You don’t suppose giving Obama the Nobel Peace Prize will polarize America, do you?
I thought it was supposed to be a Peace prize.
I guess you can’t blame controversy. It’s going to happen among contentious people, whatever the spark. Still, irony like this is too good to waste 
I think he should magnanimously decline – that would be a peaceful decision.
It would appear that to get the peace prize you don’t have to end any wars, you just have to follow a war monger.
A grook with no reference whatever to the two-party system
To wear a shirt that’s relatively clean,
You needn’t ever launder off the dirt
If you possess two shirts to choose between
and always change into the cleaner shirt.
– Piet Hein
You’re right, but what really happened was that the Nobel “Thank God! Finally we get a statesman.” Prize was at the jeweler’s for replating.