A couple days ago, I talked about Barack Obama and the changing atmosphere on the global stage that his election to office brought. A question that I have today is whether or not it was really that big. In a notable move by the Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee, President Obama was awarded a Nobel peace prize; as the third US president to receive the award, there is a huge expectation set on Obama for his term(s) in office.
Many people argue that it was too soon, and certainly unwarranted/undeserved after only a few months in office, but perhaps they just like the idea that he isn’t George W. Bush. The Nobel committee cited Obama’s efforts to strengthen multilateral relations and international diplomacy, as well as his vision of a world free of nuclear arms. The following video is from MSNBC video archives, states that Obama was nominated 12 days after taking office, which is quite bizarre by my view.
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Indeed it was too soon. But in retrospect, did he deserve it? Let me know by replying to this post below.
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