Recently The Jerusalem Post ran a brilliant and troubling piece by Amir Mizroch titled "Why everyone is saying no to Obama."�

Last Friday the president was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for doing nothing. Don't blame the president. He did not ask for it, and had the grace to say he did not deserve it.

The Nobel Prize gets to the heart of the matter of the Obama presidency. The prize was not awarded to President Obama, but to the idea of Obama.

Voters may vote for an idea. Prizes may be awarded for an idea. But war and peace, prosperity and joblessness, legislation and treaties, illness and health, are not decided by the idea of the candidate but the actions of the president who is...