Mike Grunwald at Time magazine gets it right: Today's Nobel to President Obama is the 89th Nobel Prize for Peace, as well as the fourth Nobel Prize for Not Being George W. Bush. He warns:
"This ill-concealed crusade is clearly damaging the prestige of the Nobel; the winners are supposed to be honored for their achievements, not for symbolizing the committee's grudges. And it probably won't do Obama any favors; he wants to be a leader, not a symbol, and honoring him for his rhetoric about a new American approach to diplomacy only reinforces the meme of his critics that he's merely a man of rhetoric."
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1929433,00.html?xid=rss-topstories
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