Did President Obama win the Nobel Peace Prize because Europeans were caught up in his cult of personality, or the Nobel committee loves Democrats?  Should he give the prize back?  Does only his enormous ego prevent him from doing so as Glenn Beck believes?  Here are 5 reasons the committee was justified in passing the award to Obama:

1. Before his inauguration, Obama took enormous political risk in arguing that the United States should hold dialogue with its enemies (most famously in a debate with John McCain).
     He convinced a majority of Americans and that is now U.
   S.
   policy.
   
2. January 22 - On his second da as president, Obama announced he would close Guantanamo Bay Prison in a year.
   Since then, he has made diplomatic effort to find habitation for innocent detainees, even while political foes accuse him of endangering the U.
   S..
   Later the Obama Justice Department drops 'enemy combatants' label on detainees, marking a return to the Geneva Conventions.
   
3. April 5 - In a speech to the public in Prague, Obama details his nuclear weapons reduction plan, which calls for irigorous international diplomacy and a respect for the right of developing countries to enrich uranium for energy.
     For this purpose, he proposes an international nuclear fuel-bank..
   
4. June 4 - Obama makes landmarkspeechin Cairo.
     In the speech, Obama quoted all three major world religious texts and spoke Arabic, in a plea for the West and Muslim world to find common purpose.
     He also admitted U.
   S.
   involvement in the overthrow of the Iranian government, a move heretofore never made by a U.
   S.
   president, aiming to invoke a spirit of honesty.
   
5. Sept 24 - In another first for a U.
   S.
   president, Obama presides over a U.
   N.
   Security Council summit, where leaders agreed unanimously to resolutions aimed at elimination of nuclear weapons.
   

All of these are concrete actions towards peace in the world.
  Yet in the current political environment, where radio hosts think that reaching out to other nations is 'demasculating America' and Joe Scarborough says there's 'no upside' for the president winning the prize, and media figures are openly considering torture as acceptable, Obama is clearly facing difficult odds.
George Bush said that the United States is a peace loving nation.
  I'll let the reader decide if that is the case.