Barack H. Obama Peace Prize?

I was looking at a list of past winners. Most of these are for "lifes work". Many of them for decades of work. We also don't know who the competition for Obama was. They don't reveal that information. He may have been the best choice based on the competition. We won't know for 50 years according their rules.

Here's a link to the list.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_Peace_Prize_laureates

• Kofi Annan is on there. He's the leader of the U.N. that botched the Iraq WMD search which lead to the eventual invasion.
• John Hume and David Trimble won in 1998. Bill Clinton worked with these two on peace in Northern Irelend and he didn't get included in the award.
• Yasser Arafat is on the list in 1994 so they're not perfect.
• At least Mother Theresa got one. She deserved it.
• Sadat and Begin won in 1978 but, like Clinton, Jimmy Carter was left out (he later won in 2002 for his decades of work and deserved it).
• Awesome, Lech Walesa won in 1983. Now what he did in Poland was truly an accomplishment bucking big bad Russia.
• Henry Kissinger won in 1973 for the "Paris Agreement". Looks like that was also an award based on promise rather than actual since the Paris Agreement didn't work.
• Martin Luther King won in 1964; that's a good choice.
• Albert Schweitzer won; another good choice.
• Woodrow Wilson won in 1919 for his League of Nations. Of course, America never actually joined the league of nations but it did later evolve into the United Nations. Not bad. I guess on this one the "promise" eventually panned out.
• Teddy Roosevelt won in 1906 for actually ending a war and creating peace without any troops. That's a good one.

Al Gore won in 2007 for making a DVD. Albeit it was a good DVD but a Peace Prize?

In Al Gore's win there was much speculation that Europe was trying to coax him into running for President (that's the speculaton on his Oscar win in Hollywood too). I'm not knocking Gore. It was a darn good DVD but is also miscontrued by many people. They forget to mention things that even Al Gore said because it doesn't fit their agenda. I need to watch it again. I really liked it.

All-in-all it looks like the Peace Prize isn't always accurate like any other award or us humans in general. Kissinger shouldn't have won. They should've waited to see if the plan even worked...it didn't. Woodrow Wilson's was a little pre-mature. In hindsight it eventually led to the United Nations so they lucked out. Bill Clinton should've been included in 1998 but wasn't. Jimmy Carter should've been included in 1978 but wasn't. He later won what he deserved in 2002 so that worked itself out over time. Many others won like they should have. A lot of the people on the list I've never heard of.

Only time will tell if Barack Obama is Henry Kissinger or Woodrow Wilson. Will the promise of peace pay off or will reality result in his award missing the mark?