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Obama Donates $1.4 Million Nobel Prize To Charities
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyPresident Obama donated his $1.4 million Nobel Peace Prize winnings today to 10 charities, with gifts ranging from $100,000 to $250,000 to groups assisting veterans and minority college-bound students and to Haitian relief. The $250,000 gift went to the Fisher House, which helps families of patients in military or veterans hospitals. The president donated $200,000 to the Clinton-Bush Haiti earthquake relief fund, overseen by the two former presidents, and $100,000 each to two organizations with projects in sub-Saharan Africa, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Obama also donated to groups helping ...
Experts: Nobel a Gift and a Curse for Obama
By Tamara Lytle - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Dec. 10) -- President Obama sent a clear signal Thursday in his acceptance speech that the Noble Peace Prize won't get in the way of choosing war over peace when necessary. But his critics likely will wield the award as a weapon against him as he makes those decisions. "His critics on both right and left will use it a lot. It's a ready-made line in an age of sound bites," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. Liberals will scold him if he wages more war after being lauded for peace. And conservatives will accuse him of kowtowing to the ...
Obama in Oslo -- Half Dove and Half Hawk
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyLong after Barack Obama leaves the White House, his presidency will be judged, in part, by the standards he set for himself with his Nobel Prize address in Oslo. ...
Voters Back Obama on Afghanistan, but Pan His Peace Prize
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyIf some see irony in President Obama going to Oslo this week to accept the Nobel Peace Prize a little more than a week after he escalated the war in Afghanistan, voters have their own divide on that pair of events: Obama's Afghan speech drove up the percentage who support the war, but only about a quarter believe he has earned the prestigious Nobel award. ...
How Obama Can Win Friends and Deflate Foes When He Accepts His Nobel Peace Prize
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyPresident Obama has given speeches on some tough and sensitive subjects in the past two years, from relations among races to U.S. relations with the Muslim world. The next major challenge is his Nobel Lecture on Thursday in Oslo, where he will collect a Nobel Peace Prize after less than a year in office. This is the third time the Nobel committee has awarded the Peace Prize to a sitting U.S. president. Theodore Roosevelt received it in 1906 as a "collaborator of various peace treaties" and in particular for his "happy role in bringing to an end the bloody war recently waged between two of the ...
What Should Obama Say in His Nobel Speech?
By David Knowles - AOL NewsOn Dec. 10, President Barack Obama will be in Oslo, Norway, to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. His highly anticipated acceptance speech comes just days after he announced his decision to sent 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. So, what should the president say? Just as there are varied opinions as to whether Obama deserved to win the Nobel Peace Prize, there is no shortage of advice on what the president should say to his audience in Oslo and across the globe. At Mediaite, Rachel Sklar says she believes the president should shift the focus away from himself and even suggests the wording he ...
Chaos Theory - Obama, Do the Nobel Thing
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Obama Gets Post-Nobel Bounce, But It May Not Last
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyPresident Obama's job approval for the last two Gallup tracking polls has rebounded to 56 percent after hitting a low of 50 percent last week and 53 percent in the survey taken just before it was announced he had won the Nobel Peace Prize. ...
From Silence to Outrage, Republicans React to Nobel News
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyEven before President Obama stood in front of the Rose Garden microphones to react to the news of his Nobel Peace Prize, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele sent out a statement asking, "What has President Obama actually accomplished?" Steele went on to rap both Obama and the Nobel committee, saying, "It is unfortunate that the president's star power has out-shined tireless advocates who have made real achievements working towards peace and human rights. One thing is certain – President Obama won't be receiving any awards from Americans for job creation, fiscal ...
Was Oslo Loony to Award Obama? Maybe Not
By Judy Howard Ellis - Politics DailyMaybe honoring President Obama with the Nobel Peace Prize wasn't as loony as people on the left and the right may think. Or even as I thought when I heard a Dallas-area radio talk show host compare the news to a spoof by the Onion. As one of my dearest mentors told me, perhaps the esteemed Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo was awarding a leadership trait that stands apart from epithets, threats and generally self-centered, Wild-Wild-West diplomacy. While many of us strain to hear the chords of peace, perhaps Oslo has picked up on its faint sounds. Peace, as my mentor reminded me, starts with ...
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