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President Barack Obama says he will accept the Nobel Peace Prize with "great humility", though it's not an honor he feels he deserves.
The United States, although embarking on a new policy of engagement, will not lift its sanctions on Myanmar unless its ruling generals make concrete progress toward democratic reform, a senior U.S. diplomat said Thursday.
A fledging museum devoted to the pursuit of peace is hoping its mission is just what President Barack Obama is looking for when he decides what to do with the $1.4 million cash award that comes with his Nobel Peace Prize.
Former President Jimmy Carter said Thursday that President Barack Obama deserves his Nobel Peace Prize based on his achievements and the promise of an aggressive agenda that he's still working to fulfill.
The Pakistani Taliban has criticized the decision to award Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize saying the U.S. president should have received a "villain of peace" award instead.
One judge noted with surprise that President Barack Obama "didn't look particularly happy" at being named the Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Another marveled at how critics could be so patronizing.
Members of the Norwegian committee that gave Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize are strongly defending their choice against a storm of criticism that the award was premature and a potential liability for the U.S. president.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton scoffed Monday at suggestions that she has been “largely invisible” on major foreign policy issues in the Obama White House, and said that she has no interest in another run at the White House.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says she thinks President Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize because of "his attitude toward America's role in the world."
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says President Barack Obama does not deserve the Nobel Peace Prize.
Many of the 75 activists jailed in a 2003 Cuban government crackdown on political dissent are congratulating Barack Obama for winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
Pakistan, rocked by bombings, sets its sights on militant sanctuary along Afghan border
President Barack Obama will donate the $1.4 million cash award that comes with the Nobel Peace Prize to charity.
Moments after President Barack Obama got the news about winning the Nobel Peace Prize, his excited daughters came to congratulate him.
— The committee does not release the names of any candidates and keeps records sealed for 50 years.
Gee, you'd think a U.S. president who won the Nobel Peace Prize might get rave reviews from his party's activists and polite congrats from top Republicans.
Some U.S. reaction to President Barack Obama's win of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday:
President Barack Obama's Kenyan step-grandmother on Saturday advised this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner to be of good character and continue to work for peace.
Former vice president and Nobel Laureate Al Gore is calling President Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize win extremely well deserved and an honor for the country.
The chairman of the Republican Party is contending that President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize as result of his "star power" rather than meaningful accomplishments.
Former President Jimmy Carter says the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to President Barack Obama is a "bold statement of international support for his vision and commitment."
Now that he's Nobel laureate Barack Obama, will he find smoother sailing for his plans to rid the world of nuclear weapons, to forge Mideast peace and stabilize Afghanistan, to halt climate change?
The choice of President Barack Obama for the Nobel Peace Prize was cheered Friday by a global chorus from European leaders to minibus passengers in Kenya — but it also elicited criticism over the decision to break with tradition and recognize hopeful promise over concrete achievement.
The announcement drew gasps of surprise and cries of too much, too soon. Yet President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday because the judges found his promise of disarmament and diplomacy too good to ignore.
A beaming President Barack Obama said Friday 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.
Obama's Town Hall Meeting with Shanghai Students: Full Transcript... Tomorrow and the next day I hope to have a chance when I'm in Beijing to see the majesty of the Forbidden City and the wonder of the Great Wall. Truly, this is a nation that encompasses both a rich history and a belief in the promise of the future.
Spiegel: "Obama has failed the world on climate change"
Insanity and the Nobel Peace Prize: Obama and the Rule of LawOn 9th of October President Obama was awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize for: "..his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."
Dear Pres Barack Obama re: World wide job creation , global economic recovery, 3,000yrs old sports revival
Interview with Charles Krauthammer 'Obama Is Average'This is a fascinating interview with Charles Krauthammer. The German magazine, Der Spiegel, interviews the great Charles Krauthammer. Their questions are almost as interesting.
Hope Springs Eternal: Assessing Barack Obama's ProgressAnna Quindlen thinks that, so far, the Obama's presidency has been exactly what the Founding Father's would have wanted.
Matthews: 'What G--D--- Award' Does Dick Cheney Deserve?CHRIS MATTHEWS: Let's go back to David Corn [of the leftist Nation mag].
The danger of Obama's ditheringHis foreign policy brings to mind Jimmy Carter, or perhaps Ethelred the Unready.
Dangerous currents in PalestineThe social and economic life in Jerusalem and the West Bank appears to be on a positive upwards trend.
Why President Obama Was Awarded the Nobel Prize by Dennis PragerHow did this happen? What was the Oslo Committee's motive?
The Nobel-Hollywood Complex Implodes :: Noemie Emery Three times in the past several weeks, fortune has seemed to beam on conservatives, in unexpected and unprompted ways. Not that they've won much, but their tormentors keep losing.
The Obama presidency: Where I dissent Recently The Jerusalem Post ran a brilliant and troubling piece by Amir Mizroch titled Why everyone is saying no to Obama.
Is fame the real reason Barack won Nobel prize? It's Bono I feel sorry for. The man must be gutted . . . For years now he's been selflessly circumnavigating the globe by private jet advising the rest of us how, by cutting back on our once-a-year no-frills, short-haul holiday flight, we might moderate our carbon footprint.
It is too early to laud Obama – or to be disappointed by Clive CrookAs seen from the US, the timing is especially jarring. The committee has awarded its prize just as Mr Obama has begun to be the butt of jokes from previously friendly quarters about broken promises and the gap between words and deeds.
Obama Barred Constitutionally From Accepting NobelPeople can, and undoubtedly will, argue for some time about whether President Obama deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. Meanwhile, though, there's a simpler and more immediate question: Does the Constitution allow him to accept the award?
Debacle in Moscow by Charles Krauthammer"About the only thing more comical than Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize was the reaction of those who deemed the award "premature," as if the brilliance of Obama's foreign policy is so self-evident and its success so assured that if only the Norway Five had waited a few years, h …
Friday's announcement that President Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize seemed to take everyone by surprise. Cynics scolded the Nobel Committee, claiming the freshman President has not done enough to earn the prize.
Daniel Henninger: A Decadent Nobel"The committee said it chose Barack Obama for his "vision of . . . a world without nuclear weapons" and for "meeting the great climactic challenges the world is confronting." I'd say that completes the argument over old and new Europe. This is a Nobel of decadence."
Sean Hannity on Nobel Peace Prize: "Frankly, I would've given it to George Bush."HANNITY: [Yasser Arafat] got the Nobel peace prize. Excuse me, a terrorist got the Nobel peace prize. Some people deservedly so. You know who else deserved it? Ronald Reagan. And frankly, I would've given it to George Bush.
Nobel Prize panel embarrasses itselfBuchanan embarrasses himself when he quotes Voltaire who said "All my life, I have had but one prayer: O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous.
Ralph Nader on Obama: "A Frightened Man" -- "Very Disappointing"His early months in office have been "very disappointing."Obama is "a frightened man," who won't take on corporate power. Obama is "conflict averse" - and a "harmony ideology type," who's being taken advantage of by the sharks in Congress, of both parties.
I take offense at Michael Moore's attempt to facilitate the establishment's NWO agenda and ingratiate himself with the Obama administration,trying to draw us in to his mindset of subservience with the propaganda article he wrote:
Gawker's List of American Things That Barack Obama Has Made "Unamerican" by Doing/Liking ThemEven though he didn't deserve it, it's still awesome that Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize, right? No, it's not. It used to be, but now that Barack Obama has done it, it's un-American.
Nobel Committee Comes Out Swinging in Defense of Obama Decision"We simply disagree that he has done nothing," committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland told the AP on Tuesday. "He got the prize for what he has done."
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