The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to President Obama early on in his rein, in order to keep him in a "medal box". This award will now define everything he does internationally and that is exactly what the International Community is banking on. 

Obama will now carry the extra burden of being judged as a Nobel Peace Prize winner. It will have a profound impact on what he does and how he does it from here on out as our President.

By giving him the Nobel Peace Prize now, it assures the international community that he will act in ways more keeping with their liking of what an American President should be and how they expect him to act on the international stage. 

If one is totally objective, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded at best to President Obama on the promise of what is to come. He certainly is not deserving of a prize for his accomplishments to World Peace to date. 

Since taking office less than a one year ago, the World is a much more dangerous place. North Korea continues unabashed to proliferate their nuclear weapons technology and missile testing. Iran has thumbed its nose at the World and defies international law and treaty by ³secretly² building uranium enrichment plants to perfect their nuclear weapons goals. Iran has stepped up its rhetoric with regard to the destruction of the State of Israel and floods Afghanistan and Iraq with weapons that are used to kill our troops. We are still fighting al qaeda on numerous fronts and their threats to our national security are real and apparent. 

President Obama has found new friends in Chavez of Venezuela and Khadafi of Libya, who from the podium at the UN praised his leadership and wished he could be the US President for life. Despots love our President. They love him because they perceive weakness. They are counting on America to appease them rather than to stand up to them. 

If apologies and pandering are important criteria in getting awarded a medal than our President surely deserves the Gold. He started in Germany as candidate for president and it continues in the every speech given in every country he has visits and every summit he attends. He has never missed an opportunity to denounce his own country on the shores of another. 

Mr. President congratulations on this great achievement you join the ranks of other worthy recipients like, Yassir Arafat, Kofi Annon, and Jimmy Carter.

By: Bradley A. Blakeman, Georgetown Professor 2009 Public Policy and Politics, Deputy Assistant to President George W. Bush, 2001-2004.