Barack Obama: "I will accept this award as a call to action"
Friday, October 9, 2009
As he almost always does, Barack Obama sets exactly the right tone in announcing that he will accept the Nobel Peace prize "as a call to action...to confront the common challenges of the 21st century," not as "a recognition of my own accomplishments." Nice job by President Obama; now let's heed that call to action on crucial issues ranging from climate change to nuclear proliferation to Arab-Israeli peace...
