In my opinion, this was an absurd idea. When I first heard about it I couldn’t believe it. But then I figured out what happened.

Two key people from the Nobel Prize nominating committee were here in the U.S. visiting last summer and went to one of those mega rallies that Mr. Obama was staging around the country where 50,000 people were regularly showing up chanting “yes we can” -- or "yes you can” -- many passing out -- and many just swooning right there in the aisles. These two Nobel Prize committee members saw that, and said “wow, this is our guy”. “Let’s start the paperwork right away”, even though then it was only August 2008, and the election had yet to come. This is what happened.

Continuing, in my opinion, this matter only denigrates the famous and prestigious Nobel Prize. I hope some new people can be appointed over in Norway to bring back the prestige and honor of this great award.

Yes, I’m absolutely delighted Dan Froomkin will move over to the Huffington Post. He’ll write his own columns twice a week, and help lead forward 4-5 other great Huffington Post contributors. I will expect you with Salon, and Dan and his folks to keep us all up to date, and that means give us some good insight. I repeat --- good new insight --- and good new thinking.

On the Washington Post, I will add or rather pile on there -- actually a pile already started by Post management. And you can’t make this stuff up. What’s up with this offer (now withdrawn) to offer access to senior WaPo mgt. for one visit with consulting insight for $25,000; but then for the bigger bucks of $250,000 -- one gets to come back with several repeat visits. I’m sure there would have been a limit before another $250,000 would have been required.

I mean you can’t make this stuff up.

But hold it ladies and gentlemen, I know we all can follow the latest news from former Mayor Marion Barry. That’s riveting.

This is great. Serious job loss numbers continue to pour in, the Obama administration says they are and were surprised as to how bad the economy is, WaPo can give us the latest news on Marion Barry, they can offer to sell (for big bucks) access to a few of the key and excellent columnists at WaPo still left, and then they can terminate one of their top and most read weekly columnists, Dan Froomkin.

I think I’ll just move my news and commentary reading on beyond WaPo as I continue my regular reading of Salon, where I have been almost a charter member, to now include Froomkin and associates at his new employer, plus the NY Times.

Oh yes, let me add in please, FT.com, Economist.com, and Guardian.UK.co --- the later for good Iran news.

Thank you.

I like his work. Keep at it Mr. Froomkin. AND good job to Adriana Huffington for inviting him in.

Thank you Mr. Greenwald for the report. I had been looking for Froomkin in the Post, and figured I must have just missed him that day.

To: Dan Froomkin

Your work and contributions were working. I don't know what's going on at WaPo; but I urge you to resurface somewhere.

Talk to the Salon folks here. I don't see why you couldn't start contributing here, tomorrow.

Stay involved. You do good work.

Thank you.

Bruce from Pennsylvania

ENOUGH ALREADY with this Washington nonsense and "hot air".

Senator Roland Burris should just keep on keeping on as the junior Senator from Illinois. He will do fine.

We have enough critical problems in this country to worry about, and that includes the many fine citizens in the State of Illinois. They, and the rest of the country don't need to take the time to watch the theatrics of current Governor Pat Quinn, and writers of the Chicago Tribune, as they both see an opportunity to "pile on", and beat up again on the former Governor Blagojevich.

My message to both Quinn and Tribune writers: Find something to do; but right now ---- you are talking to yourselves.

Our economy is "tanking", people are losing their jobs, thousands upon thousands are being laid off, families are losing their homes, stimulus money by the billions are going out to companies who then turn around and give some of that to key executives in bonuses -- while thousands upon thousands have no health insurance, and now newly appointed (by about two months) Governor Quinn of Illinois and some Chicago Tribune writers want us to listen to their rants because Senator Burris forgot to mention he was asked to conduct a fund raiser for former Governor Blagojevich, and was unsuccessful ---- and we the rest of the country should be concerned about that. And as I understand it, this was before any talk of a possible Senatorial appointment. I think Governor Quinn and the Tribune writers have been reading too many political novels, because they probably have nothing else to do.

Continuing, all the rest of country that I know of, is either looking for a job, or glad we have one to go to tomorrow. We don't have time for politics as usual.

It's over everybody. Let's all go back to work.

Thank you.