Carter Likes Nobel Pick, Taliban Not So Much

Nicolas Sarkozy says something odd about the world's hearts

By John Johnson, Newser Staff

Posted Oct 9, 2009 9:32 AM CDT

(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 year's peace prize as unjust."
Hamid Karzai: "His hard work and his new vision on global relations .. make him the appropriate recipient."
Mark Halperin, on Morning Joe: "I don't think he'll embrace this. Because there is no upside."

Desmond Tutu: It's a "wonderful recognition" of Obama's effort to reach out to the Arab world after years of hostility.
Nicolas Sarkozy: "It recognizes... the return of America to the hearts of the peoples of the world."
GOP chairman Michael Steele: "What has President Obama actually accomplished?"

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Shannonals

Oct 10, 2009 12:13 PM CDT

LOL, The right's comments are mirroring the comments by the GOP. Now that is shameful

Shannonals

Oct 10, 2009 12:12 PM CDT

Why does the Left bring up race kupacey? You serious aren't you? It's the right that makes everything racial, the left I would conclude simply expend on it far to much. Steele should have never been the chairman, and if McCain had a slim chance to have won the election, he would never have been selected.

Shannonals

Oct 10, 2009 12:10 PM CDT

Michael Steele is a GOP tool. The only reason he was selected as chairman was because the GOP knew people would think less of a Black chairman making negative comments aginast a Black President. What has Steele even done to prove himself worthy of being worthy of being the chairman anyway? seriously, he's not the senior member of the GOP Senate, and his postings prior to the nomination as chairman were nothing to brag about.

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Carter Likes Nobel Pick, Taliban Not So Much