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Obama wins Nobel Peace PrizeOctober 9, 2009 - 9:05PM


US President Barack Obama sensationally won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday less than a year after he took office with the jury hailing his "extraordinary" diplomatic efforts on the international stage.

"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," the Nobel jury said in making the stunning announcement.

The committee attached "special importance to Obama's vision and work for a world without nuclear weapons" and said he had created "a new climate in international politics".

Obama, 48, was sworn into office on January 20, and has since then sought to restore US standing in the world after widespread criticism over the war in Iraq and the world superpower's attitude to efforts to control global warming.

The first black American president has brought the Israeli and Palestinian leaders together for a meeting, approved new diplomatic engagement with Iran, Myanmar and North Korea and signalled a new willingness to attack growing environmental problems.

Obama went to Cairo to make a major speech on relations with the Muslim world, badly tarnished by President George Bush's order to invade Iraq.

At the United Nations, he has launched an initiative to reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the world.

The first black American president was honoured "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples", the head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee Thorbjoern Jagland said.

The committee hailed his efforts at dialogue, highlighting their importance in resolving major issues of today, such as disarmament, climate and human rights.

"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," it said.

"Thanks to Obama's initiative, the US is now playing a more constructive role in meeting the great climatic changes the world is confronting," it said, adding: "Democracy and human rights are to be strengthened."

The 2008 Peace Prize winner Martti Ahtisaari, the former Finnish president and veteran troubleshooter in international conflicts, said the award should "encourage" Obama's Middle East peace efforts.

"We do not yet have a peace in the Middle East... this time it it was very clear that they wanted to encourage Obama to move on these issues," Ahtisaari told CNN television.

"This is a clear encouragement to do something on this issue, I wish him good luck."

The Nobel award will raise expectations for Obama to stand up for human rights around the world, exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer said.

Kadeer, who has often been tipped for the prestigious prize for her fight on behalf of the Chinese minority group, told AFP: "I am very happy that he got it. Now he has to do something with the award. It raises expectations on him to stand up for oppressed nations."

Obama, who five years ago was a virtual political unknown, is the third US president in office to win the coveted award, after Theodore Roosevelt in 1906 and Woodrow Wilson in 1919.

Former US president Jimmy Carter won the prize in 2002.

Last year, the Peace Prize, which comprises a gold medal, a diploma and a cheque worth 10 million Swedish kronor ($1.57 million), went to Finnish mediator and former president Martti Ahtisaari.

The formal prize ceremony will take place in Oslo on December 10, the anniversary of the death of in 1896 of the prize's creator, Swedish industrialist and inventor of dynamite Alfred Nobel.

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http://www.smh.com.au/world/obama-wins-nobel-peace-prize-20091009-gqp0.html
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But he can talk good and that, so he must be a
mental giant. Don't you read the news?
 

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He has not even brought forward one legislation
 

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From my understanding, he won it for giving his vision and saying what he wants to do

Anyone can say "I want peace in the Middle East" or "No more Nukes" or "Lets stop Climate Change"

But actually doing it is a completely different thing
 

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Like many I was sucked in by the great orator's words of wisdom but he has failed big time on actually producing the goods.
 

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"Thanks to Obama's initiative, the US is now playing a more constructive role in meeting the great climatic changes the world is confronting," it said, adding: "Democracy and human rights are to be strengthened."

What a load of **** climate change is. It makes me sick when all these morons go on about it as if we can do anything to stop what nature has been doing for millions of years.
 

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No, the question is, how the fk would we know what he's done?
 

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Im happy being white

Not jealous

Life is so easy as white man, never any racism or trouble getting a job etc
 

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Everyone in this thread is Jeeeeeaaaalllllouuuuussss.
People are so quick to shoot others down, but the reality is, he's on the other side of the world and doing things we have absolutely no idea about.

People rely on the media to produce all the goods on Obama, but since when do the media focus their reporting on all the good stuff people do? Hardly ever. So unless you're by his side or in his Government, you wouldn't have any idea.

Honestly, people here shouldn't comment on what he has/has not done, because realistically, they haven't got a fken clue.
 
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Im happy being white

Not jealous

Life is so easy as white man, never any racism or trouble getting a job etc
I didnt say everyone was jealous of his skin colour. Everyone's jealous of his shiny award.
 

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The Nobel Peace prize has been a political tool for decades
 

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this is a crock of ****... obama is a phonie within and it wont be long til his true colours will be shown.
 

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Like many I was sucked in by the great orator's words of wisdom but he has failed big time on actually producing the goods.
Whats really funny is his early speeches were pretty much verbatim what George W said but with bigger fancier words.

The wisdom of Megadeth states
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DWoJBHibhM

If there's a new way
I'll be the first in line
But it had better work this time

(Peace Sells But Who's Buying if anyones interested)
 

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Good for him

The general message that I seem to be getting from him is that he wants the US to reconcile with the world and heal relations with the mid east.
 
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