Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize

By BET.com published on Friday, October 9, 2009 and is filed under Nation. You can follow responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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The nation’s first African-American President woke up Friday morning to receive another prestige honor; Nobel Prize recipient.

In what was a complete surprise to the President, the Norwegian Noble Committee awarded Obama due to 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 is the first sitting US President to win the Nobel Peace Prize since Woodrow Wilson in 1919.

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While some bloggers ask legitimately if Obama accomplished enough–with only being President for nine months–to earn the award. Of course, Obama’s political opponents are not cheering who they perceive as the first “Affirmative Action Nobel Prize Winner.”

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One Response to “Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize”

  1. stephanieOctober 9th, 2009 - 1:49 PM

    The problem with opinions is you are only allowed to have them against people you deem not worthy. All of white America was up in arms just a few weeks ago when a rapper named Kayne West stated” Beyonce needs to win this award not Taylor Swift”. Oh man white people near and wide lost their minds because this poor white girl was hurt, and vowed not to support his music. Now that a Black president has been given a Nobel Prize, white people have opinions and want to voice them (Just like Kanye) saying the exact same things like, “ This award should go to another person”, or he does not deserve it. Make up your minds people and stop being so obvious.

    Stephanie

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