Swedish professor nominates Edward Snowden for the Nobel Peace Prize...

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46. Has he followed this up with significant reductions since?

In fact, were any reductions made then? How many other people worked on nuclear disarmament besides Obama? Whatever was done was not done under the Bush Administration, who took us out of the ABM Treaty.

Obama has as President created a new climate in international politics. Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play. Dialogue and negotiations are preferred as instruments for resolving even the most difficult international conflicts. . .

I'm sorry, to me that sounds like a thank you for defeating the Republicans in 2008. The opposites of those, unilateralism-- eschewing the UN and other international institutions-- and resorting to force rather than dialog, those were all policies of the Bush Administration.

Moreover, they can't be thanking him for nuclear reduction, because there definitely wasn't any. I'm certain he mentioned a nuclear-free world, but they definitely didn't list his achievements in nuclear reduction after that sentence. Was he given the prize for his sentiments?

No, I think the prize was awarded on hopes and best expectations. And the thanks turned out to be premature.

I'd call his accomplishments on nuclear arms modest, but I grade on a curve there, because the Bush Administration's actions left it in such a mess, it's almost impossible to put the genie back in the bottle.

It was great of him to give the prize to charity, (I am curious as to which ones) but like the Bush's, the Kennedy's, and the Clintons, the Obamas are never going to be short of money now. He does know what lower and middle class people know: that above a certain amount of money, it doesn't matter how much you have.