Sorry for your misunderstanding about the meaning of class. He's doing the only thing he can do to keep this from becoming a bigger incident than has already been made of it. The thing is, Obama does have a sensibility of how America appears to the rest of the world, unlike the cowboy, and has been trying to repair our damaged image. But then again, I'm pretty sure that if he had turned down the award, people like you would have criticized him for insulting the country.
I suppose when I wrote "Americans" your brain translated it to "republicans only". It doesn't help for you to put your words in my mouth. I've already said I don't think this is going to be good for Obama, even if for no other reason than giving the RW's more fodder for their smear machine.