Even The HuffPo...

Is weirded out by Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

There is some sad metaphor in here about the state of the world today where accomplishment matters less than "hope" or "potential" or being a symbol of so-and-so or worse, by just being the opposite-of-George-Bush in a very George Costanza-esqu way. I mean, is that really it? Looking at the three past American winners - Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, and Barak Obama - the message is clear - we like America that is the exact opposite of Bush.

Is the rest of the world so pathetic that it can only self-identify by being in opposition to a particular American politician?

I would say they've answered the question themselves.