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...former high-level presidential advisers took the stage at the John F. Kennedy forum yesterday, reflecting on lessons learned while working in the White House and looking to the present day to offer guidance for President Barack Obama??s administration...
Regardless of who is actually getting the brunt of it, the grumblings over Obama??s Nobel Prize are at best unproductive and at worst damaging to the “efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples” that the award purported to recognize...
...confusion upon hearing that Obama had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize so early in his presidential term. Given that Obama has still not produced many concrete diplomatic accomplishments in the few short months he has been in office, the award seems strangely premature, bestowed as an endorsement of Obama??s vision rather than his actions. Although none of this provides grounds for faulting Obama himself, who clearly didn’t submit his own nomination, the award has left even strong Obama supporters feeling bitter that the president is too highly regarded...
...Obama??s failures are also our failures, especially those of us who worked so hard to get him elected. Far too many of us equated the man with the movement, as if electing a strong candidate was the same thing as effecting social change. And far too many of us have rested on our laurels since the election, satisfied by a job well done and convinced that Obama would make the world right again. But in these troubled times, the man needs his movement back, to ensure that the change we believed in produces the world we want...
Timothy P. McCarthy ’93 is Director of the Human Rights and Social Movements Program at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He was a founding member of Barack Obama??s National LGBT Leadership Council...