I shouldn't be surprised, but I am.
The time stamp on my blog entry, yesterday, is minutes after I read the news that Barack Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize. At that time, CNN hadn't even carried the news. I could only find a "Breaking News" banner at the top of the MSNBC homepage, and there still wasn't a story attached to the headline. Last night, I would realize that I had, apparently, read the news even before the President and Michelle Obama had been told.
My point is, I wrote my post before I had a chance to hear the world's reaction to his award. When the delayed reactions began pouring in shortly before I left for work (beginning with NBC's White House correspondent, Chuck Todd, on Morning Joe), I have to admit, I was a little stunned to see how stunned everyone else seemed to be.
I'd been telling Dan for months that I thought Barack Obama would win the Nobel Peace Prize. IMHO, he seemed the obvious choice--selecting him, a "no-brainer," really. In fact, I first mentioned it to my husband right after that speech at Cairo University.
Rarely has an world leader taken the initiative to speak, to share a message of hope and ripe with opportunity, in a message delivered to the world-at-large in "real time." And possibly because he is such a charismatic speaker, people around the world were actually listening... or at least I thought they were—until yesterday.
Now, I'm stunned to realize, most of them didn't get it after all. :/
~ Robin
The time stamp on my blog entry, yesterday, is minutes after I read the news that Barack Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize. At that time, CNN hadn't even carried the news. I could only find a "Breaking News" banner at the top of the MSNBC homepage, and there still wasn't a story attached to the headline. Last night, I would realize that I had, apparently, read the news even before the President and Michelle Obama had been told.
My point is, I wrote my post before I had a chance to hear the world's reaction to his award. When the delayed reactions began pouring in shortly before I left for work (beginning with NBC's White House correspondent, Chuck Todd, on Morning Joe), I have to admit, I was a little stunned to see how stunned everyone else seemed to be.
I'd been telling Dan for months that I thought Barack Obama would win the Nobel Peace Prize. IMHO, he seemed the obvious choice--selecting him, a "no-brainer," really. In fact, I first mentioned it to my husband right after that speech at Cairo University.
Rarely has an world leader taken the initiative to speak, to share a message of hope and ripe with opportunity, in a message delivered to the world-at-large in "real time." And possibly because he is such a charismatic speaker, people around the world were actually listening... or at least I thought they were—until yesterday.
Now, I'm stunned to realize, most of them didn't get it after all. :/
~ Robin
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