By Alister Bull WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Wednesday named billionaire Warren Buffett a winner of the 2010 Medal of Freedom, along with former President George H.W. Bush and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. "These outstanding honorees come from a broad range of backgrounds and they've excelled in a broad range of fields, but all of them have lived extraordinary lives that have inspired us," Obama said in a statement. The president picked a total of 15 people for the 2010 award, the highest U.S. civilian honor, which will be presented at a White House ceremony early next year. In addition to Bush, other politicians named by Obama were civil rights champion Congressman John Lewis and Merkel, the first woman and first East German to serve as Chancellor of a unified Germany. The honor to Bush, the 41st U.S. president and a Republican, could be seen as a bipartisan gesture by Democrat Obama. Writer Maya Angelou, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and murdered aid worker Doctor Tom...
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