It's a bit premature.

Mr Obama seems to be a man who tries to engage all parties involved in an issue. This is good. But he has been active on the national stage for only about two years and on the international stage for only about six months. Typically, people work for many years -- and actually accomplish something -- before being recognized in this way.

It appears that this award may be for not being George Bush.

I am not a fan of Mr. Bush. But the thing most people dislike him for is the war in Iraq -- and Mr. Bush did not start that war. In our country only the Congress can call up the military. Through the 2002 Iraq War powers Resolution the Congress did so. About two thirds of them voted for this war -- including our current Secretary of State.

This is a part of the mess that President Obama must address. Good luck to him and God bless him. I sincerely hope that he can accomplish something worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize.

It is important for the world to recognize Obama's contribution to realizing and articulating new hope and the hard, but necessary issues of diplomacy, achieving peace in the Middle East, nuclear disarment and halting climate change. Your male commentator in continually questioning how Obama could be given this prize because he is supporting two wars misses the whole point that he did nto start these unilaterally engaged wars and is doing his best to understand them and deal as best as he can. This commentator subtly feeds the negativity of the right wing naysayers and pushes those uncertain of the significance of the dangers of the world to question Obama's contribution and plea for hope and a new way. I think he is to the right of what I expect of this show and I am disappointed with this kind of subtly inflamatory and negative journalism. I will have a cautious view of this program from now on.

Obama's swift courageous approach to save the world economy is a substantial accomplishment and worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize, not to mention closing of Guantanamo, and other dramatic efforts he has made to save America's democratic identity.

One more time: Take John Bolton's name and number out of your Rolodex. His reactions and attitude are entirely predictable.

barack obama's nobel peace price may be somewhat surprising, but it by no means unwarranted. an aspirational prize appears to be a departure for the nobel committee, but when the leader of a country widely recognized as the most important in the world radically changes that country's approach to global involvement, i am reminded of gandhi's admonition to all of us to be the change we wish to see in the world, and the president's approach to world relationships affirms that change always starts with one's self.