Obamania!!

Do you think Obama had bigger game in his sights when he went on that lobbying mission to Scandanavia last week?

Reporting from Washington — President Obama, who has pledged to place diplomacy ahead of confrontation and reached out to a skeptical world with offers of mutual understanding, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today for what the committee called "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,"

Obama is only the third sitting U.S. president to win the Nobel Peace Prize -- President Theodore Roosevelt won the award in 1906, President Woodrow Wilson in 1919.

I'll admit this seems a bit of a premature beatification, but given the glee with which the right wingers greeted the International Olympic Committee's rejection last week of Chicago's bid for the 2016 Summer Games, I can only imagine the righteous indignation coursing through the halls of FOX News this morning. "In awarding the prize today, the Nobel committee hailed the president's creation of 'a new climate in international politics.'" What a total smackdown of the Dick Cheney George W. Bush presidency.

UPDATE: On cue: Conservatives Blast Obama's Nobel Peace Prize.

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