President Obama accepts Nobel Peace Prize

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can't ask for anything more eloquent...:)

has done more for diplomacy and peace in the world in his short time in office than Dub-yah did in eight years.

Congratulations, President Obama.

He would have done more than Bush did in 8 years.

We can't see!

While I am still confused why he got it, I offer my congratulations.

I bet Rush is peeing his pants doing his morning rant on this one!

- Shut down stupid European missile shield funding
- Attempting to close Gitmo
- Spoke to muslim world in Egypt
- Chaired UN nuclear conference

Nobel's Will: According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize is to be awarded "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses."

Source: http://nobelprize.org/alfred_nobel/will/short_testamente.html


Announcement from the Committee:

The Norwegian Nobel Committee

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2009

"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, theUSA 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. 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."

Oslo, October 9, 2009

"Fraternity Between Nations:" Obama Plans to Reach Out to Muslim World
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-06-03-obama-muslims_N.htm


"Abolition or reduction of standing armies:" This one is the trickiest. Obama Still Plans to withdraw from Iraq, but Afghanistan is another issue.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,566841,00.html

But it also fits with "Holding and Promotion of Peace Congresses"
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33001551/ns/world_news-united_nations/
U.N. Approves Resolution To Rid World Of Nukes, Obama Presides

That last one is a big deal, and it was a campaign promise. Reduction of the standing army of nuclear weapons. A big deal.

All of this following the disastrous war-mongering actions of George W. Bush and Richard Cheney.

The Nobel Peace Prize has always been awarded based on what the committee hopes to accomplish by awarding it.