How Obama Could Earn His Nobel Prize - TIME

SHOOT: I have another suggestion. He tells Americans that the game is up, that America can no longer afford to be the world's largest consumer of energy and polluter. He then changes the entire system, introducing massive infrastructural public transport changes. He changes the system of suburbia to a more european scaled, multidisciplinary, walkable community, new urbanist style. He focusses America's interests inside America. Problem is, while he must do all these things, I think the average car loving American would hate him for this. And if he doesn't, well the economy and the country will continue surfing on the New American Pipe Dream.

clipped from www.time.com How Obama Could Earn His Nobel Prize By Joe Klein Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks about winning the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. Chip Somodevilla / Getty The Nobel Peace Prize, presented prospectively — a triumph of hope over inexperience — threatens to become a central metaphor of Barack Obama's turbocharged political career. He seems fated to be feted for who he is not (George W. Bush) and who he might turn out to be, but not for things he has actually done. This is dangerous stuff, politically. It almost guarantees disappointment. So the prize presents him with an immediate challenge: How does he go about actually earning it? But an opportunity for a grand gesture may be developing in the most unlikely of locales: the Middle East.