John McEnroe says...

...you cannot be serious!?

The awarding of the Nobel Peace Price to President Barack Obama landed with a shock on darkened, still-asleep Washington. He won! For what?
For one of America's youngest presidents, in office less than nine months — and only for 12 days before the Nobel nomination deadline last February — it was an enormous honor.
The prize seems to be more for Obama's promise than for his performance. Work on the president's ambitious agenda, both at home and abroad, is barely underway, much less finished. He has no standout moment of victory that would seem to warrant a verdict as sweeping as that issued by the Nobel committee.
And what about peace? Obama is running two wars in the Muslim world — in Iraq and Afghanistan — and can't get a climate change bill through his own Congress. ((that last one is a bad thing?? -- Jemison)) His scorecard for the year is largely an "incomplete," if he's being graded.

I'm no fan of Bush, but I have to call this one as the ultimate expression of BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome). I'd say that awarding the Nobel Prize on the basis of not-being-Bush severely cheapens its value, except the committee already did that years ago by handing it to Arafat.