Usually you don’t get this important award while being in office, so it may have come a but early. Ya there were exceptions made before, even for US presidents, but what has he done yet? Some speeches that may lead to positive changes, true, but why award him this year already?

I guess it’s about visions and a desire for change.

So does it devaluate prior winners?

Obama Posted:

I do not feel I deserve “to be in the company” of past winners.

Obama Posted:

I do not view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments, but rather as an affirmation of American leadership

After all, an interesting choice.