How does President Obama compare to nobel prize winners list?
Whereas most past winners already had achieved much, this time the Nobel Prize was awarded to President Obama before he even completed the first year of his presidency. Even still, the Nobel committee insists that this is not an “aspirational” prize, but for the work Obama has done in the past year. The chair of the Nobel committee former prime minister of Norway Thobjorn Jagland said: “We are not awarding the prize for what may happen in the future, but for what he has done in the previous year.” The announcement, which takes special note of Obama’s anti-nukes position, says that Obama has “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…thanks to Obama’s initiative, the United States is now playing a more constructive role in meeting the great climatic challenges the world is confronting. Democracy and human rights are to be streng
