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In reply to the discussion: Swedish professor nominates Edward Snowden for the Nobel Peace Prize... [View all]Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)43. What a load of BS you've got there.
A big part of why they gave Obama the Nobel Prize was because of his efforts on nuclear disarmament/non-proliferationhe - Obama began that while he was still a U.S. Senator. Btw, President Obama donated ALL of the $1,000,000+ prize money to charity!
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://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2009/press.html
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://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2009/press.html
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Swedish professor nominates Edward Snowden for the Nobel Peace Prize... [View all]
Indi Guy
Jul 2013
OP
I think Obama's was more a thank you to America for safely removing Bush from office
yurbud
Jul 2013
#34
I was thinking yesterday about how heads were going to explode if this should happen.
Waiting For Everyman
Jul 2013
#3
What has Edward performed in promoting peace, absolutely nothing. He is not on he is not even
Thinkingabout
Jul 2013
#11
Surveillance will continue so what has Snowden done in his life to promote peace, sure wasn't
Thinkingabout
Jul 2013
#19
Are you referring to the belief the right to life? If you have a terrorist to blow you up it will
Thinkingabout
Jul 2013
#30
The biggest propaganda is coming from those backing Snowden and the cause, I don't fall for their
Thinkingabout
Jul 2013
#61
We do not share the same opinion. If you looked at your phone bill can you tell what the
Thinkingabout
Jul 2013
#81
now that would be a wonderful way to focus attention on the Surveillance State
Douglas Carpenter
Jul 2013
#15
Actually, getting NOMINATED for a Nobel Peace Prize isn't really all that impressive
Ken Burch
Jul 2013
#24
Aren't you more concerned with the anti-Americanism clearly demonstrated by the NSA at home...
Indi Guy
Jul 2013
#49