A spokesman for the State Department had this take on President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize, reports CNN:
"Certainly from our standpoint, this gives us a sense of momentum -- when the United States has accolades tossed its way, rather than shoes."
The comment was made by Assistant Secretary PJ Crowley, a spokesman for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Heh...clearly a reference to this classic moment, which pretty much sums up the Bush years and -- now that I think about it -- also explains a lot about why the committee came out of the blue and gave Obama the NPP. This is what the world has thought of us for the past eight years:
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