Orca_Azure on 09 October 2009
Aren't most peace winners just recipients because they speak and 'try' to promote peace? Did MLKJ accomplish anything tangible on a wide scale before earning a prize? It's an award based on effort, not on accomplishing the impossible.
Obama deserves it for bending over backwards trying to quell the anger of the world. That first speech to the muslin world, the ongoing diplomacy with iran and north korea, the talks with russia, and trying to bring both wars to an end instead of starting a new one in the middle east have to be worth something.
While the idea of true peace is but a fleeting dream, you'd be hard pressed to find someone who has used his standing in the world to try to achieve it more than obama.
