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many of the nation's top news anchors and editors are sending emails back and forth

What a bunch of pantywaist cowards including Steve Clemons.

Since when are 'reporters' suppose to give the President and his cabinet advice to keep them from screwing up, AGAIN. I thought 'the One' was the smartest guy on the planet. I know because these 'reporters' told me so./s

Steve Clemons:

Obama's 'unclenched fist' won the prize

"Nobel Committee's decision to make Obama the only sitting U.S. president since Woodrow Wilson to receive the Nobel Peace Prize shows the committee's clear-headed assessment that Obama's "unclenched fist" approach to dealing with the world's most thuggish leaders has had a constructive, systemic impact on the world's expectations of itself."

"Obama has helped citizens all around the world -- including in the United States -- to want a world beyond the mess we have today in the Middle East and South Asia. They want a world where America is benign and positive, and where other leaders help in supporting the struggles of their people for better lives rather than securing themselves through crude power."

"Obama's posture and rhetoric have reversed the collapse of hope and trust that the world's citizens had in America and stopped the degradation of America's image during the tenure of George W. Bush and Richard Cheney."

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Steve Clemons

His great friend, Joshua Micah Marshall of talkingpointsmemo.com

Steven Clemons directs the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation, which aims to promote a new American internationalism.

Publisher of the political blog The Washington Note, Mr. Clemons is a long-term policy practitioner and entrepreneur in Washington, D.C. He has served as Executive Vice President of the Economic Strategy Institute, Senior Policy Advisor on Economic and International Affairs to Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM).

Set up a Team B with diverse political and national security observers like Tom Daschle, John Podesta, Brent Scowcroft, Arianna Huffington, Fareed Zakaria, Katrina vanden Heuvel, John Harris, James Fallows, Chuck Hagel, Strobe Talbott, James Baker, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and others to give you a no-nonsense picture of what is going on

Oh, good grief. What's this guy been smoking?