Okay, so I want to put in my few cents on Obama's Nobel Prize. Being half-Swedish and an academic to boot, I happen to know a thing or two about the prizes. I've been to the banquet at Stockholm city hall, I have friends in the Royal Swedish Academy of Science. (who tell me nothing.. :) They take the secrecy and it all very seriously)
While I don't know anyone in Folketinget (the Norwegian parliament), I still think I've got a pretty good idea what they were thinking.