There are striking ironies surrounding the people who want to claw at Obama's Nobel Peace Prize win.

[LoZoccolo]

The people complaining that Obama doesn't deserve the Nobel Peace Prize are using the tactic that they have always used to affect change: complaining about their public officials as a way of trying to change the world. This is the lowest of the low, and the laziest of the laziest. Voting is the last resort in a participatory democracy. If they were diligent enough to figure out how the system works, they would realize that the key to getting what they want is to gain consensus with the populace, and that our elected officials are simply a reflection of that. They would also realize that complaining that the end result of the system - the office-holder - is not doing what they want is futile, especially when these same people time and time again refuse to take responsibility for doing the hard work of democracy.

This behavior is the opposite of a Nobel Prize winner, and is the mark of a player-hater.

The real activists don't have so much time to complain on the Internet that other people are not doing what they want.