McClatchy: Obama's Nobel win is a reflection of hope

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Obama's Nobel win is a reflection of hope
By Steven Thomma | McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON -- Like his campaign, President Barack Obama's surprising win of the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday can be summed up by one word: hope.

It reflects not so much a record of accomplishment -- he has yet achieve any major foreign-policy successes -- as the yearning of the five-member prize committee that Obama is changing America's course in international affairs.

It hopes that he'll succeed in stopping the spread of nuclear weapons and lead the world in curbing global warming. More broadly, it wants to cheer him on to keep reaching out to the world toward international cooperation and collaboration and away from the unilateral approach they hated in his predecessor, George W. Bush.

"Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future," Nobel Chairman Thorbjoern Jagland said in announcing the award Friday.

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1. well the repugs do not like the word hope..