Congratulations: President Obama Receives the Highest Honor In Nobel Prize

President Obama has received one of, if not the, highest award given… internationally:

President Barack Obama  on Friday won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between people,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee said.

“Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world’s attention and given its people hope for a better future,” the committee said. “His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world’s population.” Advertisement

Obama’s name had been mentioned in speculation before the award but many Nobel watchers believed it was too early to award the president. The committee said it attached special importance to Obama’s vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons.

“Obama has as president created a new climate in international politics. Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations  and other international institutions can play.”

We commend our president on his overall outlook to the rest of the world. It seems it is still very hard to turn around the perception of our country created by Bush and others, but President Obama  is trying.