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It wasn't Barack Obama's fault that the Nobel Committee awarded him the Peace Prize, and it needs little imagination - looking at the first reactions to the honor in the U.S., which were hardly positive - to believe that the award was one that he would rather not have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Limits of Humility: How Obama Got It Right | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Winning the Nobel Peace Prize Could Hurt Obama | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

The five-member Nobel Committee in Norway said Obama was awarded the Peace Prize for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples" and highlighted Obama's promotion of nuclear disarmament. "Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Winning the Nobel Peace Prize Could Hurt Obama | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

That's all true. But Obama has been in office eight months. His ambitious plans for a peace deal in the Middle East and a nuclear-free world are just getting started. No doubt the Nobel Committee want this prize to add momentum to those plans. But the award also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Winning the Nobel Peace Prize Could Hurt Obama | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

A joke repeated - or, in Twitter parlance, RTd - in numerous tweets suggests one possible interpretation of the Nobel Committee's haste to garland the new laureate: " 'Did you hear Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize?' Answer: 'What for? For not being George W. Bush.' " @Fulmonster sees method in the Nobel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Twitterers Thought of Giving Obama the Prize | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

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