Obama Accepts Nobel With ‘Great Humility’
President Barack Obama acknowledged the controversy surrounding the Nobel Peace Prize, in Which they received here on Thursday, acknowledging his own few accomplishments while delivering a robust defense of war and promising to use the prestigious prize to "Reach for the world that ought to be. "
A Wartime presidents honored for peace, Obama became the first sitting U.S. president in 90 years and the third ever to win the prize - some say prematurely.
"I receive this honor with deep gratitude and great humility," he said after accepting the prize. "It is an award that speaks to our highest aspirations - that for all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate. Our actions matter, and can bend history in the direction of justice."Read Morehttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34358659/ns/politics-white_house/?GT1=43001
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