The Nobel Peace (sur)Prize.

Compare these two scenes. The difference between the two I believe says a lot about why the Nobel Peace Prize was given to President Obama. While Bush gets dissed at a G20 conference, Obama has a warm conversation with Brazilian President, Lula da Silva (a pretty rare occurrence in the history of US-Latin American relations).

Whatever my disagreement with the Obama administration over continuing the folly of nation-building while war-making in Afghanistan, and its continuation of reprehensible Bush-era policies like rendition, I'm grateful to have a president who people in other countries see as a person of reason and hope.