Obama’s Nobel: Bane or Bounty?
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Last Friday, President‚ Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize - since then a virtual hailstorm of criticism has descended on the President. Worldview interviewed a number of different political commentators, to get their take on the President’s prize.
Iranian-American academic Kaveh Ehsani, Professor of International Studies at DePaul University says drastically changing the military tone of U.S. foreign policy is a significant step forward for the President.
Obama Nobel - Ehsani
Kevin Martin, Executive Director of Peace Action, says President Obama doesn’t deserve the Nobel prize for being the “not-Bush president”.
Obama Nobel - Martin Rabbi Brad Hirschfield, author of the book You Don’t to Have to Be Wrong for Me to be Right: Finding Faith Without Fanaticism,‚ says awarding President Obama the Nobel award makes a mockery of the Peace Prize.
Obama Nobel - Hirschfield