WTF? Bono is going to be fucking furious...

Did you read this? Obama won the Peace Prize? How? Waaaay too early (or, depending how you look at it, waaaay too late for the US not to be a hegemonic dicksore).


Update: I have been looking at the announcement, and I can see an inkling of why the Norwegian Nobel Committee decided to make this preemptive peace strike on Obama:

Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future. His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population

For 108 years, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has sought to stimulate precisely that international policy and those attitudes for which Obama is now the world's leading spokesman. The Committee endorses Obama's appeal that "Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges."

I'll try to not see this as a judgment of how awful Bush was for the world, though I don't think the award makes much sense without that strong turn away from unilateralism. Give the man some time. Of course, the Weegie Nobel Committee has been taking a similar tact lately, trying to use the prize in a way that will affect change. (See the Al Gore + friends global warming award a few years back.)

HJ