Featured Articles — October 9, 2009

October 9, 2009 by Jonathan Movroydis | Filed Under Featured Articles 

Interesting Takes From Home And Abroad:

Obama Says He’s ‘Surprised and Humbled’ By Nobel Prize By Sheryl Stolberg and Walter Gibbs, The New York Times
President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” a stunning honor that came less than nine months after he made United States history by becoming the country’s first African-American president.

China’s New Cultural Revolution By Tony Blair, The Wall Street Journal
The world’s largest country has a long way to go, but there’s no question it’s changing for the better.

Young Hamlet’s Agony By Charles Krauthammer, The Washington Post
The genius of democracy is the rotation of power, which forces the opposition to be serious — particularly about things like war, about which until Jan. 20 of this year Democrats were decidedly unserious.

Obama’s Nobel Farce By Peter Beinart, The Daily Beast
President Obama said on Friday morning he was “most surprised and deeply humbled” by being awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. “To be honest, I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who have been honored by this prize,” he added. The Daily Beast’s Peter Beinart on why the award only aids the right’s arguments that Obamamania bears no relation to reality.

The Real Trouble with Afghanistan and Obama By Thomas P.M. Barnett, Esquire
Underneath all this week’s he-said/she-said over the war’s future lies a self-inflicted wound: Our young president has lost sight of what matters in the military conflict that will define him, and lost sight of it to another Boomer-era vice president’s guilty conscience.

States of Personal Privilege By Kimberley Strassel, The Wall Street Journal
Senators aren’t counting on reform savings when it comes to their constituents.

The Missing Debate on Afghanistan By Peggy Noonan, The Wall Street Journal
The president and Congress, distracted, have left a void.

I’ve changed my mind about David Cameron – he has what it takes, By Jeff Randall, The Daily Telegraph
Jeff Randall believes that David Cameron was right to abandon feelgood sound bites in his speech to the Tory Conference in favour of tackling harsh reality

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