President Obama awarded the Nobel Peace prize for changing the

October 9, 12:45 PMChicago City Hall ExaminerJohn Presta

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Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee Thorbjorn Jagland,
announces that the Nobel Peace Prize 2009 will be awarded
to U.S. President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Torbjorn Gronning)

President Barack Obama will be awarded the Nobel Peace prize and will be the third sitting President to receive the award. The others were Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Jimmy Carter also received the award 22 years after he left office in 2002. 

WASHINGTON — President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” a stunning honor that came less than nine months after he made United States history by becoming the country’s first African-American president. 

The award, announced in Oslo by the Nobel Committee while much of official Washington — including the president — was still asleep, cited in particular the president’s efforts to rid the world of nuclear weapons. 

“He has created a new international climate,” the committee said. 

While the President said he was "surprised an deeply humbled" by the award, he also brushed aside the notion that he would not accept it. He would accept it on behalf of the American people as a "call to action." 

The President, as he has always done, will use this award as a "catalyst for change" and take this opportunity to bring a lasting peace to the world.  Chicago City Hall Examiner.