If he does that, he would deserve immense credit -- perhaps even a Nobel Peace Prize. But he hasn't done any of that.

Pre-emptive peace?

because he's not George Bush; and Joe Biden is not Dick Cheney. I think that the Nobel Peace Prize is the least the world can do to acknowledge that fact.

Are blessed with the award not for actual accomplishments so much as what we hope they represent to our best interests.

That was not made clear. And since it is standard Liberal Greenwald Jew hating doctrine that the IAEA is a Jew puppet meant to persecute the peaceful peaceloving Persians of peace, it's obvious that the Jews manipulated the innocent Swedes into giving this award out. Or at least that's what Greenwald/Cole/Iran/al Qaeda will say soon.

It's funny to me that none of the journalistic coverage seeks to contextualize the aware in light of the events of the last month. A month ago, the US was poised on the brink of a new nuclear arms race with Russia and was short on options in dealing with Iran's apparent quest for nuclear weapons.

The Obama administrations choice to unilaterally remove the prime irritant with Russia -- "defensive" nukes placed in former Soviet Block countries -- was derided on the right. I remember especially a scathing critique from Sen. John McCain.

Some wondered at the time whether this was part of a bargain with Russia, or what the repayment would be. That became obvious last week when Russia finally came to the table in talks with Iran as our partner instead of Iran's. In the course of a week we had a secret reprocessing plant revealed, Iran agreeing to inspectors, and agreeing to ship material to Russia for reprocessing instead of insisting on doing it internally.

Yes it is true that the Peace prize normally recognizes a lifetime of work for peace and Mr Obama will have a challenge to live up to the example of the other winners and make the rest of his life worthy.

But in terms of an award created by the man who invented TNT in guilt over the destruction his creation wrought, it is appropriate to give this to Mr. Obama to recognize this very real reversal of course.

Perhaps this is the Nobel committee's way of recognizing that the citizens of the United States took steps toward promoting peace and rejoining the world community in a more constructive way when they went to the polls last November. The President is our proxy, our representative, and it would make sense that he receive it on our behalf...

Uhhhh idiot- The Norskis, not the Svensk dispense the Nobel Peace Prize. But then again, what's the diff? They're all a buncha lib'rl Jew hatin' pussy goys after all, right? Ya seen one; ya seen 'em all!

We are in dire need of better trolls around here.

No? Okay fuckwit go back to sleep now.

"Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges."

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Europe is a continent that should be ignored by America, not courted as Obama is doing. Twice in a centry tens of thousands of Americans died to free European countries from the cluthes of tyranmy. The only land America has held on too holds the graves of our young boys, cut down in the prime of life because our country thought we could ensure our freedom by the freedom of others...by spreading our democractic ideology.

America was loved when the Russian bear threatened to roll thousands of tanks across the plains of Poland and Ukraine..we were needed by Europe and we stood by our friends.

With the support of Ronald Regan, people in Poland were encouraged, people in Hungary were mobilized, and ultimately the "wall" came down, and with it in time so did the Soviet Union. And Europe had no need for America...the threat was gone.

And these are people Americans are supposed to worry if they don't like us? These ungrateful insignificant little countries that war with each other at the drop of a remark.

With the rise again of Russia and it KGB leadership...daffy duck will be able to win a Nobel prize in Europe in the next two years if he lived in the United States.

BUBA, WAKE UP ! WAKE UP BUBA … YOU BEEN SLEEPING FOR 9 MONTHS. WHATZ UP MA ? WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING, THEM U R PEE INGS DONE GIVE YOU “THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE” !!! WHATZ THAT MA ? IT;S AN AWARD, BUBA. FOR ALL THE GOOD WORK YOU HAVE DONE IN YOUR LIFETIME TO PROMOTE PEACE IN THE WORLD.

I NEVER DONE ANY WORK MA. JIMMY CARTER DON'T WORK EITHER BUBA, AND HE GOT THE AWARD. BUT MA, OLE JIMMY JUST GOES EVERYWHERE TELLING PEOPLE HOW AMERICA IS NO GOOD, AND HANGS OUT WITH TERRORISTS. WELL BUBA, THEM NOBEL PEOPLE SEEM TO LIKE TERRORISTS. THEY GAVE THE PEACE PRIZE TO ARAFAT BUT MA, HE'S A REAL TERRORIST, KILLED THOUSANDS. I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING LIKE THAT MA. JUST KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT., BUBA. THERE'S $1.4 MILLION COMES WITH THE AWARD. MA, I DON'T THINK I WANT IT.... MARY LOU WILL CALL ME A TERRORIST AND SAY I SOLD MY SOUL FOR MONEY. WELL BUBA, ANOTHER ONE THAT GOT THE AWARD DID JUST THAT. REMEMBER, ICE AGE AL'S USED CARS. YEAH MA. WELL, HE WAS THE GUY ALWAYS RUNNING AROUND SCREAMING GLOBAL COOLING, WHILE SCREWING EVERYONE ON USED CARS. SEEMS THAT HIS COUSIN AL GORE HAS HIT IT BIG. AS V.P. ALL HE EVER DID WAS COVER UP WHAT WAS REALLY GOING ON IN THE ORAL, I MEAN OVAL OFFICE, FOR THAT BUDDY OF HIS, REMEMBER BIG BILL ?. SPENT MOST OF HIS TIME SUPERVISING THE CLEANUP WHEN MONICA WAS DONE. THEY SAY HE DID REAL GOOD AT IT. LATELY, HE IS MAKING A KILLING WITH THAT CRAP AND SWAP. BUT MA, HE'S A LIAR AND A THIEF. BUBA,... SEEMS THAT THEM NOBEL PEOPLE LIKE THEM KIND OF PEOPLE THESE DAYS.