GREAT QUOTE - AT 8:27 A.M. ET:  From Byron York, in the Washington Examiner:

In its announcement that President Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize this morning, the Nobel committee praised Obama for creating a "new climate" in the world in which "multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position" -- a clear reference to the Bush presidency. Then the committee praised Obama for a diplomacy "founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population" -- a clear reference to the committee's belief, or hope, that Obama does not believe in the strong assertion of specifically American values and attitudes.

COMMENT:  Good statement.  And, of course, we wonder how the Nobel committee assesses attitudes "that are shared by the majority of the world's population"?    How do you measure that, when much of the world is "served" by a controlled press?  What they really mean is the attitudes of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, which considers itself above the world.

October 9, 2009