Obama Is A Peacemaker
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.
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.
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 ...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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 ...
Medea Benjamin | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Richard Grenell | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Will Durst | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Robert Reich | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
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...
Carol Felsenthal | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
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...
Richard N. Haass | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Jack Healey | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Huff TV | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011
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?
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...
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...
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...
Robert Weller | Posted 12.22.2011