Obama, Olympics, and the Nobel Peace Prize

Given that I consider the Nobel Peace Prize (past recipients include: Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, Henry Kissinger, and Yasser Arafat*) and hosting the Olympics (past recipients include: Beijing ‘08, Moscow ‘80, Berlin ‘36) to be dubious ‘honors’, I really can’t get particularly worked up over Obama winning the former and losing the latter.

*The Nobel Peace Prize is to be awarded "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work [1] for fraternity between nations, [2] for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and [3] for the holding and promotion of peace congresses”.  Given that I sincerely do not consider the latter two goals on the list admirable,I cannot take the ‘award’ too seriously.