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Nobel Peace Prize for Cindy Sheehan?

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Would you believe Cindy Sheehan, Nobel Peace Prize winner?

At a signing for her new book "Peace Mom” in Austin, Texas, Sheehan — President Bush’s most vocal critic against the war in Iraq — announced that she is a finalist for the Nobel Peace Prize.

But the committee that selects the winner of the prize, which is to be awarded on Friday, Oct. 13, has not revealed the list of nominees to Sheehan or anyone else, and has stated only that it had received 191 names by the Feb. 1 deadline.

What’s more, various sites that accept bets on who will be the eventual winner do not list Sheehan as one of the favorites.

Meanwhile, the book by Sheehan is being vastly outsold by a book about Cindy Sheehan — "American Mourning: The Intimate Story of Two Families Joined by War, Torn by Beliefs,” co-authored by Melanie Morgan.

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Morgan, president of Move America Forward and co-host of the top-rated drive-time radio show in San Francisco, compares Sheehan’s actions following the death of her son Casey in Iraq with those of another family that lost a son in the war, Joe and Jan Johnson.

As Morgan points out, Sheehan has called Muslim radicals who killed the two soldiers "freedom fighters” and camped outside President Bush’s Texas ranch demanding to meet with him, becoming a media phenomenon in the process.

The Johnsons, on the other hand, still support the war.

Morgan and co-author Catherine Moy explore other differences: