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.
I'm coming up short on what the efforts were that Obama employed to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. Was it the continuation of the war in Iraq? the decision to continue imprisoning foreign peoples in gitmo? Maybe it was the drone attacks on Pakistani villages rumored to harbor Bin Laden? Or I guess it could even have been the intentional violations of the Arms Export Act by allowing massive amounts of US bought weapons to be delivered in to the hands of mexican drug cartels. Hey, at least it wasn't nuclear weapons, so that must be his qualifying factor here.
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.
See the above statement by me for this one also.
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.
Given this statement above, I can only assume that the majority of our population in this country stand behind and approve of Obamas job as president........hmmm, maybe we need to re-evaluate that. I guess we should look to the outside world and see how their attitude is towards the US and our president.......hmmm, maybe we need to re-evaluate that as well.
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."
Is it a nobel peace prize qualification that one should continue to bankrupt the world causing more poverty and hardship for the majority of the population????? If it is, then I think we may have found the one qualification he possesses for the peace prize. what say you?
