"OSLO (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for giving the world "hope for a better future" and striving for nuclear disarmament, in a surprise award that drew criticism as well as praise.
The decision to bestow one of the world's top accolades on a president less than nine months into his first term, who has yet to score a major foreign policy success, provoked gasps of surprise from journalists at the announcement in Oslo.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised Obama for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." The first African-American to hold his country's highest office, Obama has called for disarmament and worked to restart the stalled Middle East peace process since taking office in January. "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," the committee said in a citation."
Well they gave it to Carter and Gore and even Yasser Arafat , so this means what? You got it another NIGHT ON THE TOWN FOR THE OBAMAS!!
Let's see if he does the right thing with with the half a million prize money and donate it to the US treasury. Now THAT would be leading by example!
October 09, 2009
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For what?
Reply DeleteFor making sure that the world speaks Arabic, follows Molem practice, and the women are all slaves.
(Wonder how he will work that out with Michelle?)