October 8, 2026
Barack Obama was handed the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 for promising to change the world. Obama had been president for less than eight months. He had ended no major wars, negotiated no historic peace settlements, and delivered little beyond soaring rhetoric about international cooperation. None of that stopped the Norwegian Nobel Committee from awarding […]
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Barack Obama was handed the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 for promising to change the world.

Obama had been president for less than eight months. He had ended no major wars, negotiated no historic peace settlements, and delivered little beyond soaring rhetoric about international cooperation.

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