WASHINGTON – The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama is “so very appropriate,” said New York Congressman Maurice Hinchey. Also supporting the decision is US Senator Charles Schumer from New York. All three are Democrats.

Hinchey said the President has promoted peace during his short tenure in the White House.

“What he has done, and I am sure he will continue to do, and he’s done it over the course of less than a year; what he has done has recognized the most important thing that we can do as human beings on this planet, is not to generate hostility, but to generate peace and goodness and affirmity with others,” he said.

Schumer said the award is good for America. Obama has made a number of “smart” foreign policy decisions.

“He let these unmanned drones loose in Pakistan. These are these unmanned vehicles that are about 10,000 feet above the ground. They wiped out 13 of the top 20 al Qaeda; that makes us safer,” he said. “On the diplomatic front, for the first time he’s gotten the Russians to join in and say we have squeeze Iran economically so they don’t become nuclear.”