Driving > Disco

I wanted today to be the day that I got back into blogging more regularly. I was going to update you on my foot issues (more on that later), various musical discoveries and basically, just some light housekeeping for D > D, but when I saw the headline Obama awarded 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, I had to pause for a moment. Mainly because I thought it was a joke headline.

I mean no offense to the man. I did not vote for him, but as the president of the United States of America, I do support him now. The issue I have is that I don't really get what it is that he did to win the award. I mean, he has been in office for the better part of a year and hasn't really done much of anything yet, has he? Again, this is not a bashing session. I don't think any first term president has gotten a boatload of items from their "to-do" list checked off in their first year, but still the Nobel Peace Prize?

In the article, they even state that "the decision appeared to catch most observers by surprise," and how the voters "gasped" when Obama's name was read.

Perhaps this is more of an award for his potential accomplishments, not that it makes any more fair to those that may have done more to deserve it now. On the other hand, I have basically zero actual understanding of what one must do to be nominated, or win, a Nobel Peace Prize, so maybe I am just severely confused (ie - over caffeinated).