Premature recognition for President Obama?

The Nobel Prize committee has pleasantly surprised, shocked or simply outraged millions around the world with its decision to award the 2009 Nobel Peace prize to President Obama.

As far as I am concerned- and to be honest, my concerns matter little to anyone other than myself- the wise men would have done well to wait for a few years to see the tangible outcomes of various proposals that President Obama has beem making over the past 9 months or so.  Otherwise, they make themselves vulnerable to the accusation that this year’s Nobel Prize for Peace has gone to someone who has so far only announced good intentions. Extending the same logic, I (or indeed, millions of other  earthlings) might qualify for next year’s Nobel Prize by just stating that “I plan to discover a process whereby pollutants in the air are converted into fuel, with pure water and clean air being the by-products”. Heck, I may have no clue yet how to do this- but I’d like to!