Someone summed up the Obama Nobel Peace Prize thing perfectly.
Author: Sterling Heltzel | Filed under: Uncategorized
I don’t want to anyway, but it must be addressed, and “He became the first African-American president in a notoriously racist country, which has given hope to oppressed peoples throughout the world. While campaigning for and after winning that job, took the opportunity to tour the world expressing his ideas and beliefs about equality, race, mutual respect, honoring each others’ histories, appreciating cultural differences; understanding that one country is not automatically better than any other but that we all have important and legitimate ideas to bring to the table, and knowing that to move forward in a positive direction we must do our level best to use diplomacy to work together in peace. (Pause for breath.) He has stuck firmly to these notions and continues as an excellent example of thoughtfulness and reason as the leader of, arguably, the world’s most powerful state….Or, as the Nobel committee more succinctly put it, “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”" – Clara Sturak, via Sasha Stone’s Facebook
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October 13th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
I think Obama himself said it best.
“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.”