So what exactly has Obama done to win the Nobel peace prize?

Other major contender of the Nobel Peace prize is Bill Gates and I think Bill Gates has been far more pro-active in this area than Barrack Obama.





What the hell has Barrack Obama done to contribute to world peace, he's started having slightly friendlier talks with the Russians - that's about it. The world is pretty much still the same a year on into his presidency.





It makes an absolute mockery of the Nobel Price for him to receive it. I think it's just Sweden jumping on the let's all worship Obama unconditionally band-wagon.|||Putting American's right wing fascist Republicans in their place.|||First off, remember that the votes for the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize among the Nobel Committee closed only TWO WEEKS after Obama's election so anyone saying he was chosen because of things he has done any time more recent than then is wrong.





The Nobel Committee said that they picked him solely because he has changed the tone of the world and that he has great potential for promoting peace. In my opinion this is a disgrace to the Nobel Peace Prize, a person should not be chosen because of potential but because of accomplishments.





P.S. The way half of the world worships Obama as if he is the next Jesus makes me want to rip my hair out.|||...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.





...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."|||Obama's election and foreign policy moves caused a dramatic improvement in the image of the U.S. around the world. A 25-nation poll of 27,000 people released in July by the Pew Global Attitudes Project found double-digit boosts to the percentage of people viewing the U.S. favorably in countries around the world. That indicator had plunged across the world under President George W. Bush.





From: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091009/ap_o鈥?/a>





There are lots of articles out there, maybe you should read a little.|||I vote for this as best answer:


http://www.splicd.com/GMJuEOaF84o/152/66鈥?/a>|||WHAT A SHAME THAT HIS OWN COUNTRY CANT EVEN RECOGNIZED HIM FOR HIS EFFORTS. ITS JUST LIKE YOU PEOPLE TO FIND SOMETHING NEGATIVE IN ANYTHING THAT IS POSITIVE!|||I always figured that if Socialist Europe did not like us, we must be doing the right thing and now they LOVE us.





Always remember they awarded the prize to Yassar Arafat and Jimmy Carter|||He represents a change in attitude from war to peace. Republicans can not understand.|||He wrote a book.....that's gotta count for something.|||He deserves it. This shows why...





http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/鈥?/a>





I understand it's hard to hear anything positive about Obama with all the screaming from the right, meant to distract you from the good things Obama does. Our media totally sucks.





"A 25-nation poll of 27,000 people released in July by the Pew Global Attitudes Project found double-digit boosts to the percentage of people viewing the U.S. favorably in countries around the world. That indicator had plunged across the world under President George W. Bush."





Obama has taken a much more multilateral approach than Bush did in the last eight years, and the world applauds it. Peace talks and negotiations with North Korea, Iran, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Russia. Outreach to the Muslim world. Drawing down in Iraq. Bringing Russia to the table over Iran (and against China) was HUGE. Nuclear disarmament talks. Strengthening the US role in combatting climate change.





Thousands of nominations were made right after Obama took office and his name was thrown into the hat, yes. But the talks and the decision about who was to win the prize *just took place*.





Obama is giving the money to charity, btw.





http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/09鈥?/a>|||The Norwegians who gave him the prize already answered your question:





"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" - NobelPrize.org|||"Compare this to Greg Mortenson, nominated for the prize by some members of Congress, who the bookies gave 20-to-1 odds of winning. Son of a missionary, a former army Medic and mountaineer, he has made it his mission to build schools for girls in places where opium dealers and tribal warlords kill people for trying. His Central Asia Institute has built more than 130 schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan - a mission which has, along the way, inspired millions of people to view the protection and education of girls as a key to peace and prosperity and progress.





Sometimes the words come first. Sometimes, it's better to let actions speak for themselves."





This is from Nancy Gibbs' article "Obama's Nobel: The Last Thing He Needs" from Time.





Do you honestly believe that our President, who has not been tested yet on the international or domestic stage and has not really accomplished anything as president, deserves the Nobel Prize over Greg Mortenson because people like him? Last I checked the PEACE prize was not a popularity contest.