Barack Obama: "Oh, did I mention I won the Nobel prize?"

By Toby Harnden World
Last updated: October 13th, 2009
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The conventional wisdom is that President Barack Obama was embarrassed by the patently ludicrous award to him of the Nobel Peace Prize. And to be fair it did seem so when he accepted the honour (a term I use loosely) last Friday, quoting his daughter Malia as saying: “Daddy, you won the Nobel Peace Prize, and it is Bo’s birthday!â€