Nobel Prize for Obama Backfires
If the Norwegian Nobel Committee thought it was bolstering President Barack Obama�s prestige in the world by awarding him the 2009 Peace Prize, it was wrong.
From the liberal Huffington Post and Daily Kos to the Washington Post and the Times of London, opinion makers have denounced the decision as a joke, spotlighting the fact that to date Obama has only hot air to show for his efforts at world peace.
“Rarely has an award had such an obvious political and partisan intent,� the Times of London said. �It was clearly seen by the Norwegian Nobel Committee as a way of expressing European gratitude for an end to the Bush administration. The prize risks looking preposterous in its claims, patronizing in its intentions, and demeaning in its attempt to build up a man who has barely begun the period in office, let alone achieved any tangible outcome for peace.�
Nobel Prize for Obama Backfires.
