Great Day for President

Feels like I'm in a race
But I already won first place

--Keri Hilson, “Knock You Down”

Or as Michael Gerson put it:

the Nobel Committee has . . . decided to give a ribbon before the race, a trophy for aspiration, a gold star for admirable sentiments. Which means [its] decision . . . is entirely, purely, solely political. Members of the committee like Obama's goals and rhetoric. And since they aren't American citizens, this is the only way they could vote for him.

Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize. And his work has yet to begin. Really!

But bully for Obama! That he won; it’s not his fault! And the same day, the stock market hits 52-week highs. My FOX INDEX has reached its new high for 2009 [chart]. The INDEX measures as a percentage the distance traveled from the market’s March 9 bottom; while also marking the distance remaining to its pre-crash healthy level (12,000 Dow, 1,300 S&P, 2,500 NASDAQ). As of today, the distance traveled from the bottom to healthy has covered 63% of the full path.