Obama says he’ll accept Nobel as ‘call to action’
Oct 9 12:32 PM US/Eastern
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) – A beaming President Barack Obama said Friday he was both honored and humbled to win the Nobel Peace Prize and would accept it as a “call to action” to work with other nations to solve the world’s most pressing problems.

Obama told reporters in the White House Rose Garden that he wasn’t sure he had done enough to earn the award, or deserved to be in the company of the “transformative figures” who had won it before him.

But, he said, “I will accept this award as a call to action, a call for all nations to confront the challenges of the 21st century.”

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Barack Obama has done nothing when the Nobel Peace Prize deadline was close. He was Senator for four years before he became President. The Nobel Peace Prize was for science, not politics. The last two Presidents that got it were Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Roosevelt was an activist President. Wilson formed the League of Nations, a forerunner of the modern day United Nations (UN). He did not support suffrage and only did so because of his wife. Also, he was a racist on top of it. Yasser Arafat also got the Nobel Peace Prize and his a mass killer and terrorist. The Nobel Peace Prize lost its credibility.

This English Newspaper got it right:

Comment: absurd decision on Obama makes a mockery of the Nobel peace prize
Michael Binyon
Times Online
October 9, 2009

The award of this year’s Nobel peace prize to President Obama will be met with widespread incredulity, consternation in many capitals and probably deep embarrassment by the President himself.

Rarely has an award had such an obvious political and partisan intent. It was clearly seen by the Norwegian Nobel committee as a way of expressing European gratitude for an end to the Bush Administration, approval for the election of America’s first black president and hope that Washington will honour its promise to re-engage with the world.

Instead, the prize risks looking preposterous in its claims, patronising in its intentions and demeaning in its attempt to build up a man who has barely begun his period in office, let alone achieved any tangible outcome for peace.

The pretext for the prize was Mr Obama’s decision to “strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples”. Many people will point out that, while the President has indeed promised to “reset” relations with Russia and offer a fresh start to relations with the Muslim world, there is little so far to show for his fine words.

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Even Lech Walesa got it right. He rightfully deserved the Nobel Peace Prize for bringing down Communism in Poland.

Nobel Committee’s Decision Courts Controversy
By GUY CHAZAN and ALISTAIR MACDONALD
WSJ
OCTOBER 9, 2009, 12:16 P.M. ET

The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama, so early in his presidency, is bound to reignite criticism of the workings of the Nobel committee.

The deadline for nominations for the prize was Feb. 1 — two weeks after Mr. Obama was inaugurated.

“So soon? Too early. He has no contribution so far,” former Polish President Lech Walesa, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, said Friday. “He is still at an early stage.”

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Even the Taliban are condemning this. So much for reaching out to them.

Afghan Taliban condemn Obama’s winning Nobel
AP 9 October 2009, 07:41pm IST
Times of India

KABUL: A Taliban spokesman in Afghanistan has condemned President Barack Obama’s winning of the Nobel Peace Prize, saying the American
president had only escalated the war by sending more troops.

Qari Yousef Ahmadi accused Obama “of having the blood of the Afghan people on his hands.”

Ahmadi said in a telephone interview Friday from an undisclosed location: “Why are they giving this prize to Obama, who has sent more troops to Afghanistan, who is bombing and killing innocent people?”

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