Even in Europe, where Obama is hugely popular, many editorials and pundits questioned what he had done to deserve the award.

"Scrap the Nobel Peace Prize," foreign affairs commentator Bronwen Maddox wrote in The Times of London. "It's an embarrassment and even an impediment to peace. President Obama, in letting the committee award it to him, has made himself look vain, a fool and dangerously lost in his own mystique."

Yet Obama was humble in acknowledging the prize.

"Let me be clear: I do not view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments, but rather as an affirmation of American leadership on behalf of aspirations held by people in all nations," Obama said Friday in the White House Rose Garden. "To be honest, I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who've been honored by this prize."

^ From an AP article I read on Yahoo.com. It's really easy to seem humble.

 

I look at the poll. Who voted 'yes'? Whoever you are; go away.

 

Obama has publicly handled it well, saying that he is humbled and donating the prize money to charity. A truly humble being would decline to accept something that they felt they do not truly deserve. It is hard to say, as Obama does, that someone who does not deserve the award should not decline it because the award itself brings honor to the person and the nation he represents. It would be more honorable to decline the award, then to accept it under false pretense. Someone who is humbled does not accept awards because they bring them honor. That is the opposite of being humble.

I saw a headline in the news that read, "Fight Breaks Out Over Peace Prize." It is ironic that this Peace Prize initiated violence.

 

Yes, only because it pisses off republicans. Otherwise, I guess I just don't care.

 

Thats the American spirit!

Obama deserves Nobel Peace Prize because...it pisses off his opposition.

Case closed.

We should also have a single payer healthcare system, completely open the borders, deny all gun rights, increase the size and power of government, and increase taxes. That will **** them off even more. FTW!

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^ You have it right!! Then yinz can kiss your Audis goodbye because not EVERYONE can have an Audi!! HELLO YUGO!!!

 

Link to article titled, "Majority of Nobel jury 'objected to Obama prize"

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp...3yU5Zu4BHMqFdw

Not surprisingly, the push for the prize to goto Obama came from the countries socialist party.

 

Conan had a good one last night: "Last night, the White House hosted a tribute to Latin music, and President Obama wiggled his hips a little on the dance floor. At which point a committee in Sweden immediately awarded him a Latin Grammy."