The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Committee has attached special importance to Obama's vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons.
Obama has as President created a new climate in international politics. Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play. Dialogue and negotiations are preferred as instruments for resolving even the most difficult international conflicts. The vision of a world free from nuclear arms has powerfully stimulated disarmament and arms control negotiations. Thanks to Obama's initiative, the USA is now playing a more constructive role in meeting the great climatic challenges the world is confronting. Democracy and human rights are to be strengthened.
Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future. His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population.
For 108 years, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has sought to stimulate precisely that international policy and those attitudes for which Obama is now the world's leading spokesman.(sic) The Committee endorses Obama's appeal that "Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges."
Agreed. He got it for his effort to create global sanctions declaring nuclear disarmament. However, it seems they forgot both British members of government and Gordon Brown, along with Russian political figures all attended the meetings to declare the new sanctions be put into place. Barrack Obama even turned down a few requested meetings to discuss issues like it-yet he still wins the Nobel Prize?
Yes, considering he hasn't spent much time in office, I think this was a pointless gesture. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure he'll do great things, but lets hope he doesn't start a war with another country. That would be true irony.
And hopefully our friggen congress doesn't give him the power to do that... Seeing as how its the congress' job to declare war, not pass a bill to give temporary power to the president, if that happens nObama and his terrorist aid will come get us... and we /still/ don't have his birth-certificate
Eff him, he didn't do anything to deserve it... The masses are being brain washed...
I bet your parents are talking through you right now, aren't they?
How can you brain wash all of those people? Do you think they televised some sort of swirling image and said in a slow and calm voice, "Obama should win the Nobel Peace Prize." If that us truly what you think, then I think that you are a racist idiot who knows nothing about world politics and never will.
