President Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize because of his "extraordinary efforts in strengthening international diplomacy and for taking landmark initiatives to create a nuclear-free world".
This award has been given to many other Presidents including Theodore Roosevelt (1905),Woodrow Wilson (1919), Jimmy Carter Jr (2002) and former Vice President Al Gore. The Nobel Peace Prize is an award given to a person or an organization who has "done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations, and for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses." President Obama has been the President for less than a year and he said in his speech, "I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who've been honored by this prize." Although he has not served at least a year as president, I think he deserves it because he has changed the world.
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