Did Obama deserve the Nobel Peace Prize?
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Yes, Obama is a inspiration for Americans and the world because he is the first African American elected President in the greatest country in the world, but the decision is not mine. It is up to the Committee on the Nobel Peace Prize. Not sure how he was pick because as the President, he is involved in two wars. Side: yes
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Hear about that Nobel Peace Prize winner from the 70s? She made multiple death threats to President Bush. From the Sydney Morning Herald: "Long before the Nobel Peace Prize was debased and trivialised into an episode of American Idol, the failure beneath the soaring rhetoric of Barack Obama had been exposed. Even the secretary of the Nobel committee sheepishly admitted on Friday: ''Nominations for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize closed just 11 days after he [Obama] took office.'' Since then, the US President has knowingly propped up a corrupt and violent regime in Afghanistan led by a lying fraud. He has achieved nothing to prevent the continued building of Israeli settlements on the Palestinian West Bank. To hand the Nobel prize to someone whose credentials are in the potential rather than the execution confirms that the prize has degenerated into a beauty pageant." The rest can be read here (along with a rather appealing picture of your president): http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/ Side: No
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Yes, and here is why. After 9/11 our country went absolutely nuts. By the time we get to Iraq it's cool to preemptively invade countries in case of what they might do on the basis of what we are about to find out is forged intelligence after the British hearings conclude. We created gulags, secret prisons, used torture, and virtually tore apart the constitution all in the name of "security". The 2008 Republican National Convention looked like a damn police state where protesters were preemptively being arrested for what they MIGHT do days before and being put in pens. Footage had to be smuggled out of police actions like this as though this were China or some third world country. The American right went down right nationalistic. Even now they argue about which ideologue is christian and white enough. The Nobel Peace prize specifically is used as a political tool at times by the European left. Obama being given this may not be about what he did, but what they feel he has the potential to do, and not to mention the many actual controversial figures who have received it. Even so, if Obama's message and attitude during the campaign or his initial acts as president helped ratchet back the crazed fervor that still seems to infest our political system where everything, EVERYTHING, is about security and defense then he DESERVED that prize regardless of if he is a war president or not. Freight trains don't stop on a dime and neither does the bulk of the US war machine, but he did let back on the accelerator, and speaking in terms of the actions of the most powerful country in history, that made the world a more stable place. A place where a dialogue could happen once again, and that's why they gave it to him. Side: yes
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