Robert Fisk: Obama’s Nobel Prize for Public Speaking

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AlJazeeraEnglish
October 11, 2009

We discuss the motives behind granting the Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama, the US president. Does he deserve the prize? And what has he achieved? Or was the award granted in the hope he would succeed in the future?

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