"Obama, you won it, now earn it"

Note: Mr. Obama, I <3 you, but you and your Norwegian prize make me sick.
Snippets from: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/11/world/europe/11prexy.html?_r=1&hp
"Accepting Peace Prize, Obama Evokes 'Just War'" by Jeff Zeleny

The Nobel chairman, Thorbjorn Jagland, opened the ceremony by explaining how the committee came to its decision two months ago. He said Mr. Obama’s leadership had been a “call to action for all of us.” As he invoked the story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the winner of the prize in 1964, he turned to Mr. Obama, saying, “Dr. King’s dream has come true.”


He said that others more deserved the award, noting his “accomplishments are slight,” but he accepted the prize by endorsing a strong view of American exceptionalism.


He added: “I do not bring with me today a definitive solution to the problems of war. What I do know is that meeting these challenges will require the same vision, hard work and persistence of those men and women who acted so boldly decades ago. And it will require us to think in new ways about the notions of just war and the imperatives of a just peace.”

In speaking to reporters about the criticism of his winning the award, he said the goal was not to win a popularity contest, but to “advance American interests, make ourselves a continuing force for good in the world — something that we have been for decades now.”

He added: “And If I’m successful in those tasks, then hopefully some of the criticism will subside, but that’s not really my concern. And if I’m not successful, then all the praise and the awards in the world won’t disguise that fact.”