As some have noted, the US Voter should have been given the award if there is any actual achievement to be rewarded, for electing Obama. (That Obama would be more likely to get it than Clinton hasn't gone unnoticed by many — there's also some personality-cult swooning likely in effect, given the timing of his selection; more astute people have even wondered if the Prize this year was also an attempt to sway US foreign policy, which won't be successful, if so.)

I hope a few more can allow their love of country to exceed their obsessive dislike of the President.

All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle [of self-government], and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels and modified by mutual interests.

—-George Washington, Farewell Address, 1796