Speaking as an ardent Obama supporter.

[gridlore]

WTF, Nobel committee?

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[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

Same here.

[sharrukin.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Odd in the extreme.

[john-appel.livejournal.com]

I think most Americans just don't realize how scary the last 8 years was for the rest of the world.

Don't think it was a great decision on the Nobel committee's part, but I'd lay money that changing the nation's course, even a little bit, had a lot to do with their thinking.

[twfarlan.livejournal.com]

It is a political move. It is at once a condemnation of his predecessor in the office and a rallying cry for the social programs, movements, and change that he represents.

[capplor.livejournal.com]

It was all an attempt to achieve maximum head asplode at Fake News.

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

Would Morgan Tsvangirai have been a better choice?

[melchar.livejournal.com]

IMO it's a hope and a prayer, along the lines of: 'Stay good, Obama, stay good!'

[nsingman.livejournal.com]

Barack Obama is not the first blood-soaked war criminal to get the Nobel Peace Prize, and certainly not the worst. The prize has been meaningless, and utterly uncorrelated with peace, for a long, long time.

[jemstone.livejournal.com]

Has no one considered that this award is based on the facts that -a- he's the first Black President in a nation that not that long ago had laws telling its citizens that Blacks and Whites couldn't marry, and -b- even before the guy was President he was pushing for reforms and communication rather than dogma and isolation?

I mean, maybe I'm crazy, but that would seem to be the Big Two, right there.

[jonathonbarton.livejournal.com]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#33249779

This.