Actually, it isn't so much that Robinson loses me, but that Robinson is so deeply in love with Obama as to be a lost cause.

This:

Obama has taken on the rescue of the U.S. financial system and the long-term restructuring of the economy. He has launched historic initiatives to revolutionize health care, energy policy and the way we educate our children. He said flatly during the campaign that he wants to be remembered as a transformational president.

is another example of just how blind that love is.  He's entitled to be as head-over-heels as he wants to be, of course, but the stuff that he writes is just so absurd as to be laughable.  If Obama had said he wanted to be remembered as a mighty oak tree, Robinson would be telling us that Obama's working on producing acorns, for heaven's sake.

What kind of amuses me is that Robinson seems to think he's only denigrating those loony, siding-with-the-Taliban conservatives; he seems to have missed that there are many Democrats, liberals, progressives who happen to think that the Nobel Committee made a mistake.

As for Obama having nothing to do with the award, I would love to know how many degrees of separation there were between Obama and the person who nominated him.  No, I'm sure he did not nominate himself, but knowing who did would perhaps shed more light on whether this might not have been more of a political calculation than a humanitarian one.