How would you characterize our President? President or Celebrity? He's Time Magazines 2008 Person of the Year, just won the Nobel Peace Prize, and probably has spent more time on primetime network TV than American Idol...
I have nothing against him and I'm not suggesting that he is responsible for all the hype.. It just concerns me that his pop icon status may diminish the respect of the position he holds..
A beaming President Barack Obama said Friday he was both honored and humbled to win the Nobel Peace Prize and would accept it as a "call to action" to work with other nations to solve the world's most pressing problems.
Obama told reporters in the White House Rose Garden that he wasn't sure he had done enough to earn the award, or deserved to be in the company of the "transformative figures" who had won it before him.
But, he said, "I will accept this award as a call to action, a call for all nations to confront the challenges of the 21st century."
Obama, 48, is the third U.S. president to win the prize while in office, after Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Former President Jimmy Carter won the prize in 2002, more than two decades after he left office.
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