He will always have his detractors, and even today, conservative talk show hosts ask their audiences if he is deserving, but today, 45 years after Dr. Martin Luther King was similarly honored, President Obama is awarded The Nobel Prize for Peace:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/10/09/nobel.peace.prize/index.html
Is it true his nomination was entered last February 1? He had done much to unite and foment inclusion by then. And what matter is it whether a columnist or a talk show listener feels he deserves it, the committee neither asked them, nor will they revoke the Prize based upon U.S. public opinion. If that were the case, how do you think those who disagreed with MLK felt when he won?
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