Obama's Twelve Days

Barrack Obama won the noble peace prize beacuase As for most presidents in their first year, the report card on Obama's ambitious agenda is an "incomplete." He banned extreme interrogation techniques for terrorists. But he also promised to close the globally controversial U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay,Cuba, a task with difficulties that have Obama headed to miss his own January 2010 deadline. He said he would end the Iraq war. But he slowed the U.S. troop drawdown a bit. Meantime, he's running a second war in the Muslim world, in Afghanistan -- and is seriously considering ramping that one up. He has pushed for new efforts to make peace between the Israelis and Palestinians. But there's been little cooperation so far.

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"For only the third time in history a sitting president of the United States has been awarded the Nobel Peace Price but unlike presidents Woodrow Wilson and Teddy Roosevelt, Barack Obama was nominated for the award less than two weeks after he took office and that is our headline tonight, "The 12 Days of Barack Obama."

Noble peace prize website
Barrack Obama's Speech


Presidents who won the noble prize

1. Theodore Roosevelt (1906)
2. Woodrow Wilson (1919)
3. Jimmy Carter Jr (2002)