GROWN-UPS ARE STUNNED - AT 9:06 A.M. ET:  We are hoping that the reaction in Poland to this morning's Nobel news will sweep around the world.  There are indications from our check of the internet that it's already happening. Reader Joseph J. Gallick alerted us to this, from the Wall Street Journal:

Poland is stunned to see the Nobel Peace Prize given to U.S. President Barack Obama. You can always count on Poland’s outspoken ex-president and its best-known Nobel Prize laureate Lech Walesa to be undiplomatic:

“Who? What? So Fast?” a shocked Walesa said when reporters told him about the latest Obama win.

“Well, there’s hasn’t been any contribution to peace yet. He’s proposing things, he’s initiating things, but he is yet to deliver,” he said.

Walesa went on to say that we should see this as encouragement for Obama.

Others in Poland are also amazed, so much so that they began questioning the value of the prize.

“Nobel Shnobel,” said Bartosz Weglarczyk, commentator for daily Gazeta Wyborcza. “Obama has great potential, great possibilities, but the peace prize for plans to do something? Chinese dissidents lost as usual because they can no longer plan anything. It’s absurd.”

COMMENT:   Maybe, just maybe, this absurdity will be turned to something good, as people realize what Obamamania has done to the world.  We hope.

October 9, 2009