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Oct 9, 2009 2:22 PM CDT

A Few Other Nobel Candidates

Tireless campaigners for human rights, long-suffering Chinese dissidents among those passed over

(Newser) - President Obama himself said he was not sure he deserved to win the Nobel Peace Prize, and the Weekly Standard seems to agree. Mary Katherine Ham invites you to consider some of the luminaries who were passed over:

Sima Samar: A Afghan women’s rights activist who kept her schools—

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Limbaugh: Obama Nobel
a Bid to 'Emasculate' US

Oct 9, 2009 11:28 AM CDT

Limbaugh: Obama Nobel a Bid to 'Emasculate' US

Rush, fellow conservatives jump all over award

(Newser) - Rush Limbaugh doesn’t think the Nobel committee members were trying to honor President Obama—he thinks they’re trying to “emasculate" the United States. “With this ‘award’ the elites of the world are urging Obama, THE MAN OF PEACE, to not do the surge in Afghanistan,...

Obama: I'm 'Surprised and
Deeply Humbled' by Nobel

UPDATED

Oct 9, 2009 10:42 AM CDT

Obama: I'm 'Surprised and Deeply Humbled' by Nobel

President will accept the honor as a 'call to action'

(Newser) - A beaming President Obama says he's honored to win the Nobel Peace Prize but isn't sure he's done enough to earn it. Appearing in the Rose Garden today, Obama acknowledged he was "both surprised and deeply humbled" to win the award. He said he does not "view it...

Carter Likes Nobel Pick,
Taliban Not So Much

nobel reaction

Oct 9, 2009 9:32 AM CDT

Carter Likes Nobel Pick, Taliban Not So Much

Nicolas Sarkozy says something odd about the world's hearts

(Newser) - Not everybody thinks Barack Obama's Nobel prize is a weird choice. Jimmy Carter, who won it himself in 2002, calls it a "bold statement of international support for his vision and commitment." More reaction:

Taliban spokesman: "He has done nothing for peace in Afghanistan. We condemn this

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Be Smart,
Barack:
Turn Down
the Prize

OPINION

Oct 9, 2009 7:45 AM CDT

Be Smart, Barack: Turn Down the Prize

Obama accepting the Nobel will only reinforce right's caricatures

(Newser) - Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Prize laureate? "They could have awarded it to Kylie Minogue and I wouldn’t have been half as surprised," writes Ben Brogan of the Telegraph, who thinks the "bunch of Scandinavian worthies" have made a silly, self-satisfied choice. Yet while the Norwegians have...

Obama Win
Mystifies Both
Admirers and
Detractors

NOBEL PRIZE REACTION

Oct 9, 2009 6:29 AM CDT

Obama Win Mystifies Both Admirers and Detractors

What was the committee thinking, given the challenges in Afghanistan and Iraq?

(Newser) - Barack Obama was in office for just two weeks when the deadline for this year's Nobel Peace Prize passed, yet the first-term president has already got himself the world's most famous award. Detractors and admirers are both scratching their heads.

"This is completely bizarre," writes Wall Street Journal

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Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize

UPDATED

Oct 9, 2009 4:04 AM CDT

Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize

Committee cites president's commitment to disarmament, international institutions

(Newser) - President Barack Obama is the surprise winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize, which was awarded "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." The Norwegian Nobel committee said it attached particular importance to Obama's commitment to nuclear disarmament and his emphasis on the...