Now this must irritate Republicans, aka, the Party of War and Destruction. Not only is President Obama in office, but he’s getting the Nobel Peace Prize. They’re surprised, because they thought Bush and Cheney bombed it into oblivion:
President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, a stunning decision that comes just eight months into his presidency.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee said it honored Obama for his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”
The president had not been mentioned as among front-runners for the prize, and the roomful of reporters gasped when Thorbjorn Jagland, chairman of the Nobel committee, uttered Obama’s name.
The president, who was awakened to be told he had won, said he was humbled to be selected, according to an administration official.
The Nobel committee recognized Obama’s efforts to solve complex global problems including working toward a world free of nuclear weapons.
“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.
Read more. Back in 2006, we picked Obama was one of our Men with Mojo (in one of our first videos ever produced) and suggested he might go all the way.
Man that video needs to be updated.
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