Obama and the Nobel Peace Prize

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It's always nice to see someone from your country win the Nobel Prize, especially if it is your leader. I'm glad he said in one speech that he doesn't deserve it. I'm also glad he is accepting it even though he feels he doesn't deserve it. He didn't campaign for it - the committee bestowed it to him without his knowledge. To decline it would be an insult to the committee and telling them that they don't know what they are doing (which they aren't in this case). All that said, I'm kind of embarrassed as an American that he did receive the prize. Basically, he received the prize for winning the election and following George Bush. He won the prize based on his intentions, not his actions - and that is wrong. A lot of people have good intentions - its the accomplishments that should have been looked at, and except that many other nations view us more favorably than they did this time last year - very little has changed as far as our foreign policy. If anything, the prize is premature. Who knows, maybe he will be a ghreat statesman. Kudos for sending Bill Clinton to North Korea to negotiate freedom for the two Asian-American journalists, and kudos for having Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State who brokered a historic agreement between Armenia and Turkey, but if Obama deserves it for his intention of a global community, then George Bush deserved it for intending to bring democracy to non-democratic states.