Obama awarded Nobel Peace Prize in stunning decision seen as early vote of confidence

OSLO — President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a stunning decision designed to build momentum behind his initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and stress diplomacy and cooperation rather than unilateralism.

Obama says he’ll accept Nobel Peace Prize as ‘call to action’ toward peace and prosperity

WASHINGTON — 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.

President Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize for efforts at diplomacy, cooperation

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Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize for ‘extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy’

OSLO — President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a stunning decision designed to encourage his initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and stress diplomacy and cooperation rather than unilateralism.

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  • mjaimejr Joins warmonger Yassir Arafat and KKK card carrier Woodrow Wilson. Mother Teresa would throw hers into the trash. https://bit.ly/gW5xy
  • aavvii congraats to Barrack Obama who got Nobel Peace Prize after Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson :)
  • archluke Is it really possible to be unworthy of a prize that says one is at least as much a man of peace as Henry Kissinger and Woodrow Wilson?
  • gswsyndicate "The South is the only place in the world where nothing has to be explained to me."----Woodrow Wilson #quote
  • skyelassclover Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize, and people say "what for?" well, I do think he is more qualified to get it than Woodrow Wilson was.

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  • normanhorn @darkroastbeans They have also given it to Al Gore, Nelson Mandela, Yasser Arafat, Woodrow Wilson, and Teddy Roosevelt. Pure value there.
  • roblef Obama is the fourth U.S. president to receive the award, joining other US presidents Jimmy Carter, Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt
  • dougontrack "One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat."- Woodrow Wilson
  • smbrown ... Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter, and, Barack Obama ... Good company..
  • robport RE: Woodrow Wilson was awarded his Peace Prize while still in office. https://disq.us/15146
  • stefanmk1 The last sitting US President to win the Nobel Peace Prize was Woodrow Wilson...yeah that worked out well. #nobel
  • arthurpark ...and we've had weirder winners in the past. woodrow wilson wtf!
  • lawpassion Woodrow Wilson, Teddy Roosevelt, Jimmy Carter, and
  • blazerfan Woodrow Wilson,Theodore Roosevelt and Barack Obama
  • muratkgirgin The President of Peace: Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and now Obama. I think there will be no more war now.
  • searchingfortao Lester B. Pearson, Martin Luther King Jr., Albert Schweitzer, The Red Cross, Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt.... sigh..
  • steveolenski RT @fcseh: US Presidents won Nobel pice: Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama
  • fcseh US Presidents won Nobel pice: Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama
  • geowa4 @kkuchta I love how Woodrow Wilson founded the League of Nations, but the US never joined it so it went no where.
  • jeffreytaylor Big parallel between Obama's Nobel Prize and the one for Woodrow Wilson for the League of Nations, which was rejected by the US congress.
  • andysternberg @MaryHodder I give him the benefit of doubt / understanding of history. I mean Woodrow Wilson flubbed his, Teddy R...
  • benjaminspector Woodrow Wilson won Peace Prize for founding League of Nations. The League died.
  • resamichelle Barack Obama is one of 3 SITTING U.S. presidents to win the Nobel Prize.
  • ubringmejoi RT @COOLRUNNINGENT: @ubringmejoi Woodrow Wilson ,Theodore Roosevelt & Obama @RosyAntoine
  • deniselai Theodore Roosevelt 1906, Woodrow Wilson 1916, Barack Obama 2009....POTUS Nobel Laureates
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