Another A-Pee article. Here's the salient point:More often, the prize is awarded to encourage those who receive it to see the effort through, sometimes at critical moments.
The timing of this being published at the same time that Noobama's prize is announce is either serendipitous or maybe the author felt compelled somehow to see if this might possibly be some kind of, err, "mistake". Personally, I think it's political payback of some kind, as Noobama gets to keep the $1.4M purse that happens to come along with this prize. What are the chances that he'll donate this to charity? And do I read things right that he was nominated for this prize about ten seconds after he became president elect?
No more shred of credibility for the Nobel Peace prize, I guess.