President Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize

Posted on 10/9/2009 at 3:02:15 AM

The President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, accepts the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize as a “call to action.”
The Nobel Committee release stated as follows:

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy [...]