DC> So... why then, did he win a Nobel Peace Prize?
 
DC> Are you SURE it wasn't just because he was the first black U.S.
DC> President?
 
This is the justification of the Norwegian Nobel Committee...
 
"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."
 
Noteworthy is that the deadline of nominations for the 2009 Peace Prize was
just 11 (eleven) days into Obama's presidency... Without getting into partisan
politics, a lot of people agree (and I with them) it should not have happened.
Therefor the awarding of the 2009 Peace Prize was not a consequence of
achievement but on the contrary it was a sign.
 
I underwrite the statement that Obama got the Peace Prize for nothing, while
Trump (who also is nominated again) will never get it for anything.
 
 \%/@rd

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