Hot Topic (12/10): Does Obama deserve the Nobel Peace Prize?

[Cafe GroupAdmin]

 (CNN) -- President Obama -- fighting wars in two countries -- will arrive in Norway on Thursday to accept the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009.

The president will spend 26 hours in Oslo meeting the royal family, accepting the Nobel at an afternoon ceremony and attending an award banquet that evening.

At the ceremony, Obama will accept a $1.4 million prize check, a gold medal and a diploma.

He also will speak at the ceremony, which will be streamed live on CNN.com starting at 7 a.m. ET. He will touch on the war in Afghanistan, for which he last week announced a surge of 30,000 U.S. troops, said White House press secretary Robert Gibbs.

Obama's day will begin with a trip to the Nobel Institute, where he will meet for the first time the five-member panel that unanimously picked him for the prize, said Mette Owre of the Norwegian Foreign Affairs Ministry.

The president and first lady Michelle Obama will then meet with Norway's King Harald V and Queen Sonja before heading to the award ceremony.

"Then he goes to the hotel where he is staying. He will have some downtime. He is governing America at the time," Owre said.

In the evening, the president will be the guest of honor at a banquet where the king and queen and the Norwegian prime minister will be among 250 attendees, Owre said.

Obama's Nobel Prize win, announced in October, elicited swift reaction -- some hailing the choice; others asking what he had accomplished to deserve it.

Nominations for the prize had to be postmarked by February 1, only 12 days after Obama took office. The committee sent out its solicitation for nominations last September, two months before Obama was elected president.

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.

The Nobel committee said it recognized his efforts at dialogue to solve complex global problems, including working toward a world free of nuclear weapons.

"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," the committee said.

The president said he saw the decision less as a recognition of his accomplishments and more as "a call to action."

Some analysts have speculated that the prize could give Obama additional clout as he forms a new strategy for the war in Afghanistan and attempts to engage Iran and North Korea.

The domestic political consequences are unclear. Obama's supporters hope the prestige associated with the prize will strengthen the president's hand in the health care reform debate.

Obama, the first African-American to win the White House, is the fourth U.S. president to win the prestigious prize and the third sitting president to do so.

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Do you think Obama deserved to win the Nobel Peace Prize?

Why or why not?

[bellybeans_mom]

I don't think he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize... what has he done to deserve it??? If there was a deadline for the nomination and it was set for 12 days after he was elected... wth... why does he deserve it.

[resamerie]

No. As a previous poster said, nominations were due right after he was elected. Last time I looked, the Nobel Peace Prize was given for achievements, not promises. The man hadn't, and still hasn't, achieved anything to deserve an honor that he will share with the likes of Mother Teresa ond others before him.  

[home-sweet-home]

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Quoting resamerie:

No. As a previous poster said, nominations were due right after he was elected. Last time I looked, the Nobel Peace Prize was given for achievements, not promises. The man hadn't, and still hasn't, achieved anything to deserve an honor that he will share with the likes of Mother Teresa ond others before him.  

[Kidcrock]

Just as much as Al Gore deserved it for telling us it was hot out.

[JoshiRachelsMom]

NO.

[muslimah]

For what ???

 I don't recall that he has done anything to be worthy of anykind of prize let alone The Nobel Peace Prize.

 

Obama gets a Nobel Peace Prize

what for ??

he just has got in !!  
this is a premature-delivery !!!

 

Is this prize for his speech in Cairo

in front of a hand-picked- selected- audience

or just because..... ......... .
he has the same sun-tan as Martin-Luther- King ??

 

Is this prize for admitting that Bush got in Iraq

what Saddam Hussein has promised us ,
long before the invasion .

 

Is this prize for offering medical-help- security

in the richest society on this planet ??

 

Is it for bombing civilians in Kandahar ??

 

 

I know not !!

 

But I suspect that this prize is exclusively as a reward

for failing to stop even illegal-buildings. ...in  Palestine .

For failing to reign in a wild-dog-Nathaniahu ?? 

 

Why should I bother writing any satyr....anymore

when even Henry Kissinger got the same prize

and Isaac Rabin too.

 

George got a shoe
which he earned and he deserved.

Barrack got a Prize
which he did not earn , yet
nor does he deserve it , so far.

If the Prize were the shoe ?
then George , got what he earned !!.


As for the Nobel Prize for Peace ,
it all depends how do you define Peace ??
is it when :
you conquer your enemy ?
when you eliminate  it ?
when you dismantle it ?
when
you make it retreat definitively ?
or
when you crush it ??
often
Peace comes after a total-victory !!


So
which Peace does the Nobel Prize
recommend or reward in advance,
 for Barrack Obama
and
on whose account ??
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Raja

[cherry41089]

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Quoting resamerie:

No. As a previous poster said, nominations were due right after he was elected. Last time I looked, the Nobel Peace Prize was given for achievements, not promises. The man hadn't, and still hasn't, achieved anything to deserve an honor that he will share with the likes of Mother Teresa ond others before him.  

[stpalmsgirl]

Quoting resamerie:

No. As a previous poster said, nominations were due right after he was elected. Last time I looked, the Nobel Peace Prize was given for achievements, not promises. The man hadn't, and still hasn't, achieved anything to deserve an honor that he will share with the likes of Mother Teresa ond others before him.  

This. Besides that I find it kinda ironic to order 30 000 more troops to a war and than go and accept an peace price.

[amygray]

Quoting resamerie:

No. As a previous poster said, nominations were due right after he was elected. Last time I looked, the Nobel Peace Prize was given for achievements, not promises. The man hadn't, and still hasn't, achieved anything to deserve an honor that he will share with the likes of Mother Teresa ond others before him.  

Although it is not surprising.. in 1994 they gave a nobel peace prize to Yasser Arafat.. a  known terrorist. we all know how peaceful he was..so it seems they will give them to anyone.

[tsatt01]

HELL NO! I HATE THAT SOB! Hes ruining this country! And my children and thier children are going to be paying for all the deficit he is creating! HES THE WORST MISTAKE THIS COUNTRY EVER MADE! I DID NOT VOTE FOR HIM!