The Glade 4.0

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.”

Michael when people are called upon to analyze their own behavior it has been my experience that they cannot do so logically. Only by de-personalizing the example (but compairing it so a similar situation) can they see how their behavior is actually flawed.

Taly,

Lighten up.

You can armchair quarterback this all you want, Khross, but these are the reasons why the President was so honored. Why can't you bring yourself to say "congratulations"?

Feel free to answer the exact same question I posed to Aizel... on what accomplishments was he nominated? Nomination deadline was 2 weeks after he was elected, so what at that point had he done to actually warrant a nomination for the award?

Or, should we start nominating everyone on the planet on the chance that they might do something, or say the correct things with no yet realized result between the closing of the nominations and the decision of who should get the reward?

devil's advocate here Ladas, but a president's contributions start long before they take office. Their presense on the stage during the election and in the months leading up to the swearing in can have a profound effect on the (inter)national dialogue.

I'm not debating if he deserves the prize or not.

I'm calling people to task for ranting about how unworthy he is without providing a suitable alternative.

The idiocy of this comment is almost unparalleled. There is no requirement to be able to propose a substitute to recognize that someone has not earned an award. However, I will be more than happy to hold you to this standard in teh future.

devil's advocate here Ladas, but a president's contributions start long before they take office. Their presense on the stage during the election and in the months leading up to the swearing in can have a profound effect on the (inter)national dialogue.

Feel free to Ladas. And Elmarnieh, the 'suitable alternative' was ONLY suggested in response to me calling people out on it.

So just to make sure I understand your position here Riov, you are advancing the idea that he was nominated for the his stated positions during the election process, and the impact those statements might have had on diplomatic discourse?

Feel free to what?

devil's advocate here Ladas, but a president's contributions start long before they take office. Their presense on the stage during the election and in the months leading up to the swearing in can have a profound effect on the (inter)national dialogue.