Arsalan Iftikhar
True/Slant
It is now official…President Barack Obama has won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.
On behalf of our shared hometown of Chicago, this is even better than being awarded the 2016 Summer Olympics game.
Hey, Rio de Janeiro….You can have the Olympic games, because America has just won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize after getting the final official nod from the boys and girls in Oslo.
In a surprising moment that will certainly increase his political capital domestically and abroad, the choice of President Obama was quite surprising because President Obama “took office less than two (2) weeks before the February 1, 2009 nomination deadline.”
Many global observers said that Obama’s name had been mentioned in speculation before the award, but many Nobel watchers believed it was too early to award the president.
| Isabel Siaba, Brazil |
October 9th, 2009 2:36 pm ET President Obama exercised humility to attend a race of Olympic City in Copenhagen, something no other president thought it was their role to do. The US policy, of the Obama era, took a pragmatic tone that many see as cynical, but many others defend as a powerful engine of concerns 'ad eternum', as the Palestinian issue, dictatorial regimes, and the relationship with Latin America. |
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