"Claiming to be wise, they became fools...."

President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples," the Norwegian Nobel Committee said, citing his outreach to the Muslim world and attempts to curb nuclear proliferation.

The stunning choice made Obama the third sitting U.S. president to win the Nobel Peace Prize and shocked Nobel observers because Obama took office less than two weeks before the Feb. 1 nomination deadline. Obama's name had been mentioned in speculation before the award but many Nobel watchers believed it was too early to award the president.

via www.foxnews.com

... without further comment....

If you want more, go read

• Rick Sincere - "Is lutefisk hallucinogenic?"
• The Write Side of My Brain
• Crystal Clear Conservative
• Wizbang (here and here as well)

And I'm sure there'll be more.

UPDATE: Yep -

• Fear an Iarthair- " In one of the most mind-boggling, coffee-spewing, curse-inducing moments of computer face-time I have ever experienced, I saw the headline on Drudge, 'Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize.'"
• Legal Insurrection
• Riehl World View
• Fausta
• Gateway Pundit "Un-be-liev-a-bull!"
• Michelle Malkin
• Hot Air (particularly awesome for their round up of links)
• Red State "He's becoming Jimmy Carter faster than Jimmy Carter did!"
• Times Online - "Absurd decision makes mockery of Nobel Peace Prize" (Um, didn't that already happen when it was awarded to Yassir Arafat?)

Comments

[Man of the West]

1.

Thanks for the link!

Great googly-moogly, the whole world's gone nuts...

[Ron]

2.

I read somewhere that they should just change the name to the Yasir Arafat Prize!