Liz Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, says that President Obama shouldn't go to Oslo to receive the Nobel Prize. Liz Cheney appeared on Fox News Sunday attacking the president's Nobel win.
According to
Raw Story, Cheney thinks that the
Nobel Prize win is a farce for Obama. The only way that the prize would mean anything would be if a family member of someone in the US military accepted it.
"I think the president himself understands he didn't earn this prize and therefore the notion that this White House has said he would go to Oslo to accept the prize would add to the farce," said Cheney.
Cheney is not alone in the criticism. World leaders have questioned the decision of awarding President Obama with such a renown award before important policies have been completed.
While the main concern over the Nobel Prize is that President Obama has not yet deserved the award, the fact is he was given it. Those who deliberate over who will receive the award hand-picked Obama. The President had nothing to do with that choice. In fact even Obama himself was surprised by the award. He has pointed out that the prize is not for his accomplishments at this time. He accepts the award as a call to action.
Reuters reports:
"The Nobel Committee wants the prize to have an impact and it certainly can with Obama, although in many ways it's premature," said Kristian Berg Karpviken, head of the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo (PRIO).
"I can't see another Nobel as daring as this -- to present someone who is only at the beginning and is yet to have a significant impact," he said.
When the announcement came out of Oslo the world started to debate what the merit was in the prize.
Obama has begun the road to peace but that road is still a long ways off. His early deeds have improved the standing of the United States in the eyes of some in foreign affairs.
Norwegian Prime Minister
Jens Stoltenberg was quoted by Reuters saying that it's an exciting prize but it still remains to be seen if Obama will succeed when it comes to peace and the nuclear disarmament he is still working on.
The Taliban has said that the prize should be for increasing the violence and killing of civilians instead of for peace when it comes to Obama.
Not everyone is against President Obama being awards a prize for Peace.
Reuters reports:
Saleh al-Mutlaq, a senior Iraqi Sunni Muslim lawmaker, told Reuters: "Obama succeeded in making a real change in the policy of the United States -- a change from a policy that was exporting evil to the world to a policy exporting peace and stability to the world."
