OSLO — President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” a stunning honor that came less than nine months after Mr. Obama made United States history by becoming the country’s first African-American president.
via In Surprise, Nobel Peace Prize to Obama for Diplomacy – NYTimes.com.
AWESOME!!!
“We can’t allow the differences between peoples to define the way that we see one another. And that’s why we must pursue a new beginning among people of different faiths and races and religions, one based upon mutual interest and mutual respect.”
“And that’s why this award must be shared with everyone who strives for justice and dignity; for the young woman who marches silently in the streets on behalf of her right to be heard, even in the face of beatings and bullets; for the leader imprisoned in her own home because she refuses to abandon her commitment to democracy; for the soldier who sacrificed through tour after tour of duty on behalf of someone half a world away; and for all those men and women across the world who sacrifice their safety and their freedom and sometime their lives for the cause of peace.”
— Barack Obama, announcing he will be accepting the Nobel Prize
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President Obama is extremely diplomatic and probably deserves this award, but it will give the rabid ‘right’ one more thing to criticize. I think I can hear them screaming now.
yup, Darlene, heads exploding all over the place in wingerville.