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://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2009/press.html
What an embarrassment. They are giving the Kenyan Clown the Nobel Peace Prize on this basis? Good gracious, I would think then that John Lennon and Yoko Ono should have also received a string of them.
They should change the name to the Nobel (Affirmative Action) Peace Prize.
The majority of the world's pop are communist,atheist, jealous, or extremist mobs. Throw out E PLURIBUS, UNUM.
1- Dialogue and negotiations are preferred as instruments for resolving even the most difficult international conflicts. Sure they are. Try those out on al Qaeda and the Mullahs.
2- The vision of a world free from nuclear arms is simply that, a utopian vision. Nuclear arms cannot be un-invented. They are not going to disappear. We need to maintain the superior nuclear arms to promote world peace.
3- the great climatic challenges the world is confronting You pandering, pseudoscientific, anti-capitalist idiots. Just give the award to Gaia next time.
4- 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 The US president is not to "lead the world", nor is he to bow to the will of hostile, non-US values and attitudes.
5- a global response to global challenges Let's all bow to the UN and submit to the wise Global Leaders. Only if we submit to the Global Opinion can we be kosher Global Citizens and escape from the Global Climate Change and Global Naughtiness. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.
This has got to be satire.
[b]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.[/b]
Screw that. I’m not going to change my values in order to suit the population of the rest of the world. What this sentence tells me is that they’re giving the award to Obama for selling out.