Does the Nobel Committee Think That a Good Speech is Better Than an Accomplishment?

What has Barack Obama done to deserve a Nobel Peace Prize?

• Increase troop levels in Afghanistan?
• Remove peacekeeping forces in Iraq?
• Talk about nuclear disarmament without actually making progress toward it?
• Promise to close a POW camp without actually doing it?
• Apologize for the U.S. being a bad country from 2001 to 2009?
• Wish for better relations between Israel and Palestine?
• Let Iran build The Bomb?
• Let North Korea test long-range missiles without consequence?
• Invite a policeman and the black professor he arrested to the White House for a beer?
• Help South America get an Olympiad?
• Kill (almost) a boatload of pirates?
• Mention Darfur a few times?
• Give good speeches?
• Bomb the moon?

• Not be George W. Bush?

Good grief, he hadn't even been president for two weeks when he got nominated. I know he talks a good talk about world peace, but so do most beauty pageant winners. That's not Nobel Prize caliber achievement. Giving Barack Obama a Nobel Peace Prize at this stage in his presidency is the peace equivalent of giving a scientist a Nobel Prize in Physics for declaring that he is going to invent a teleportation device.

My esteem for the Nobel Peace Prize is gone.

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We should give him the Heisman, too.