Be specific, not just "not Obama" - I'm quite aware republicans don't like him.
I know the Nobel Prize is occasionally a lifetime achievement award, but I would prefer to hear actions within the past year.|||I kind of like the idea of the King and Queen of Spain for their fight to uphold democracy, or perhaps Luis Inacio Lula da Silva (president of Brasil) for lifting 20 million people out of poverty and eradicating racism in brasil.
Frank: there is NO ONE in the world more deserving of that prize that the late supreme pontif John Paul II. he was too good to accept such honors and titles though. he was a living Saint and stood seperate from the judgements of secular conventions.|||Sima Samar for her ONGOING EFFORTS and ACCOMPLISHMENTS in achieving human rights for all people, especially women and children in the middle east. That is who everyone thought would receive the award.
Why actions in the past year? Are you saying Obama has acted in a way that has effectively created world peace this year? Obama was nominated for this award 2 weeks after taking office, had accomplished nothing then and still hasn't, except for the racial tensions he has created to to rise and maintain his success. He is all talk and as the Nobel committee said, he received the award based on what he could accomplish, not what he has accomplished. And it is not just Americans (I am not a Republican) who feel he is undeserving. Did you hear the reaction when the announcement was made in Norway?
Not that it really matters. Are you aware George Soros has financial connections to the Nobel committee? The award has no prestige as it once did because money is what it is all about...|||All of the opposition from Americans is disturbing. What is wrong with us that we have so little national pride and civility that we can't just take the award for what it is and be proud?
The World community is encouraged that we, the American people, had the courage to elect someone like Obama.
He is a welcome change on the world front.
Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency and 2005 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
"I cannot think of anyone today more deserving of this honour ... President Obama has provided outstanding leadership on moving towards a world free of nuclear weapons."|||Isn't it strange they would give him this award when the U.S has not been this divided since Viet Nam and the congress and senate are at an all time low approval rating of 21 percent because they can't work together and he cant' unite them?
Has not done anything for AMERICA...but socialists reward other socialists! He is a globalist that kisses butt...but peace? Why doesn't charity begin at home?|||Anyone who has actually accomplished more than just being a town leader or whatever his title was before. He's not done much of anything since elected except talk a lot and spend trillions. anybody, incl. me, can do that. You seriously hold him in the same category as Mother Theresa??|||I think John Lennon should have been given a peace prize. It's his birthday today.
He did more to spread peace in the world to more people than Obama will ever hope to do.
Lennon also accomplished more in his short life than Obama ever will.|||I'd have to give it some thought on who "should have" won. However, there are tons of individuals that would at least make sense.
That Chinese disident, Bono even Cindy Sheehan would make some sense. The Dali Lama, the Pope.|||someone who had done something to deserve it.
i am not american, republican, liberal, any label like that. just of the opinion that an award like this should have a reason for it.|||Ron Paul- he fought for everything America needs to be. Not this reality version of 1984..... Look at his positions and you can clearly see truth....|||Pope John Paul II, for his opposition to the Soviet Union in Poland.|||I would pick an anonymous American soldier fighting in Iraq keeping that country and region free from the likes of Saddam.|||Æsop. (Sixth century B.C.) Fables.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
The Fox and the Grapes
ONE hot summer’s day a Fox was strolling through an orchard till he came to a bunch of Grapes just ripening on a vine which had been trained over a lofty branch. “Just the things to quench my thirst,” quoth he. Drawing back a few paces, he took a run and a jump, and just missed the bunch. Turning round again with a One, Two, Three, he jumped up, but with no greater success. Again and again he tried after the tempting morsel, but at last had to give it up, and walked away with his nose in the air, saying: “I am sure they are sour.”
“IT IS EASY TO DESPISE WHAT YOU CANNOT GET.”
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."
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