The jokes are the surest sign of the degradation of the Nobel Peace Prize and by extension President Barack Obama (D).

ABC's This Week host George Stephanopoulos decided to post "conservative activist Keith Appell's" jokes on his website. Here is a sample; feel free to add to them. But remember, this time the target is the Nobel committee; this farce is not Obama's fault.

Air America host Ana Marie Cox: Apparently Nobel prizes now being awarded to anyone who is not George Bush.

Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein: Obama also awarded Nobel prize in chemistry. "He's just got great chemistry," says Nobel Committee.

Adam Bromberg, CRC: Nobel Prize Committee must be staffed by out of work comedy writers.

Kristina Hernandez, CRC: It was the Beer Summit that put Obama over the edge.