Six Words.

4 Responses to Six Words.

1. fpb says:

   October 9, 2009 at 6:13 pm

   In appropriate company with Woodrow “Ku-Klux-Klan” Wilson, Henry Kissinger, and Yassir Arafat, to mention only the best known. In his place, I’d have turned the damn thing down; it is both infamous and ill-omened.
   • JE says:

     October 9, 2009 at 10:18 pm

     Mother Teresa, Desmond Tutu and Martin Luther King jr. all saw fit to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, so there are at least some names that give the award some luster. Clearly, Obama did not expect or court it, but he had to accept it and he did so in the best possible way.
2. Anonymous says:

   October 10, 2009 at 1:11 pm

   I figure it was really given to the US for that sigh of relief from the rest of the world when Obama was elected. Kind of a stupid reason to hand out one of the most prestigious awards ever, but they’ve done stupid before.

   –Jeff Stehman
   • JE says:

     October 11, 2009 at 8:51 pm

     I think there’s something to this, but I also think he really transformed how the rest of the world looks at us. I found this link to a remarkable (pre-Nobel) study about America’s sudden rise in status… in an article by Glenn Greenwald, one of the guys on Obama’s left who is less than enthused about the award.

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