President Obama ‘Humbled’ By Nobel Peace Prize, Says Work Just Started

He says he’s surprised and humbled…and that he doesn’t deserve to be in the company of some of the others who’ve won the Nobel Peace Prize. President Barack Obama was awarded the prize today, in what members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee said could be seen as an effort to build gloal support for his policies.

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Published: October 9, 2009

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WASHINGTON (AP) - He says he’s surprised and humbled…and that he doesn’t deserve to be in the company of some of the others who’ve won the Nobel Peace Prize.

President Barack Obama was awarded the prize today, in what members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee said could be seen as an effort to build gloal support for his policies.

Appearing in the Rose Garden Friday, Obama said he does not “view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments,“ but rather as a recognition of goals he has set for the United States and the world.

Obama’s name had been mentioned as a possible recipient, but many Nobel watchers believed it was too soon into his presidency. The Norwegian Nobel Committee saw it differently, saying “Obama is now the world’s leading spokesman” for the kind of international diplomacy it has sought to stimulate.

It cited Obama’s initiatives to rid the world of nuclear weapons, ease tensions with the Muslim world and stress diplomacy and cooperation over unilateralism.