Among the universal surprise and the sense that the decision of the Nobel PeaceCommittee was not meant to recognize achievement but, in the words of the recipient, "to give momentum to a set of causes," most have already forgotten that exactly a month earlier the denigration of the current president of the USA reached a new low, one that did not even stop before the respect for the Office that the same partybrandished in defense in GW: Joe Wilson's infamous "You lie!"
But while his country is busy casting doubts on his competence, accomplishments, good faith, and even birth place, the rest of the world cannot help taking a huge breath of relief at the realization that Barack Obama is making good on his campaign promises, and has already brought the United States back into the consortium of a multilateral world. And this sense of relief is likely to have played a role in the Nobel Committee's choice, a reaction that seems proportional to the sense of despair that the previous administration had disseminated, a relief rally of hope as powerful as what we are witnessing in financial markets ...
I cannot help noticing how this dichotomy is yet another example of the saying that was first applied to Jesus Christ, that
A prophet is not without honor except in his homeland and in his own house (Matthew 13:57)
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