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  • Nobel jury speaks out in defense of Obama prize

    10/14/2009 2:24:41 AM PDT · by myknowledge · 58 replies · 1,927+ views
    The Associated Press (hosted on Google) ^ | October 14, 2009 | Ian MacDougall and Karl Ritter
    OSLO — One judge noted with surprise that President Barack Obama "didn't look particularly happy" at being named the Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Another marveled at how critics could be so patronizing. In a rare public defense of a process normally shrouded in secrecy, four of the Nobel jury's five judges spoke out Tuesday about a selection they said was both merited and unanimous. To those who say a Nobel is too much too soon in Obama's young presidency, "We simply disagree ... He got the prize for what he has done," committee chairman Thorbjorn Jagland told The Associated Press...