Reply #9: Here's the difference -

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MLK DID get the civil rights act passed, and suffered great setbacks along the way. People died for his cause, including a child. Churches were burned, and King practically lived most of the early 60's in jail. King fought a power that was much greater than him.

It is true that Desmond Tutu did not see his work come to full fruition, but he did lay the ground work and had spent much of his time into realizing dream and putting the sweat equity into building that dream. When Tutu did win the prize the African Council of Churches was up and running.

Mandela pretty much endured the same struggle that MLK did. Personal imprisonment and fighting a completely uphill battle. The award was given to Mandela for a peace progress that began 4 years earlier, and came to fruition the same year as the Nobel Prize award.

Obama has yet to hang his hat on anything of such great magnitude. He has created no ground breaking organizations as Tutu did, nor has he brought peace to a large swath of the world as Mandela did, nor has he secured the rights for a group of people as MLK did, nor has he awakened the world to a very real and threatening danger as Al Gore did.

I am not saying that he won't do these things, but he has done nothing to show that he will do these things. A prize for peace is being given to a man that is getting ready to ramp up troop levels in a Muslim country - how is that peace?