I'm one of those who don't care much about the Nobel Peace Prize. Give it to President Obama or my next door neighbors dog, Mox nix. But I would like you to do an article on those countries that now love us and are cheering on Obama. Ihave trouble finding many that do much more than smile and shake his hand with the one not holding the knife.
But more importantly, your comments re: the total lack ofcivil discourse are spot on. Unfortunatly, that horse left the barn several administrations ago and I see no hope for restoration.

Susan, Please write an article on what he has done to deserve the Nobel Peace Price (which is a joke anyway). Our men are getting killed in Afghanistan because he can not make a decision on what to do to help them win the war. Russia, Iran and North Korea just ignore him and the terrorist are laughing as they are plotting their next move to destroy us. Poland will now be vulnerable to attack due Obama and his decision on the shield. He is in alliance with dictators who think he is wonderful because they want socialism as much as Obama does. So Susan please explain what I am missing as I see our Country go down the tubes economically (the dollar is worth nothing) as he has weekly parties and entertainment at the white house along with his vacations we would all love to afford for ourselves but pay for through our taxes. How do you think the unemployed feel? To tell you the truth I do not think Obama cares about anything other then getting his socialistic agenda through and paying back the unions. Please Susan convince me that I am wrong!!!!

Susan, Please write an article on what he has done to deserve the Nobel Peace Price (which is a joke anyway). Our men are getting killed in Afghanistan because he can not make a decision on what to do to help them win the war. Russia, Iran and North Korea just ignore him and the terrorist are laughing as they are plotting their next move to destroy us. Poland will now be vulnerable to attack due Obama and his decision on the shield. He is in alliance with dictators who think he is wonderful because they want socialism as much as Obama does. So Susan please explain what I am missing as I see our Country go down the tubes economically (the dollar is worth nothing) as he has weekly parties and entertainment at the white house along with his vacations we would all love to afford for ourselves but pay for through our taxes. How do you think the unemployed feel? To tell you the truth I do not think Obama cares about anything other then getting his socialistic agenda through and paying back the unions. Please Susan convince me that I am wrong!!!!

Propaganda (presents information primarily to influence an audience)
I think that is the objection. If you think he is great, prove it, demonstrate it – do not just say it.
And that is why people who do not think he is great are speaking up. They are say wait, hold on, he has done nothing to deserve this. True.
Propaganda should be met with skepticism, doubt, and rhetoric. Always.
Unfortunately for Obama he has to take the brunt of the heat for the Nobel Foundation. I actually think Obama is handling the situation (properly).

I have no issue with the Nobel Peace Prize because I lost all respect for that committee when they gave it to an unrepentant Palestinian Terrorist. For every Mother Theresa there is a Jimmy Carter. The level of hatred in politics in the 21st century pales in comparison to the 19th century. We are just getting back to where we once were. As the grandson of a Chicago Ward Committee Chairman , I have bare knuckles politics in my DNA; I did not adopt Chicago and its ways as our current President. The reason foreign leaders hated Bush and love Obama is that Bush was strong, and everyone knew it. Obama is weak, and everyone knows it. The cost of this weakness will be paid by our best and brightest; our US servicemen and women. Susan, I really hope I am wrong, but I do not think so.

Ms. Estrich; you have a very short short memory. For 8 years from 2000-2008 at least some people got up every morning with no mission other than to criticize Dubya as a lying incompetent so and so who was not particularly bright etc. I certainly didn't hear you whining then about the fact that the President's critics were "unduly active" or whatever. And the Nixon is a crook guys, and the "hey hey LBJ how many kids did you kill today" crowds certainly never gave it a rest for even as much as a single day.
So get over it; you're a big girl. And you've been playing the political game since even before your days as a Dukakis campaign manager. [And just WHY did you allow him to be photographed in the hatch of
a main battle tank wearing the Dumbo ears that made him the laughing stock of the country?]
It does not become you to get the vapors over the fact that this President--or any other President's--critics don't sip tea with their pinky finger in the air.

We have a AA baseball player that plays near here that reallly has potential. I suggest we vote him into the Hall of Fame now. I know he will do well when he makes it to the majors. He's personable and has so much promise!

Susan, do not take the critism of Obama so hard. After all the committee that voted him the award has even upset the people of Norway. In going through the European papers I found that all of them were Shocked to learn he was given the award. You may think he has raised the American respectibility around the world, but, I gather from the Muslim nations that they see him as a total failure. Keeping a civil discord about the subject I see is hard for the people who had to listen to the liberal press on a daily basis bashing anything and everything GWB did or said. It is after all politics and the way the Democrats have played the game has set the standards - so what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

Whew! I felt I had to comment on your article particularly because it was set side by side to an article by Cal Thomas - Your readers who have commented seem to take their lead from Thomas. I get the feeling from them that the Nobel Peace Prize is a silly little exercise that warrants mockery of all kind - I can't say I have totally agreed with or even understood all the Peace Prizes handed out over the years, but I am grateful that there is a small contingency of folks who feel it is important to promote and recognize "peace" efforts according to the standards they have established. Bottom line Peace is important - but It seems there are people who deny that.
Thomas states "...a peace prize is meaningless" - You say "What's troubling is the loud and vicious criticism from those who seem to care for reasons that can only be explained by their opposition to all things Obama even the promise of peace." Have we really come to this? How sad......I really want better for my kids and grandkids and all future generations. Silly me!

Sorry Susan, but this is the way American opinion and politics are going to be from here on out. It was the Democrats who hated not just George Bush, but his father, Ronald Reagan, Bork, Quayle, Thomas and every other conservative who had the audacity to have a different opinion than them. Now that the conservative majority has found their voice and have finally begun to give the Liberals back a taste of their own medicine, you cry foul. It is a culture war and an atmosphere of hate that the left has been pursuing for decades. Now they have been engaged and don't like it a bit. Get used to it.

The level of hateful jealousy from the right over the Nobel Peace prize reached frightful proportions. I am particularly resentful of the comments by many Right-wingers who say that it is OKay for them to call Obama a liar because so many on the left did that tho George W. They convieniently forget that Dubya EARNED his reputation as a LIAR by combining with Dick Cheney to lie to the American public and the world via the United Nations about WMDs and countless other situations. They were constantly caught up in lies and later proved to have deceived the American public. A Nobel Prize for Bush? Do they award one for LYING. That administration would win hands down. Too many right-wingers have stuck their heads in the sand and refuse to recognize the damage these two men did to their party. How else could a relatively unaccomplished Black man win a national election against them?
Had they done their jobs in an honest manner, No one could have defeated the right's candidate in the last election. Only when the rightwingers fully reject these two men, and now the unprincipled surrogate, Liz Cheney, will they get back on the road to credibility. Cheering wildly because America's bid for the Olympics failed was unpatriotic and trashing the Nobel award is equally unpatriotic and as such demeans the Republican party which used to embrace every victory that was American.