Obama Nobel Peace Prize for What did he Get it For ?

If you hadn’t heard Barack Obama was awarded the nobel peace prize this week but what did he get it for as it seemed to be totally out of the blue he was awarded this accolade ?.Hearing about this on the news we wondered about the Barack Obama nobel peace prize for what did he get it for and why was he awarded this in the first place considering he has only been in office a short time ?

The blurb says it was awarded “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples” and Obama would be travelling to Oslo in December 2009 to accept the nobel peace prize.

Many previous presidents have also won this award including Jimmy Carter in 2002, VP Al Gore in 2007, Woodrow Wilson in 191 and Theodore Roosevelt in 1906.

Reaction to the Award

Of course general reaction was positive from world leaders and Obama himself said he was surprised and deeply humbled. He went on that “I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who have won previously” and he also said as he accepted in a speach in front of the White House that it was “an affirmation of American Leadership”

The people who manage the award said Obama had “created a new climate in international politics” and when deciding on the peace prize looked at his vision and work towards a world without atomic weapons Thorbjoern Jagland the chairman of the nobel committee said.

Although many leaders brought favorable comments to this award many of the press especially those based in the US were not so positive  like Dan Balz of the Washington Post said “there was amazement all around that the award had gone to a president still in his first year in office with no major international accomplishments” whereas the London Telegraph said is was one of the biggest shocks in Nobel Peace prize giving history.

Of course now that Obama has won the award it provides increased and added pressure to actually get things done and almost thrown the gauntlet down to those who he is trying to put down nuclear missiles that it’s all down to Obama and no one else.

For example a spokesperson for the Taliban said Obama should have won the Nobel Prize for escalating violence and killing innocent people and mentioning that in fact he is sending more troops to Afghanistan and escalating the war there where as the Afghan president Hamid Karzai said that Obama was the most appropriate person to be awarded the prize.

For the 2009 Nobel Peace prize there were 205 nominations including Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai who had been one of the favorites to win it with Chinese dissident Hu Jai. The process of selection and all the nominations are kept completely secret for 50 years.

The award that Obama has won includes a gold medal, $1.4million and a diploma so we wonder what he is going to spend all his prize money on ?

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