Obama Nobel Prize

Obama Is A Peacemaker

Robert Weller | Posted 12.22.2011

Robert Weller

Many who had voted for him believed he had let them down, that he was spineless. That kind of talk has stopped, at least for the moment.

Simon McCormack

Fisher House Provides Housing For Military Families

HuffingtonPost.com | Simon McCormack | Posted 11.06.2011

For many years, Kenneth Fisher said he never realized the struggles that military families experience. "I really didn't know much about the plight ...

Obama Jokes About His Nobel Peace Prize

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.30.2011

President Obama took a brief moment during an ambitious speech about energy on Wednesday to simultaneously praise a colleague and drop a bit of self-d...

WATCH: Obama Speaks On Being Awarded Nobel Peace Prize In Wake Of Libya

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - President Barack Obama says he's aware that he's a Nobel Peace Prize winner who's launching military airstrikes in Libya. ...

Obama's Tax Return RELEASED: President Pulled In $5.5 Million Last Year

Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 05.25.2011

President Obama's taxes have been filed -- and our nation's commander-in-chief and the first lady together reported an adjusted gross income of $5,505...

Obama's Nobel Money: President Chooses Charities To Receive Prize

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama plans to donate the $1.4 million from his Nobel Peace Prize to helping students, veterans' families and surv...

Nobel Peace Prize Gets Record 237 Nominations

AP | IAN MacDOUGALL | Posted 05.25.2011

OSLO — The committee that selects the Nobel Peace Prize winner will consider a record 237 nominations for the 2010 award, a Nobel official said ...

Between Hope and Despair: Martin Luther King, Barack Obama, and War

Medea Benjamin | Posted 05.25.2011

Medea Benjamin

In the course of one year, those who thought President Obama would move our nation closer towards Dr. King's vision find themselves tottering between hope and despair.

Obama Nobel Speech VIDEO: "Surprised And Deeply Humbled"

AP | DARLENE SUPERVILLE | Posted 05.25.2011

** Read the full speech text below ** (AP) WASHINGTON -- A beaming President Barack Obama said Friday he was both honored and humbled to win the Nobe...

Sam Stein

Obama's Nobel Prize Inspires Conservative Outrage And Confusion

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

The unexpected news that President Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize early Friday morning has prompted a serious debate as to whether the...

Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize

AP | KARL RITTER and MATT MOORE | Posted 05.25.2011

OSLO — The announcement drew gasps of surprise and cries of too much, too soon. Yet President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday b...

Obama's Nobel Address Put Liberal Face On 'Ugly And Decidedly Illeberal Policies,' Glenn Greenwald Says

salon.com | Alex Koppelman | Posted 05.25.2011

Reactions to Obama's Nobel speech yesterday were remarkably consistent across the political spectrum, and there were two points on which virtually eve...

What Peace Did He Achieve?

Richard Grenell | Posted 05.25.2011

Richard Grenell

The Nobel Prize Committee has damaged its credibility by giving the 2009 Prize to Barack Obama. It should have chosen a make-up award from past credible peace makers.

Oslo's Calling

Will Durst | Posted 05.25.2011

Will Durst

What worries me is, what kind of message are we sending kids? Bomb the Moon. Win a Peace Prize. You know what's next. People are going to want to bomb Mars. Just to see what happens.

Why Obama Should Not Have Received the Peace Prize -- Yet

Robert Reich | Posted 05.25.2011

Robert Reich

Giving the Peace Prize to the President before any of his goals have been attained only underscores the paradox of Obama at this early stage of his presidency.

8 Most Outrageous Attacks On Obama's Nobel Peace Prize

Posted 05.25.2011

Some observers have made reasoned arguments against giving the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama. And others just went crazy. Here's a roundup of t...

Bill Clinton Must Wonder -- Where's Mine?

Carol Felsenthal | Posted 05.25.2011

Carol Felsenthal

Not even as towering an ego as Clinton expected to win it while a sitting president, as Wilson and Roosevelt had, but not even they came close to winning it before they had spent a year in the White House.

Obama Nobel Peace Prize Reaction

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

We've rounded up reactions to Obama's surprising Nobel Peace Prize awarded Friday morning. Here are the collected thoughts of world leaders, journali...

It May Have Been a Nobel Peace Prize Speech, but Obama Is No Pacifist

Richard N. Haass | Posted 05.25.2011

Richard N. Haass

This was a supremely realistic statement about the presence of evil in the world, the limitations of international institutions, the need to talk to tyrants, and the unavoidability of war.

A Missed Opportunity: Human Rights in Asia

Jack Healey | Posted 05.25.2011

Jack Healey

Our president is afraid of being seen in public shaking the hand of the Dalai Lama. Publicly acknowledging the Dalai Lama's cause would be type of change I hoped to see when I gave money to Obama's campaign.

HuffPost Editor Roy Sekoff On Joy Behar Show Debates Reagan Vs. Obama: Who Deserved Peace Prize? (VIDEO)

Huff TV | Posted 05.25.2011

Huff TV

HuffPost Editor Roy Sekoff was a guest on The Joy Behar Show tonight, along with KT McFarland, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense in the R...

Reaction to President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize is Another "Teaching Moment"

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

Joseph A. Palermo

Are we incapable of recognizing the simple fact that it is much better for America to have a president who is admired and respected in the world than one who is despised and feared?

Obama's Nobel Peace Prize: Does He Deserve It? (POLL)

Posted 05.25.2011

The stunning announcement that President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize has inspired strong reactions across the country from pride to outrage, confu...

Twitter Reacts To Obama Nobel Peace Prize Win

Posted 05.25.2011

Shortly after the announcement that President Obama had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, Twitter erupted with congratulations, comments, and concer...

'Obama Doctrine' Praised By Conservatives After Nobel Speech

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

Conservatives reacted with shock and disdain to President Obama's Nobel prize, and some attacked his speech on Afghanistan before he even delivered it...