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Early in the Demo primaries I decided to select Barrack Obama because I thought he had the best Moral Compass. In my opinion America's most pressing problem was that we had lost our moral way at home and abroad.

America, the World, and now the Noble Peace Committee are affirming that Obama's moral compass points true.

We are truly fortunate to have this man's hand on the tiller. Congratulations to us all. I will continue to trim sails for you.

I was surprised that President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. I think that he has very good intentions, but it is too soon. And if he could help me (and others like me) who got scammed by real estate brokers and loan officers, I would feel that he deserves his prize. For me, it is not about the war, though that is a horrible thing. It is something a lot more personal. Losing my home was the most devastating event of my life and if he would help me get justice and my money back, then I would believe that things can change in the world, that the consumer can be heard and be respected. I may be a number, just one more, but I count because without happy consumers/borrowers, what kind of economic future can the world and the U.S. expect? Eugenia Renskoff

Obama deserves the Peace Prize for one main reason:

He took away the power of one of the most dangerous regimes in recent history. The Bush Administration and the Republican party that would have followed them.

Disarming todays right fundamentalist Republican party and the negative actions they have created in the world do to ignorance and special interests deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.

If talking about peace is all you need, then there are millions of people that should get it. It should be about actions of the individual! Mother Theeresa did something, Desmond Tutu did something. What has Obama done? Are we out of Iraq or Afganistan? The peace prize is a joke!

He was very somber as well, or at least he appeared so to me as if he was so taken aback himself by this and now has this weight on his back to carry. He's got lots to think about and do and he might be able to carry out what is expected from the recipient of this award, if one can put it that way, that the best way to carry it out might be by not being in such a high position of leadership. But who knows seems he might be the one who can do it while holding such a high and prestigious global position. I'm having trouble deciding whether or not to go for a haircut today; aren't you glad I'm not the President of the USA! [smile]

This is Barack Obama, for godsake did you expect anything less? Really!

[12] SuzanneNYC

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

Lori,

Of course you agree with every plan Obama has put forward - Obama promises everything to everybody and delivers on nothing. Obama's plans aren't the problem, where is the action?

Maybe he needs to leap tall buildings in a single bound!

He's just one man, albeit an extraordinary one, but a man just the same. After so many years of truly ruthless and arrogant leadership, it's nice to have an idealist as a President and to see it acknowledged by the world. He has inherited HUGE issues and many of the expectations are unrealistic.

I do not agree with every platform he has put forward (in terms of feasibility), regardless, I am VERY PROUD to call him my President.

I guess the Nobel Foundation figured they had better give Obama the Prize now before he goes down in flames in the 2012 election and Sarah Palin becomes the next president and goes on to bring peace to the Middle East.

Henry Kissinger also won the Nobel Peace Prize. The significance is limited.

Peter, Menachim Begin was also awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and he was part of the Irgun terrorist group, which, among other things, bombed the King David Hotel in 1946, killing 90 people, including both Jewish and Arab civilians.

I have to doubt the patriotism of the right for not congratulating a sitting US president for winning such a prestigious honor.

Blah, blah, blah.

Show some moral courage with health care reform. Demand a public option by putting the cowards in Congress to change. Get the troops out of Iraq and rethink US policy in Afganistan. As history has demonstrated, brute force does not affect change. Helping to rebuild that country is the only way to counter the extremists. Making progress with our relations with Iran. Obama has so much potential to do great things but receiving the Nobel peace prize now is premature.

Could BL Show please post the entire statement from the Nobel Peace Prize committee explaining why they awarded the prize to Obama. Thank you.

Why don't we just wait and see what he says in a few minutes.

doesn't ending the recession help the cause of peace?

If Obama had any hutzpah he would throw the award back like a fan at a Yankees game hurling back an opponent’s home run ball.

President Barrack Obama simply needs to keep on doing what he is doing. Talking honestly about all events.
He is willing to engage all parties in honest dialogue.
He should accept it and put something that represents it on his oval office desk to remind him it is ALL ABOUT PEACE!
With peace everything else can happen.

He's not Bush.

That's huge. But I don't understand why that deserves a Nobel Prize.

The President should continue on the path which he is currently on, he will continue to be acknowledged for his accomplishments.

Here's the quote to which the last caller referred:

"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form."

Albert Einstein, quoted in New York Times, March 19, 1940
US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

The Country is once again laughing at the ignorance of certain people in the USA!

I'd like to see him be more willing to take real political risks to push nuclear disarmament, even when it is really uncomfortable for him. He has too risk-averse to date.

The Nobel Peace Prize is a joke and completely discredited. It was awarded to Arafat, a guy who strapped bombs to Arabs to blow up Jews. Giving out awards for terrorism is beyond gross. Obama should give the award back as a protest against those who support terrorism.

@BarackObama achieved the leadership of a former African slave colony! Something the Euro-Emigre majority will probably never admit. In addition to his unprecedented political agenda! The USA finally has a president who is 'working"_ WELL deserved! #nobel #prize