Obama Nobel Peace Prize: Newest Of Nobel Peace Prize Winners

Shortly before 6a.m. this morning, President Obama was woken up by his daughters, but it wasn’t a daddy we want breakfast, or a happy birthday daddy wake up call; he awoke to his daughter’s informing him that he had won the Nobel Peace Prize! The shocking announcement that President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize has led to strong reactions throughout the nation ranging from pride to confusion, and outrage to happiness.

Who would have thought it? What a difference a week makes. Last friday, despite great deliveries by the Obamas and Oprah, Chicago was shockingly eliminated in the first round of an Olympiad bid. A week later Obama wakes up to the news of winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

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While the reaction from the conservative blogs and the right-wing commentators was mostly predictable, liberal blog Talk Left seemed to agree with the conservatives stating the award comes undeserved, and further, Obama should politely reject it, “Just because the Nobel Committee wants to make fools of themselves, Obama should not have to play along. He should turn it down.”, they said.

Other lefty bloggers, though, saw some method in the perceived madness. Glenn Greenwald of Salon said that when he first read today’s news he thought those jokers at the Onion had hacked into CNN.com. But then he realized that perhaps Obama has actually in his first eight months in office of his presidencey created the foundations of change.

Obama has changed the tone America uses to speak to the world in general and the Muslim world more specifically. His speech in Cairo, his first-week interview on al-Arabiya, and the extraordinarily conciliatory holiday video he sent to Iran are all substantial illustrations of that. Rather than using threatening and berate terms, his willingness to sit down and negotiate with Iran, has already produced tangible results.

When the president spoke to the media this morning he too expressed surprise with the honor and explained that he was humbled with the nod.

John McCain, told CNN, “I think all of us were surprised at the decision. But I think Americans are always pleased when their president is recognized by something on this order.”

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Clearly McCain hadn’t read RedState.com, which immediately went to the race card when explaining how the Nobel could go to the president. “I did not realize the Nobel Peace Prize had an affirmative action quota for it,” Red State blogger Erik Erickson wrote, “but that is the only thing I can think of for this news.”

Perhaps Erickson hadn’t yet read the explanation from Thorbjoern Jagland, the chairman of the Peace Prize committee, who never once mentioned the fact that Obama is half black. “It was because we would like to support what he is trying to achieve. It is a clear signal that we want to advocate the same as he has done.” Archbishop Desmond Tutu echoed that sentiment, “It is an award that speaks to the promise of President Obama’s message of hope.”

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