I can't see the frickin' video either, but I will offer Mr. Reich some free advice he hasn't paid for:

The time is past when mere American citizens can influence health care "reform." It's no use preaching to us mortals. It's between big money insurance and whatever conscience Peace Prize Obama has left in his soul.

You'd do better to explicate what that laureate woman has to say about economics and the commons, and best to get crackin before Obama and Waxman give the store away to elite polluters.

Just saying. Tralala.

Read Friedman in the Times today to see DLF's position taken to its logical extreme. The Nobel prize for the reduction of standing armies should go to the most powerful military on the planet, per Doublethink Tom.

It's official: war is now peace.

DLF, both the Dalai Lama and Aung Sun Suu Kyi lead nonviolent protest movents against brutal regimes.

What has Obama done that would lead you to compare him to them?

I'm sure she'd look great "natural" but seriously, she's got great style sense.

Certainly her hair is at least as natural as the helmet-head First Lady look that existed until Hillary.

Hey! I just said something nice about Hillary. Proably not the kind of compliment she'd want though. Nice hair Madame Secretary. You're still a crook.

Among nonelite, non-blue haired white women though, ihave to agree I've known zero who use wigs or extensions and few who do much more than blowdry, other than weddings or whatever.

White womens hair seems to have gotten simpler since the Farah Seventies, so has men's hair. Men of all races look like boot camp attendees.

Sorry, Phillistine, but that's a classic.

Just to set the record straight, Obama is an adult male with two girls of his own, and his racial and cultural background and family are mixed. He has referred to himself as a "mutt."

And he also happens to be the most powerful person in the world. He rides to the White House in modified attack helicopters and commamds the most powerful military force in the world. He does not carry his books to a high school in Little Rock. And never did.

No, Obama is not a little girl of color. He is, however, in charge of a military that has killed civilians "of color," including little girls.

Whether that should disqualify him from the Nobel is another question.

Obama has accomplishments, and we need to consider them not only to understand this award, but the trend in recent awards.

The international elite has moved beyond McWorld vs Jihad interpretations of world conflict. The Bush administrations isolationism and recklessnes, culminating in the global financial collapse, are passe. The elites do not see Islam as the singular threat, and regard extreme private corparatism as even more threatening because of its tendency to foster elite vs elite competition.

Obama represents the new duality for the elites: "benign" internationalized state capitolism ona Chinese model vs democratic process.

That's why the elites aren't bothered by Obamas continued spying on citizens and ignore his defense of immunity for torturers. The elites are no longer really about absolute human rights or liberties, though they are adamantly in favor of noblesse oblige charity.

Obamas use of the recession to place Americans in debt but enrich international finance makes sense to elites, especially coupled with health care posturing.

The elites agree that global warming is a reality, and they favor Obamas choice to enrich corporations while placing the cost burden on Americans.

This is exactly the kind of state directed corpoate approaches to real problems that the Nobel committee has come to applaud. No more awarding the prize to freedom fighters who will likely just be locked away forever or assassinated.

Too many numbers.

But Zorkna will be pleased to find that white men are described as "shitty."

I wonder what percentages of people by race/gender set preferences that are inclusive of other race/ethnic backgrounds.

Also are black women more likely to reject nonblack men than black men?

There's not enough comparative numbers to blame this all on men.

Lots o empowerment going in the letters sections.

It's kind of like punk rockers jumping in the mosh pit and then complaining if the catch an elbow in the nose.

I think dampens critics on the left.

I think the prize elevates his platform , despite the justifiable backlash.

How about a compensation fund for innocent victims of Bush's war and torture policies?

I get to declare that Virgo is not a racist just because she doesn't want to go out with white men.

I mean, I don't want to go out with white men either!

I have gone out with a couple AA women though, and both had "rules" about touching their hair.

I guess that makes me a sucker of Limbaugh's manbreasts.

The causation logic in American political rhetoric can be difficult to follow sometimes.

I meant:

...what Obama should say when he refuses the award

I think your second para is exactly what Obama should say--when he turns the award.

I mean, I can't stand the ex, but he did at least get a Peace Treaty or two.

As were others who actually stuck their necks out in the Bush years, as were those who risk their very lives abroad to protest or report.

Classy balanced article though, spot on.

Jessica Simpson snags a well-deserved Nobel for Physics

The Chemistry award is shared by Kanye West and Taylor Swift

None of it adds up, except "not Bush.". I bet they didn't spend a moment considering his policies or "achievements."

The Swedes are still celebrating the innaugaration.

Because their laureate won't.

I can't wait to see what they've won!

Seiously, I think the Swedes should have given it to any number of serious activists in the US (hell, Grrenwald). It's like giving it to LBJ instead of MLK.

To announce the end of Gitmo and other illegal detention.

To promise sure justice for torturers employed by the US