The Nobel Peace Prize Goes to President Barack Obama

Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize Thursday, October 9, 2009. President Barack Obama’s been in office nine months. He ran on a platform of “Change”- “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”Barack Obama. Change the World, that’s why President Obama won the Peace Prize. According to the Associated Press article, The Nobel committee praised Obama's creation of "a new climate in international politics" and said he had returned multilateral diplomacy and institutions like the U.N. to the center of the world stage. "You have to remember that the world has been in a pretty dangerous phase," Jagland said. "And anybody who can contribute to getting the world out of this situation deserves a Nobel Peace Prize." The answer to those who ask – why? Why him? “People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.” Barack Obama In another Associated Press article, the President remarked he was both honored and humbled to win the Nobel Peace Prize and would accept it as a "call to action" to work with other nations to solve the world's most pressing problems. “Change doesn't come from Washington. Change comes to Washington.” Barack Obama

U.S. Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele is quoted as saying he “contended that Obama won the prize as a result of his "star power" rather than meaningful accomplishments.” "The real question Americans are asking is, what has President Obama actually accomplished?" Steele said. This from the person who stated, “I'm in the business of ticking people off. That's why I'm chairman." Steele, under the false impression his job is to piss off people in his own party.

President Barack Obama's election and foreign policy progress caused a striking improvement in the representation of the U.S. around the world. A 25-nation survey of 27,000 people released in July by the Pew Global Attitudes Project discovered double-digit enhancement to the proportion of people viewing the U.S. positively in countries around the world. That gauge had fallen across the world under President George W. Bush – the president remembered for having shoes thrown at him.

In a press release, the Norwegian Nobel Committee stated that the Committee attached special importance to Obama's vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons.... 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....

Theodore Roosevelt (1906) (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) was the 26^th President of the United States. –“... for his successful mediation to end the Russo-Japanese war and for his interest in arbitration, having provided the Hague arbitration court with its very first case" A peace prize for ending war – original.

Woodrow Wilson (1919) (December 28, 1856–February 3, 1924) was the 28^th President of the United States - "President of United States of America; Founder of the League of Nations”.  The League of Nations was an inter-governmental organization founded as a result of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919–1920. The United Nations replaced the League of Nations after the end of the World War II and inherited a number of agencies and organizations founded by the League.

Jimmy Carter (2002) served as the 39^th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. He was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office - "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development".