It was obvious President Obama wishes that the Nobel committee hadn’t put him in this spot. But he should have been brave enough to tell it no. Full Story »
Posted by Subramanya Sastry - via Dan Kennedy, AllTop, New York Times (Most Emailed), New York Times (Opinion), Opinion Source
Thought provoking. Douthat does cover his bases pretty well. But I'm not convinced by his argument. Strategically, one has to think about how this plays domestically. And I think conservatives would have been all over him had he not accepted. They would have questioned him as America hating. This was a little bit of a no win of Obama, and all things being equal I think he kept it real (rather than falsely modest).
