As links in an earlier post on this topic indicate the bulk of reaction to President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 demonstrates the validity of all crticism to date for the new American leader. Those who offer rebuttal to this criticism are fighting a losing battle. Given the simple criteria for Nobel’s peace prize and rules of the process for selecting the winning nomination the following excerpt exposes the sham.
February – Deadline for submission. The Committee bases its assessment on nominations that must be postmarked no later than 1 February each year. Nominations postmarked and received after this date are included in the following year’s discussions. In recent years, the Committee has received close to 200 different nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize. The number of nominating letters is much higher, as many are for the same candidates.
Assuming the rules were followed President Obama’s nomination was received less than two weeks after his inauguration. If he has not achieved even one goal related to the criteria to date how did the committee justify their winning selection so many months ago? It is obvious this sham was perpetrated for political purposes as suggested elsewhere. The next item presented below offers no logical support for the committee’s action but certainly provides evidence of the lengths to which some will go in pursuit of indefensible agendas.
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2009
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.”
Oslo, October 9, 2009
The connection to all things Obama with the word audacity reaches another milestone. Shameless promotion of the community orgranizer whose presidency presents a clear and present danger to the United States attracts another partner willing to exploit the weakness.
Stanford Matthews
MoreWhat.com
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