From the associated press, it appears that the Nobel Peace Prize is no longer a recognition of accomplishments, but simply liberal political symbolism taken to extremes:

President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a stunning decision designed to encourage his nascent initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and replace unilateral American action with international diplomacy and cooperation.

Nobel observers were shocked by the unexpected choice so early in the Obama presidency, which began less than two weeks before the Feb. 1 nomination deadline.

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In his 1895 will, Alfred Nobel stipulated that the peace prize should go "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations and the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the formation and spreading of peace congresses."

Read it all here.

Two weeks, and he was nominated? Good gosh, you'd think that someone thought he was the messiah.  (Oops, I forgot. Some people do.)

If we're basing awards on ideas and possibilities now, Obama had better quickly come up with an idea for a screenplay.   It's almost Oscar nomination time.