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Showing Original Post only (View all)Celebrating Obama's Nobel Peace Prize and his efforts in the spirit of the award. [View all]
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."
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."
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2009/press.html
Here's a great clip from December 2010: Rachel Maddow on securing loose nuclear materials
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/26315908/vp/40859004
MADDOW: If the Senate ratifies the START Treaty tomorrow, it caps an astonishing period in American political history.
For the last two years, Democrats have held the White House as well as big majorities in both the House and the Senate. Their record of achievement in that time, even in the face of unified, at times totally random Republican opposition, Republican opposition even do things Republicans had proposed in the first place, unified Republican opposition even to their own ideastheir track record even in the face of that is historic.
Whether you agree or disagree with what Democrats have done in the first two years of President Obamas presidency, they have freaking done it. The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act for women, expanding childrens health insurance, new hate crimes legislation that they said could not be done, tobacco regulation, credit card reform, student loan reform, the stimulus - which in addition to helping pull this country back from the brink of a Great Depression was also the largest tax cut ever, the largest investment in clean energy ever, the single largest investment in education in our country ever.
There was also a little thing you may have heard of called health reform. Also, Wall Street reform, the improvements to the new G.I. bill, the most expansive food safety bill since the 1930s.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/40898769/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/
For the last two years, Democrats have held the White House as well as big majorities in both the House and the Senate. Their record of achievement in that time, even in the face of unified, at times totally random Republican opposition, Republican opposition even do things Republicans had proposed in the first place, unified Republican opposition even to their own ideastheir track record even in the face of that is historic.
Whether you agree or disagree with what Democrats have done in the first two years of President Obamas presidency, they have freaking done it. The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act for women, expanding childrens health insurance, new hate crimes legislation that they said could not be done, tobacco regulation, credit card reform, student loan reform, the stimulus - which in addition to helping pull this country back from the brink of a Great Depression was also the largest tax cut ever, the largest investment in clean energy ever, the single largest investment in education in our country ever.
There was also a little thing you may have heard of called health reform. Also, Wall Street reform, the improvements to the new G.I. bill, the most expansive food safety bill since the 1930s.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/40898769/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/
Obama to Renew Drive for Cuts in Nuclear Arms
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/11/us/politics/obama-to-renew-drive-for-cuts-in-nuclear-arms.html
Neocons:
Obama's 'nuclear zero' rhetoric is dangerous
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obamas-nuclear-zero-rhetoric-is-dangerous--and-unrealistic/2013/03/29/917f2036-987b-11e2-b68f-dc5c4b47e519_story.html
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Celebrating Obama's Nobel Peace Prize and his efforts in the spirit of the award. [View all]
ProSense
Apr 2013
OP
Giving Obama the Noble Peace Prize, particularly that early in his presidency, always struck me
el_bryanto
Apr 2013
#1
Purposely aiming bombs at children: "It kind of opens our aperture."
woo me with science
Apr 2013
#34
"his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples"
rug
Apr 2013
#24
the op is about obama deserving a peace prize on work for disarming nukes
riverbendviewgal
Apr 2013
#92
What are you trying to rationalize? That Bush was a worse child killer? Plez rethink that. nm
rhett o rick
Apr 2013
#83
Are these children = to those who can and DO DIE for being on the "wrong" side of RKBA? nt
patrice
Apr 2013
#159
But the millions of people who could be affected by a nuclear confrontation
NYC Liberal
Apr 2013
#62
Based on consistent effort and leadership in this area you must think Dick Lugar deserves like five
TheKentuckian
Apr 2013
#31
In Afghanistan: U.S. Violating Human Rights of Children, Says U.N. Committee
woo me with science
Apr 2013
#16
Who on Earth says he is? PLEASE, some of us are trying to look at this as honestly as we can.
patrice
Apr 2013
#138
That's YOUR propagandist spin on OP responding to OFF-TOPIC counter-points. An objective
patrice
Apr 2013
#216
New US Drone Strike "Double-Taps" Indicate Possible War Crimes - Targeting First Responders
woo me with science
Apr 2013
#23
Chris Hayes: we face "stark choice between the war we are now fighting" and the law.
woo me with science
Apr 2013
#30
luckily there is a trash button and an ignore button. I'm going to push one of those buttons just
liberal_at_heart
Apr 2013
#59
The OP is about nuclear arms. Another poster has posted more times than the OP
Number23
Apr 2013
#202
Renditions do not take place in a federal court--they were arrested, not renditioned. nt
msanthrope
Apr 2013
#184
Chilling Legal Memo From Obama DOJ Justifies Assassination of US Citizens
woo me with science
Apr 2013
#60
Ex-Gitmo Prosecutor: Obama's Drone Surge as Damaging as Bush Torture Program
woo me with science
Apr 2013
#65
Obama Administration Won’t Show Secret Legal Opinions For Targeted Killings
woo me with science
Apr 2013
#69
March 15, 2013: Court deals blow to Obama drone secrecy: No more stonewalling
woo me with science
Apr 2013
#72
Your propaganda about "their" propaganda is based upon a 100% stereotype, i.e. a defnite
patrice
Apr 2013
#172
To most it is obvious that it was a bad move to award the President the peace prize.
NCTraveler
Apr 2013
#88
NAMING THE DEAD: Journalists Exposing Civilian Victims of US Drone Attacks
woo me with science
Apr 2013
#93
Are those people = to those who can and DO DIE for being on the "wrong" side of RKBA? nt
patrice
Apr 2013
#158
relatively meaningless stuff serving an obvious purpose to almost all responders here
stupidicus
Apr 2013
#105
Uh, the nuclear weapons part is secondary to "international diplomacy & cooperation between peoples"
progressoid
Apr 2013
#103
Thanks so much, ProSense!! I trashed the other thread. The ODSers are out of control!!
Liberal_Stalwart71
Apr 2013
#122
A refusal to honestly weigh ^this^ position relative to its opposite is evidence of PROPAGANDA.
patrice
Apr 2013
#140
You know why we never see that case? Because they CAN'T bring it AND they know they can't, because
patrice
Apr 2013
#154
Wondering why that Nobel is so obnoxious to those who would greet BLOOD for The Constitution with
patrice
Apr 2013
#143
Are those children = to those who DO, or could, DIE for being on the "wrong" side of RKBA?
patrice
Apr 2013
#156
It is not my logic. You appear to believe nukes are the only issue and other considerations
Dragonfli
Apr 2013
#187
I imagine it was me that replied dozens of times FAIL while pasting an article about nukes
Dragonfli
Apr 2013
#190
In all fairness it is hard to say if it is due to being victims of a cultish fanaticism as
Dragonfli
Apr 2013
#193
Took 30 posts (yes I had a minute and counted) but finally the person who became so... agitated
Number23
Apr 2013
#207