Should Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize?

Por considerar oportuna, pertinente e lícita a dúvida formulada, passo, a propósito, um excerto de E.J. Dionne hoje publicado no site do The Washington Post, titulado: "A double-edged prize"
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I truly hate to say this, but I wish the Nobel Committee had held off on giving President Obama the Nobel Peace Prize. Of course I am happy Obama has improved our country’s standing in the world and I do believe his approach to other nations is a big improvement on the eight years that came before him. That’s clearly the message the Nobel Committee was sending.

But our domestic politics are so rancid that I can imagine Obama’s foes using this against him, not only by emphasizing that he still has much to get done but also by trying to argue -- remember John McCain’s “He’s the biggest celebrity in the world” ads? – that we should be suspicious of Obama precisely because he is so popular overseas.

If some of Obama’s critics could cheer Chicago losing the Olympics, we know what they will do with this. Who’d have thought that the administration would have to do a strange version of damage control on what should be a happy moment for the president? (By the way, Obama was smart to say: “I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who've been honored by this prize.”) But maybe I’m being too gloomy, and I would love to be talked out of this view. What do you think?

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