Along with Nobel, a Few Kind Words

(CBS)
"I think having a liberal president who goes to Oslo on behalf of a peace prize and reminds the committee that they would not be free, they wouldn't be able to have a peace prize, without having force. . . I thought in some ways it's a very historic speech," said Republican Newt Gingrich in an interview with Public Radio International.
Gingrich was joined by other conservative voices including Washington Post Columnist Michael Gerson, who said that although he remains critical of the award, the president gave an impressive and important speech.
"I think that Barack Obama has done very little to deserve the award, but I thought it was disarming that he essentially said that much at the beginning of the speech. That was the right way to begin these remarks," Gerson said. "It diffused a difficult issue and allowed him to go on and make a very serious set of remarks about Americas role in the world, about a just war, about the role of human rights in the building of a stable peace. These were all very important themes."







