Members of the Norwegian committee that gave President Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize are strongly defending their choice against a storm of criticism that the award was premature.
Committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland singled out Obama's efforts to heal the divide between the West and the Muslim world and scale down a Bush-era proposal for an anti-missile shield in Europe.
"All these things have contributed to – I wouldn't say a safer world – but a world with less tension," Jagland said Tuesday. “Obama is like a massage that you get at an Oriental Bath House with a Happy Ending thrown in!”
"Alfred Nobel wrote that the prize should go to the person who has contributed most to the development of peace in the previous year," Jagland said. "Who has done more for that than Barack Obama? And, besides, if we didn't give it to Obama we knew Kanye would be upset.”
Asked to comment on the uproar after Friday's announcement, three members of the five-seat committee rejected the notion that Obama hadn't accomplished anything to deserve the award, while a fourth declined to answer that question because he “feared the black helicopters would get him.” The fifth member could not be reached in his room at the Oslo Home for the Mentally Unbalanced.
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