Does Barack Obama deserve another Nobel prize?

Helping to dismantle the cold war nuke orgy was worth one... How about one for catalyzing a series of revolutions that resulted in the greatest exhalation of liberty in a generation?

Or maybe give it to Secretary Clinton...?

He doesn't deserve the first one.


If anyone deserves one it is Jullian Assange.

Obama got the Nobel more for what he represented than necessarily what he did, but he still did stuff. No, I would agree with you he was not the most deserving in the world. Howeva' I think he was a fair person to consider.

Assange, I honestly always got the sense that his motivation was more to undermine than to liberate. But that's based on just an impression. I don't really know how his work spread peace, liberty, and all that good stuff... It certainly made a bunch of governments really embarrassed, but..... Well, tell me what you think please.



MR

Part of why Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize was for efforts on nuclear disarmament/non-proliferation


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, 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. 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

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2009/press.html

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Someone else can take care of the rest. :hi:

I think Obama will have earned his if he gets a second term.

I think the most recent prize indicated the direction of future prizes - those unsung heroes on the ground who are actually making a huge difference.

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De-escalating wars and stockpiles of indiscriminate weapons around the world.

Though, come to think of it, Predator drones are a huge part of that.

Rather than send hundreds, or thousands, or hundreds of thousands, of people to their death in physical combat, use a Predator...... It winds up killing many less people, to prevent and control the loss of life that comes from open warfare.

Of course, it will be even better with better optics, and targeting, when we can take out just *one* person, remotely, with the same accuracy as a decent sniper at 50 yards.

The people are protesting his policies, among other things. Seriously, this is akin to the Repukes insisting that Reagan killed the USSR. Why are you intentionally starting flame wars?

The media--and an alarming number of "liberals" managed to turn it into a net negative for him.

He didn't even deserve the first one!!!!

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else he does.

in martial matters.

He deserves consideration for war crimes for covering for the previous administration and his own carrying their ball forward.

but because of the absolutely panicked responses within.

People are so freaked out by your question that they are thinking you are referring to OWS when you mention a "great exhalation of liberty." That by itself has made me lao.

But I tell you one thing -- I am willing to bet everything that I have in my pocket right now that you are BY NO MEANS the only person asking this question.

I appreciate your glowing words but I thought given "thank you NATO America" on streets in Libya and stuff, it would be understood I was writing about the Arab spring.

And why are people freaking about my question.

in constantly portraying him as something evil or undeserving. Many of us have long since stopped caring about the opinions of these people.

And Libya was not the only country that thanked the US after their uprisings.

Just to see all the heads explode.

Sorry, that's just the way I feel about it.

I'll just let that hang ....

A bit of an exaggeration, don't you think?

I want whatever it is that you're smoking. lol

This was a duplicate post. Still laughing though. lol