Accomplished What!?

President Barak Obama won the Nobel Peace prize today, stoking the fires of an already angry, lynch mob conservative movement. Their bogus argument is "what has he accomplished". Yes, our President has been in office just short of nine months and his plate is plenty full. But I turn that back on those same conservatives with that very question. Rush Limbaugh, what have you done to advance the lives of Americans. Glen Beck, Michael Steele, where are you. The latter is especially a joke because he has been neutered by the other two that he has become a puppet, completely irrelevant.

My answer to those who posed that question to our President is...PLENTY! Ask the Tuskegee Airman, or any person of color, they will tell you loud and clear. Barak Obama accomplished what every African-American thought would be impossible in this lifetime. HE BECAME POTUS!

He accomplished that under incredible odds, confounding every naysayer, including this author. He made people like me dream again, that we can live in a world of peace and tolerance. President Obama's message has always been that WE are greater that the differences that divide us. He has the world thinking that maybe, maybe this time we can get it right.

Almost a half century ago another young man won the Nobel Peace prize. Dr. Martin Luther King's message was much like our President preaches now. They are no different. That day Dr. King won the prize, there were also naysayers, segregationists, asking that same "what has he accomplished" question. The seed Dr. King and others sowed has reaped a thousandfold. Those same doubters are here, they claim they're not racists, but let's be real here, they're no different than the hood wearing Klansman from Philadelphia, Mississippi.

Our President has a long way to go and the ideas and policies he's implementing will reap benefits for decades to come. Rush Limbaugh needs to go and do what he does best, pop pills.