{"id":5981,"date":"2009-10-09T08:34:03","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T08:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2009\/10\/president-obama-nobel-peace-pr.html"},"modified":"2009-10-09T08:34:03","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T08:34:03","slug":"president-obama-nobel-peace-pr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2009\/10\/president-obama-nobel-peace-pr.html","title":{"rendered":"President Obama: Nobel Peace Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>We pride ourselves on civility at this blog, but I had to remove a comment or two because they went over the top. Please treat the President and others with civility. Thanks. By the way, I weighed in in the comments on how I see this award.<\/i><\/p>\n<div><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><b><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: normal\"><br \/><\/span><\/b><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"LincObama.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/120\/import\/imgs\/LincObama.jpg\" width=\"196\" height=\"397\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right;margin: 0 0 20px 20px\" \/><\/form>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/WORLD\/europe\/10\/09\/nobel.peace.prize\/index.html\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/WORLD\/europe\/10\/09\/nobel.peace.prize\/index.html\">President Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize<\/a>. &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>What are your thoughts?<\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Why? &nbsp;The committee: &#8220;<span class=\"Apple-style-span\">extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"arial, sans-serif\" size=\"3\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 15px\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 15px\">&#8220;Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world&#8217;s attention and given its people hope for a better future,&#8221; the committee said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"arial, sans-serif\" size=\"3\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 15px\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"arial, sans-serif\" size=\"3\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 15px\">&#8220;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&#8217;s population,&#8221; it said.<br \/><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<div><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"arial, sans-serif\" size=\"3\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 17px\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"arial, sans-serif\" size=\"3\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 17px\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We pride ourselves on civility at this blog, but I had to remove a comment or two because they went over the top. Please treat the President and others with civility. Thanks. By the way, I weighed in in the comments on how I see this award. President Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gospel"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>President Obama: Nobel Peace Prize - Jesus Creed<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2009\/10\/president-obama-nobel-peace-pr.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"President Obama: Nobel Peace Prize - Jesus Creed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We pride ourselves on civility at this blog, but I had to remove a comment or two because they went over the top. 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