Barack Obama wins Nobel peace prize?

What for?

Some apt astonishment from Glenn Greenwald here and Matt Taibi here.

Benj and Leiter correctly point out that the award is aimed at messaging positive value to not being a Republican.  That's something, I guess.

Update:  speaking of other reasons for not handing Obama the Prize on a platter, how about the fact that he put the foxes in charge of the financial bailout and failed to implement any real reform, causing continuing misery and violence to millions of Americans, as their houses and hard-earned cash continue to go up in smoke and mirrors?  The U.S.: all scam, all the time.