It's a 12-day miracle!

Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass has an enlightening commentary about the Nobel Peace Prize. The article can be read here:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-kass-11-oct11,0,6621520.column

John’s commentary is of course satirical in nature, but he points out a remarkable fact:

• Isn't it great that President Barack Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize?
  
• He'd been in office only 12 days when the Nobel nominations were due. That's a mere 288 hours for Obama to have been credentialed as President Peace.

If you are not familiar with John Kass’s writing you may have missed his original column about “hopium” (note that the date of this column is 7/30/2008):

http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2008/jul/30/news/chi-kass-30-jul30