Barack Nobel Obama

Okay, it is official: the world loves him.
President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize last week and there has been much written and knocked about as to why he got the ultimate humanitarian prize. The Right believes that they are receiving the middle finger from Oslo; the Left believes that it has just received a high-5.
Now, I have an opinion on this that I want to get it out of the way and in print. I spoke to a friend yesterday who asked for it and all I said was, "No comment." I now believe that he deserved to get it. He has changed the game and is trying harder than any other recent US leader to talk to the ones who need a talking to, instead of continuing the previous "with us or against us" theory of negotiation. And recall that the prize was not given to him for winning an election. The Nobel committee is specific about how he has acted as a statesman in and out of the Oval Office.
Some names deserve to be remembered (Mandela, Dr King); others still make me cringe (Kissinger, Mother Teresa). Obama has just been given a great big nudge from the international community.
Let's see how he plays this one out.