Mike Allen, author Politico's Playbook Daily Update, helpfully compiles some of the early reaction to the news that Barack Obama is the year's recipient of the Nobel Peach Prize:
The Taliban says:
“We have seen no change in his strategy for peace. He has done nothing for peace in Afghanistan,” Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told Agence France Presse. “We condemn the award of the Nobel Peace Prize for Obama,'” he said by telephone from an undisclosed location. “When Obama was elected president, we were hopeful he would keep his promise to bring change. But he brought no change, he has continued the same old strategy as (President George W.) Bush.”
France says:
'Obama's Nobel Peace Prize marks 'America's return to the hearts of the people of the world,' said French President Nicolas Sarkozy said..
Desmond Tutu says:
“It is a very imaginative and somewhat surprising choice. It is wonderful,” Tutu told reporters. 'He has had a very significant impact. It (his presidency) has changed the temperature and almost everybody feels a little more hopeful about the world.”