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Obama's Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech

The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to U.S. President Barack Obama "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."[1] The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced the award on October 9, 2009, citing Obama's promotion of nuclear nonproliferation[2] and a "new climate" in international relations fostered by Obama, especially in reaching out to the Muslim world.[3][4]

Obama is the fourth U.S. President to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, after Theodore Roosevelt (1906) and Woodrow Wilson (1919)—both of whom received the award during their terms—and Jimmy Carter (2002), who received the award 21 years after leaving office. In addition, then-sitting Vice President Charles Dawes was a co-winner with Austen Chamberlain (1925), and former Vice President Al Gore was a co-winner with the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2007)

Obama is the first U.S. president to receive the award during his first year in office (at eight and a half months, after being nominated less than a month in office), although several other world leaders were awarded in the year following their election to national office, including Óscar Arias (1987)[5] and Aung San Suu Kyi (1991);[6]

On December 10, 2009, Obama accepted the prize in Oslo. In a 36-minute speech, he discussed the tensions between war and peace and the idea of a "just war".[7] Obama announced early that he would donate the full 10 million Swedish kronor (about US$1.4 million) monetary award to charity.[8] The largest donations were given to the housing charity Fisher House Foundation who received $250,000, and the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund which received $200,000. Eight organizations which support education also received a donation. $125,000 were donated to the College Summit, the Posse Foundation, the United Negro College Fund, the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, the Appalachian Leadership and Education Foundation, and the American Indian College Fund. $100,000 was donated to Africare, and the Central Asia Institute.

Obama said he was "surprised" and "deeply humbled" by the award. He stated that he does not feel he deserved the award,[16][17] and that he did not feel worthy of the company the award would place him in. In remarks given at the White House Rose Garden on the day of the announcement, Obama stated, "I do not view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments but rather an affirmation of American leadership on behalf of aspirations held by people in all nations."[18]

"Throughout history, the Nobel Peace Prize has not just been used to honor specific achievement; it's also been used as a means to give momentum to a set of causes," Obama said. "And that is why I will accept this award as a call to action — a call for all nations to confront the common challenges of the 21st century." He said those common challenges included the goal of eliminating nuclear weapons (which he said might not occur in his lifetime), nuclear proliferation, climate change, tolerance "among people of different faiths and races and religions", peace between and security for Israelis and Palestinians, better social conditions for the world's poor, including "the ability to get an education and make a decent living; the security that you won't have to live in fear of disease or violence without hope for the future." The United States, he said, is "a country that's responsible for ending a war and working in another theater to confront a ruthless adversary that directly threatens the American people and our allies."[18]

The award, he said, "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."[18] He did not take questions from reporters after giving his statement.

Nobel laureate and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore called the award "extremely well deserved",[47] Among elected officials, Obama not only received congratulations from allies such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, but kind words (if not approval) from some Republican officeholders, including Senator John McCain, who said, "I think Americans are always pleased when their president is recognized by something on this order".[48] RNC chairman Michael Steele discussed his disapproval of the award in a fund-raising letter, writing, "the Democrats and their international leftist allies want America made subservient to the agenda of global redistribution and control."

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[ObamaFTWdotcom]

Obama FTW!

[SpinCage]

Hahaha...fricking priceless!

[Badwolf182]

@aurielMoon apprently they are into opposities The more ppl u murder, the more likely u r to receive a peace prize!!! I am surprised Bush didnt get one.

[aurielMoon]

just a question that no one so far has been able to actually tell me:

what did obama actually do to deserve the peace prize?

[Zalahblue]

LOL! 

[JohnKillrory]

@virginiapicker Shut the hell up you moron!!!!!! Go to what you know best,picking your dingelberrys and ass hairs. Do the world a blessing and shoot your self fast.

Moron award goes to you ass wipe. We need the Nazis back to take care of people like you. A big ditch and tons of single shot ammo for you not to die to fast

[JohnKillrory]

He and his family are a bunch of monkeys, who learned to swing from the trees in the Kongo with dad Congo and their mom Cheetos. You where put in place to make the Muslims happy that they have one of their own in the WHITE mans house. In fact he is no Muslim, but a Mason and do as his owners tell him to do. Tell me slavery is abolished and I will sell you the moon. All around me are trainers who own plantations and seek to get the crops sheered. You are laughable and smell of oil

[ArubaSailing]

What?

[OK2BCK]

I enjoy this crap

[side1981]

@Oceanno69 yeah removing corporations from all forms democratic control and removing any form of the welfare state will help, vote for Nader you twat.