Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize Premature?
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Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his “efforts in international diplomacy”, Mandela sat for 27 years in jail, Aung San Suu Kyi spent 13 years under arrest, but has Obama proved himself yet?
Obama was inaugurated on 20Th January 2009, Nobel Peace Prize nominations closed on February 1st 2009. Which means that he proved to be a worthy nominee and was nominated within 12 days. This indicates to me that the idea of nominating him most likely came before he was even elected President, and that it certainly was not based on any of his achievements since becoming President. Did he perform some Peace Prize worthy deeds before becoming President?
Alternatively the Peace Prize was given in anticipation of his future achievements, but as I recall no past Nobel Peace Prize winners have been elected in anticipation of their future deeds. I haven’t always agreed with the committees decisions on whom to give the award to, but in this case the prize seems premature.
Let me say that I support Obama and respect him. I think we will see great things from him in the future. In the future. But for the time being, and certainly in his first 12 days in office, he is simply doing his job and has not gone beyond the call of duty. Generally people are not rewarded the prize based on the ideology they represent but on some kind of contribution they have made to the cause of peace.
The awarding of the prize to Obama has the faint odor of politics mingled with money, power and some influencial men standing in the shadows of world history.
The Peace Prize comes with a whopping $1, 4 million which Obama has, predictably, decided to donate to charity. He has not yet announced which charities they will be, but $1, 4 million is a huge amount. Could this be a prearranged way of transferring funds, or pay back of some kind? Will we ever hear exactly where the money goes to? Could some other worthy nominee have put the money to better use?
This news item will fade away, but the honor will stay with Obama, whatever kind of President he turns out to be. At the moment 1/5thof the US GDP goes on military expenses, the US troops are battling two major wars and Obama felt it was politically incorrect to meet with the Dalai Lama when he was in Washington, but the Nobel Committee said that Obama was awarded the prize for “efforts in international diplomacy”, so shouldn’t he be pulling troops out of Afghanistan?
Of all this information and buzz surrounding the award, for me it is the 12 days between Obama’s inauguration and the nomination that makes me do a double take on our new Peace Prize Laureate.
Barack Obama is a good man and I wish him well in now earning the prize he has been awarded.
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10 Comments
Once a Nobel prize winner said
”you give me the Nobel and leave no scope for improvement nothing more to do perhaps……”
In the case of Obama he has years ahead to prove, that he deserves/deserved it,
or else te Nobel prize conglomerate
know not what they do .
TIME WILL TELL
and you will know
what who deserves who/WHAT??????
In my opinion the award was most likely given because of his ability to generate so much hope prior to his election. If you go back to the months and weeks before he was elected. Then think about the scenes from around the world on election day and on inaguaration day in Washington D.C. I think you will realize that he did already accomplish something; he gave millions of people hope, when they hadn’t had it before.
I voted for Obama and I support him in every way but I do think it was a little premature and I could see he felt the same way.
I don’t want to get political but will add that Bill Clinton has done an awfully lot and in dollar amount for the benefit of mankind. So has the U-2 singer, Bono. I wonder how these two got unnoticed?
Lori is right, hope is what Obama promised us when we had despair with Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Carter…..
Quite frankly, the prize was given to Kissinger and Al Gore and Yassir Arafat, so the prize’s meaning is redundant, like all of our government is nowadays.
the man shouldnt have gotten it just like al gore dhouldnt have gotten it. Theodore roosevet was the first amarican to recieve the nobel peace prize the thing is though he deserved it.
Premature? Absolutely.
On promise, not performance
Perhaps a premature decision. But one thing is for sure that by giving Obama the Noble or not giving him certainly not going to change the future of the world.
TAe asa dapit namo makitah ang meaning sa premature power uy