Two key White House aides were both convinced they were being punked when they heard the news, (as reported ABC News' George Stephanopoulos) - with one responding:"It's not April 1, is it?"To put in perspective just how embarrassingly premature this award is:
In 1906, Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th U.S. President was the first sitting president to win the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in ending the bloody 1905 war between two of the world's great powers, Japan and Russia. The result was the Treaty of Portsmouth signed by Russia and Japan on Sept. 5, 1905, at Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Woodrow Wilson was the second sitting President to win the Nobel Peace Prize award in 1919 in recognition of his Fourteen Points Program and work in achieving inclusion of the Covenant of the League of Nations in the 1919 Treaty of Versailles at the end of World War I. He created a structure that's still being used in present day international politics.
Jimmy Carter did win - but not as a sitting President. He won for what the Nobel prize committee said were "his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development".
For those not yet aware, Obama has won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize: "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." Have the applicants become so unspectacular and dull that Teddy Roosevelt ENDS A WAR, Wilson compiles a program for international relations that's still in place today (9 decades later) , and Jimmy Carter devotes his retired life to community service ... but Barack Obama simply takes office and they award him for being cooperative?
It's no secret I'm not a fan. Maybe now that he's been awarded something so prestigious, he'll finally step up. Saturday Night Live said it best:
President Obama reacted to his Nobel Peace Prize saying he accepted the award as "a call to action" ... That's great - just as a reminder, that's what the election was too.
~Seth Meyers
President Obama reacted to his Nobel Peace Prize saying he accepted the award as "a call to action" ... That's great - just as a reminder, that's what the election was too.
~Seth Meyers
If you object, sign the petition (published in the NY Times online): http://nobelpeace.eu/
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I think it is good you included the background because many people are unaware of who won and why previously. Obama is a disgrace to the nobel peace prize, but then again Al Gore won it too which I think was ridiculous, since he has made millions by his "going green".
I agree. There are many more points that could be made on this topic, but I chose to narrow my to the premature nature of it and compare it to the former Presidents also awarded the NPP. Thanks for your feedback!
The prize is - at this point in history - somewhat of a joke. It's at a point where it's merely liberal propaganda.
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