The prize has a long history of going to terrorists (Begin), mass murderers (Kissinger), and war mongers (Woodrow Wilson and Teddy Roosevelt).
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Sorry, DC-- you're obviously one of those benighted Amerikans lacking insight into the True Meaning and Purpose of the Nobel Awards, as Set Forth in the Book of Nobel.

When Obama was awarded the prize, it had the peculiar side-effect of revealing a hitherto-unknown nationwide Amerikan community of Orthodox Nobellians, which was simultaneously outraged and ashamed that we rubes and yahoos Just Didn't Get It.

Who knew? These Nobel proselytizers sprang up on the Internet highways and byways to School the skeptics, doubters, and all-around heathens regarding the perfectly sane reasons Obama was a worthy, even obvious, choice.

Now that I have myself been tried, and come forth as gold, I must needs go forth and do likewise.

So: if you had the appropriate cosmopolitan sensibility, you would be able to appreciate that the prizes awarded to the above-cited Winners were "No Hard Feelings" prizes. You know, like the jewelry Dad gives the Prodigal Son upon his return.

Obama's, on the other hand, was more of a "Doting Grandparent" prize. You know, when you pass Grandpa or Grandma sitting on the porch when you're leaving for basketball practice, and they say, "Come over here a minute!"

They they give you a pinch on the cheek, exclaim, "You're such a good boy!" and tuck a ten-dollar bill into your hand. Think Joseph and the Coat of Many Colors.

Naturally, the expectation is that Obama will eventually qualify for a second award under the criteria you list.

Can I get you some coffee, or Gatorade, and a muffin, or even just an orange if I promise to peel it first?

Hot towel?

I have been impressed with Grayson.

Still, I've been mugged and dragged around the block too often to fall in love with politicians.

So I'll go with the positive impression, hoping against hope that in the not-too-distant-future I won't see him repeating, say, poor Russ Feingold's embarrassing interview on "Democracy Now" this past May, all but hanging his head and mumbling excuses for why Congress literally-- yes, Bill Owen, literally-- won't hear of "single-payer" health care.

In fact, if there's enough in the "Accountability Now" kitty, I suggest that it be splurged on a crash-program to clone Grayson, and that the clones be swapped out a dozen at a time with the present incumbents.

What to do with the defective incumbents? Easy-- extensive cosmetic surgery to transform them into Uighurs, where they can be pieced off to Nowhere Land one group at a time. Once they're in US custody, no one will listen to their far-fetched claims.

Gotta think outside the box, they tell me.

PS: Check link@sig for Matt Taibbi's entertaining take on Grayson.

Obama himself said he doesn't think he deserves his Nobel.
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I was just happy to finally hear something I could agree with!

Click direct YouTube link at signature and see if that works.

jeez, Glenn...

...get over it already. No one *really* thought you were a terrorist for saying Obama didn't deserve the Nobel, OK?

-- ssully
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DNC: GOP siding with terrorists over Nobel

It appears the DNC has just called you a terrorist sympathizer, Glenn. (See Koppelman's article in Salon "DNC: GOP siding with terrorists over Nobel".)

FWIW here's what the terrorists are saying:

"The Nobel prize for peace? Obama should have the 'Nobel Prize for escalating violence and killing civilians,' Zabihulla Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, told the Reuters new agency"

Which actually is more or less one of the points Glenn made.

It's nice to see the DNC growing some sack, but their clumsy rhetoric here makes them look as petty and demagogic as the right wing.

-- ssully - Friday, October 9, 2009 08:57 AM

• Poor rockybalboa's ravings are tragic evidence of the insidious effects of drinking all that fluoridated water.

• Glenn, that Capehart guy had way better bookshelves than you do-- it looks like you're wearing a mortarboard or something!

Also, remember to smear your nipples with Vaseline so they don't make rustling noises into the lavalier mike when you shift your weight-- and shifting your weight is a must.

• I made a few comments at the "Coming soon to a browser near you: The new Salon" article by By Richard Gingras. I hope those "count" as feedback, even though I didn't go to the linked feedback sites.

I honestly don't know whether "raw" comments are simply reduced to ticking off pro vs. con, but the comments overwhelmingly make the same damning complaints-- and the article gives the impression that the design work is substantially complete, and release- or is it "roll-out"?-- imminent.

I'm far from the only person who is skeptical of whether our solicited "feedback" counts for anything. Like the No Insurer Left Behind fiasco, and so many comparable debacles, my unabashedly cynical guess is that the Insiders will push through their ill-constructed agenda of "improvements", and deliver a problematic product disguised as a solution.

It tastes like burning!

I just hope that Joan's not on the phone with Arianna this very minute, sobbing her heart out-- with Arianna urging her to Stay Strong.

Olivia Newton-John does come from a brainy family.

Her dad worked on the code breaking project at Bletchley Park and her grandpa (Max Born) was a Nobel prize winning physicist.
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And yet, swimming against the the tides of family tradition to pursue a career in show biz instead of science, there must have been many occasions when Olivia heartily wished her grandpa had never been Born.