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...That's just one of the reasons the Nobel Committee's decision to award this year's Peace Prize to Barack Obama is such a stunning surprise. Obama has the world's most powerful platform: the White House. And you don't need a megaphone when you're the U.S. President. You speak, and people listen. (See pictures of Obama's family tree...
...That's an understatement. As TIME's Mark Halperin notes on The Page, "Barack Obama's critics have long accused him of being a man of 'just words,' rather than concrete actions and accomplishments. The stunning decision to award him the Nobel Peace Prize for, basically, his rhetoric, will almost certainly infuriate his detractors in America more than it will delight his supporters." (Read Mark Halperin's take on The Page...
...pictures of Barack Obama's family tree...
...pictures of Barack Obama's college years...
...Twitter is a kind of global watercooler, the place to go if you want an instant take on anything from who should win American Idol to why on earth NASA aims to crash a probe into the moon, then the verdict is in. Within minutes of President Barack Obama's surprise Nobel Peace Prize win, the Twitterverse had greeted the news with a resounding raspberry. "What are the reasons for Obama to get Nobel Peace Prize?????" asked @ludmila_kh incredulously, if not grammatically. (See pictures of Obama overseas...