The Nobel Peace Price has long been viewed with disdain, but now all
doubt has been removed. Awarding a prize to someone who hasn't even
*done* anything yet, while bypassing many worthy candidates, such as
Sima Simar, women's rights activist in Afghanistan, is disgusting: "With
dogged persistence and at great personal risk, she kept her schools and
clinics open in Afghanistan even during the most repressive days of the
Taliban regime, whose laws prohibited the education of girls past the
age of eight. When the Taliban fell, Samar returned to Kabul and
accepted the post of Minister for Women's Affairs."

Truly, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee has turned their "prize" and
themselves into a laughing stock. If Obama had true empathy for the
downtrodden, he'd refuse to accept it.