If you dig around to the members of the committee who make this decision...it’s a fairly oddball group of intellectuals who don’t travel much, socialize only with other intellectuals, and never spent anytime with regular people.
Anybody care to lay odds about Romney being awarded this prize in 2013? Something along the lines of "No way, Jose" to a "Snowball in He77!"
I think that a lot of 'prestige' went down the crapper when that '09 prize was given to the Obama. This award to the EU for 'Peace' will do little to boost that viewpoint.