Yes, it was a shock when the Nobel Prize committee announced the Peace Prize this morning.

 It was a shock just how ugly people can behave about a huge compliment a man did not ask to have. That's the major embarrassment - not him.

Does President Barack Obama deserve the peace prize? Hell yes! Because if I'd had people buzzing around me like mean gnats saying nasty things about me every second of every day, I know I would come to the point where I would have dropped the bomb on all of the gnats and had done with it. Take that job and shove it!

 Instead, he is going on with his work, and treats everyone decently, with courage, quiet intelligence, integrity and vision. That's a man of peace. In the face of so much ugliness he keeps going.

 The Nobel Prize Committee was pointing out a man has been,  well before he became president, determined to make a change in this country when so many people seem determined to trip him up. He did not ask for this award to happen, and was genuinely surprised and humbled by the act.

Why the committee made the choice many can speculate. They seem to have been making a statement that the rest of the world echoes - they believe he is a man who can lead us into change that the whole world needs. But it's about time some people grew up and stopped begrudging a man who is doing a job  most of us would not want to have.

I am proud of our president. I am proud of everyone determined to make a change in this country that would be a huge help to you, to me, to millions of people. It takes courage to keep going in the face of so much senseless, petty, ignorant, ugliness. He's got the courage. He's my hero.

If he is not able to bring about peace it will not be for trying. But no one who gets their jollies putting him down will ever deserve the peace prize. Peace is hindered as long as complaints continue about a job not one single complainer would be able to do!

He deserves to be appreciated. For the Nobel Prize Committee's appreciation, I join them.

I stand with the people who recognize decency, integrity, and honor.

 Do you?