Nobel Peace Prize for Obama premature

U.S. President Barack Obama is a man of great potential; high intelligence, and remarkable rhetorical brilliance. But at this point in his presidency, regrettably, he has yet to match this potential with accomplishment.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Under normal circumstances, the annual Nobel prizes are the equivalent of Academy Awards, "lifetime achievement" recognitions. Thus the prizes this year for medicine, chemistry, and physics featured individuals well into their mature, even retirement years whose work decades earlier (and during the succeeding years) was seminal in advancing knowledge in the field.

But there is a clear bifurcation in Nobel...