Nobel::Loosing its credibility?

Its a Thursday morning, was sitting in the hospital when the sister passed me the Times Of India. The headline says Nobel peace prize to Barack Obama, President of the United States. No one knows his name till the time the election didn't kick off in US (At least for the non US). Then he was elected, at a juncture where the Financial bubble had hundreds of licks in it so all the time (Probably) spent on restructuring the US economy. In the mean time he is trying his level best to reduce and remove the US force from Iraq as early as Feb 2010, and at the same time increasing the soldier strength to 1700 in Afghanistan.

So assume that he is not a president of US, then whether the Nobel committee ever consider him as a probable candidate in first place? The answer is NO. As his political career starts early but nothing remotely to world politics least to peace. He pulls all the limelight when he became the president of US in Jan 2009. From Jan 2009 to till date is barely 10 months, and in these 10 months i as a layman doesn't sense any activity of him that has ever inclined to "P" of P E A C E. But still managed to make his name to the final for the prize. There are several controversies hovering around Nobel prize for fifty years since its inception of the omission of few names which deserve there name to be craved in Nobel, that again acceptable. Its sometimes difficult to choose the best among the best. But that in no way implies you choose someone who doesn't fall into that category at all.

I am feeling sorry for Mr Alferd Nobel whose initiative to promote and acknowledge the best in the respective field has raised million eyebrows for the wrong reason and the wrong selection.