of having our President awarded the Nobel Peace Prize id devalued and booed.

Should our president be derided because he and his expressed vision has world wide appeal as if it's appeasement rather than a call for us all to be better people and citizens of our community, state, country and the world.

President Obama won the Noble Peace Prize for the hope he has expressed and the vision he is working toward, not because he is "Not George Bush." Which, by the way, is a slap at George Bush and the party that supported him for eight years and now cant say "Ronald Reagan " enough.

Has the party of Lincoln become the party of Stromboli?