CBS News: Praise and controversy both at home and abroad for President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize

[Amerigo Vespucci]

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CBSNewsOnline
October 10, 2009

President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize has brought praise and controversy both at home and abroad. As Kimberly Dozier reports, is this award a great honor for the President, or an albatross?

[hmorehead]

1. I think everybody on both sides are making too much out of this.

[thefairone]

2. I see a lot of jealousy

Especially coming from the right-wing.

[bulloney]

3. All I've heard from ABC is the opposition to Obama receiving the Nobel.

And they make it sound like it's his fault. As far as I know, he didn't submit his name and make a big marketing campaign to receive the award. The Nobel committee--right or wrong--made its selection.

I'd like to know if that same committee had awarded the Peace Prize to Bush, what would Obama's haters say about the criteria used in selecting Bush?

And the notion that Reagan deserved a Nobel Peace Prize, the way CBS gerbil Chip whats-his-butt was whining at the WH press conference, is laughable. What did Reagan ever do to earn consideration of such an award given the fact his administration accelerated the arms race, orchestrated an arms-for-hostage deal, armed Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban and all of the crap we don't know about.