Posted January 19, 2010 2:10 PM
by Mark Silva
President Barack Obama has pledged to donate the proceeds from his Nobel Prize for Peace to charitable causes.
But the president hasn't decided yet what to do with the money.
The prize bestowed upon the president last year -- Obama was only the third sitting American president to win it -- comes with $1.6 million.
"He hasn't received any money yet,'' White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said today.
Comments
I'm not sure that the prize money is his to donate since he won the prize as a sitting President of the United States.
I think he ought to defer to Congress on what to do with the Nobel Prize money. Of course a noted Constitutional Law professor should know this much.
Posted by: Chris | January 19, 2010 3:01 PM
I think he should donate to his homeless bro in Kenya; might be the only thing he ever gives him.
Posted by: mj hawkeye | January 19, 2010 7:06 PM