Barack Obama gets the Nobel Peace Prize on December 10th
Posted: Tuesday, December 08, 2009
by Ransy Reynis
http://www.coachransy.com
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 will be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and of International Cooperation, said the head of the Nobel Committee, Thorbjrn Jagland, under publication. There was a gasp through the audience which was in the room when Jagland read up Obama's name.
I agree with the Nobel Committee in that Obama has played a positive role in several areas, and has sent many interesting signals. But should the peace prize go to a sitting president in USA , while being responsible for the warfare in Afghanistan ?
Right from day one, the Nobel Committee has challenged our traditional view of the word peace.
Nobel Committee makes its selection on the basis of the nomination proposals that are received or postmarked before February 1 th the current year. Proposals that do not meet the deadline is normally taken at next year's rating. Nobel committee members have the right to promote its own proposals as late as at the first committee meeting after the deadline.
After deadline for this year nomination President Barack Obama name was not among the nominated.
It was the Nobel Committee's fresh leader Thorbjrn Jagland and Geir Lundestad that nominated Barack Obama and they were the strongest voice for the peace prize should be awarded to the new U.S. president. According to VG Norway's biggest newspaper sources.
Should the Council of Europe chief Thorbjrn Jagland also be chairman of the Nobel Committee?
Three out of five members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee hesitated long before they would give the peace prize to Obama.
Not all think Obama is the Peace Prize worthy.
Barack Obama said that he was both surprised and humbled to the Nobel committee's decision.
Obama also said the award does not reflect his own achievements.
The award is recognition that the United States takes a leadership role in matters where we have common aspirations with the rest of the world, according to Obama.
When the updated program for Barack Obama's visit to Norway was made public Monday, it became clear that this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner will not attend many of the traditional programs:
** Children event at Town Square
** Peace Prize concert
** The exhibition in honor of him at the Peace Center
** Press Conference at the Grand
** The interview with CNN's Jonathan Mann, who has interviewed the 14 previous award winners, shall be deleted from the program
** Lunch with the King is reduced to an audience at the Palace
Should we not understand that the world's most powerful man has an extensive program?
Obama and his staff have a desire to make the trip to Oslo as anonymous as possible.
With the Peace Prize, he is at home seen as a European friendly half socialist. The fewer the United States who know about this trip, the better.
Despite disappointment over Obama's many cancellations we understand, he is the world's most powerful head of state and a busy man.
You can say that. But the Nobel Peace Prize is the world's most important award.
Congratulation with the Peace Prize President Barack Obama.
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