Nobel peace prize 2009

I don't know... I mean anything is better than George W. Bush I suppose, but to give the next president the peace prize?

Is this just one giant middle finger to the right wing conservatives of the US from Europe? I think I'm going to have to concider it as just that. The peace prize is a hot potato as it is, it's hard to find a political ground where no trouble is started. Even though I can understand why it's around and why it's so important that it's around it might just stirr things that don't need to be stirred. Also to give it to Barack Obama...isn't that kind of like grading the student before the test is handed out? He hasn't even been in office for a full year!

Or maybe, it should be viewed as a plea to the American public to value peace higher than war, and stop honoring the professional killers they send abroad.