Here are the Obama Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech video, photos and transcript from Dec. 10, 2009 live in Oslo, Norway. The U.S. President delivers the Nobel Lecture address in a ceremony which can be seen via the live stream video broadcast beginning at 7a.m. ET. Thereafter come back for the full video, text and pictures below.
UPDATE: Here is the full Barack Obama Nobel Peace Prize speech transcript. Here is a picture of Obama accepting the prize. More photos are below. The Obama Nobel Lecture has transpired, the full video is also below.
The acceptance of the prize with the Nobel Lecture, as the speech is properly termed, is not without controversy (a recent CNN poll shows only 19 percent of Americans believe the president deserves the prize), especially in light of the President’s recent announcement to send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. According to Jeff Zeleny of the New York Times, Obama worked with speechwriters Ben Rhodes and Jon Favreau, after the announcement of the Afghanistan war strategy.
“There is one very pregnant question,” said David Axelrod, a senior adviser to Mr. Obama. “How do you reconcile your role as a commander in chief with your aspirations to promote a more peaceful world at a time of war? That’s a question that he’s going to explore in some detail.”
He is reported to have read the lecture of President Theodore Roosevelt, who was the 1906 Nobel Prize recipient. (President Woodrow Wilson, who received the prize in 1919 was unable to attend in Oslo due to illness and sent a telegram.) He is also said to have studied the lecture of the 1953 George C. Marshall, who was responsible for the Marshall Plan which helped rebuild Europe after World War II. as well as those lectures of the 1964 recipient, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the 1993 recipient former president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela.
Breaking with tradition, Obama will not conduct a press conference, nor will he have lunch with the king or dinner with the Nobel committee. Additionally, he will not attend the traditional concert presented in honor of the Nobel Laureate, which will be hosted by Will Smith and his wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith and feature performances from Toby Keith and Wyclef Jean among others.
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Let us not wait for Obama to give speeches then we start talking about it the whole day we all have a resposibility or a role in this world.Like Obama said there is a woman facing punishing poverty but stiil takes time to teach her child with the little coins she has but she knows the world still has a place for his child.Let us be resposible and be cosiderate of others