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Obama Wins ‘09 Nobel Peace Prize – The Same Week He Snubbed The Dalai Lama
By PoliJAM | October 9, 2009
Though he has accomplished little thus far ten months into his presidency, U.S. President Barack Obama has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.
The announcement of the award comes the same week that Barack Obama became the first U.S. President in 19-years to snub the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader well-known around the world for being a great man of peace.
The nomination of President Obama for the Nobel Peace Prize was shocking in itself in that he entered into office less than two weeks before the February 1st nomination deadline for the prize.
President Obama now becomes the third sitting U.S. president to win the award, after Theodore Roosevelt won the award in 1906 and Woodrow Wilson won in 1919.
Below is the press release issued by the Norwegian Nobel Committee:
Share ThisThe 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
Topics: Politics | 4 Comments »
October 9th, 2009 at 5:24 am
I can’t believe this doofus won. He has done nothing but make Iran and North Korea more belligerent than ever through his weakness! And now he is going to retreat from the Taliban. Ridiculous
October 9th, 2009 at 7:03 am
“Hope for a better future” now wins Nobel prizes. Whatever happened to actual results and achievements? Considering that the finalists were nominated by the February 1 deadline, 10 days of a presidency wins the Nobel prize? This has got to be the joke of the year!!!
October 9th, 2009 at 10:14 am
The Nobel Peace Prize is becoming a joke. Does anyone think there is a link between Obama and the UN Agenda 21? I just wonder.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:37 am
it’s the “everybody wins” mentality.