Reply #7: So you didn't like Liu Xiaobo?

[BlueMTexpat]

If your comment was meant as a slam to President Obama, please at least get your facts straight.

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/

Considering that the temperature between the US and Russia had deliberately been ratcheted up to near explosion point by the abysmally horrible Bush II Administration, surprisingly not so much by its illegal war in Iraq and its problematic war in Afghanistan, but more by its insistance on installing weapons systems in Poland and Czech Republic, along with some of the former SSRs, and that all of those plans were thwarted by President Obama, it's no wonder that the Scandinavian countries (Norway among them) appreciated that ratcheting down. They're all geographically a lot closer to the nuclear actions that could very probably have resulted than we were and had been getting very nervous.

The 2009 Nobel was in major part in recognition of Obama's efforts in that area - and those cannot be denied, much as some still would like to.