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I'm Rummel Pinera and I'm from the Philippines. I'm happy that Obama won this year's Nobel peace prize. In fact. the majority of participants of various on-line political forums that I've participated upon expressed satisfaction and happiness when they heard that Obama won this year's` Nobel peace prize. And those participants came from every region of this globe. It just shows that most citizens of this planet are in favor of the awarding of this year's Nobel peace prize to US Pres. Barack Obama.

I'm wondering why some hardcore conservative commentators in the US seem to be up-in-arms, so to speak, against the awarding of this year's Nobel peace prize to Obama. They say it's too early for Obama to win such award, or Obama hasn't yet accomiplished his noble objectives as US president, or Obama has not yet concretized any peace effort in any region of this world. I say such conservative critics don't really understand the fact that the usual nominees for the Nobel peace prize weren't or aren't really those who had already concretized their respective visions on how to achieve social change through peaceful means or how to have world peace. Those nominees were chosen because the judges for

the awarding of the Nobel peace prizes felt that such people or individuals have already shown excellent courage in either struggling to achieve political and social changes through non-violent means, or acting honestly to achieve political and social changes peacefully, or honestly contributing towards achieving international harmony and global peace. Desmond Tutu of South Africa was awarded the Nobel peace prize in 1984, but it took 10 more years- about 1994- when his country got liberated from the oppressive apartheid system. Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma was given the Nobel peace prize in the 1990s..... but Burma up to now hasn't yet been liberated from the tyranny of a military regime. But the good news is that the holding of free elections in 2010 was already announced last year by the military regime in Burma.

Obama has stood for respecting the UN as the main agency for global cooperation and the upholding of international law. He made clear of such stance way back in the early months of 2008 when he was still campaigning for the US presidency. He also made it clear back then that he will abide by international law, support all the UN-sponsored peace talks, move towards achieving a world without nuclear arms, and promote international harmony and global cooperation. Now that he's the US President already, he still subscribes to such visionary policies. And he has shown excellent courage in defending such objectives of his. Hence, he deserves this year's Nobel peace prize.

I think all Americans, whether they are conservatives or liberals or apolitical, should feel proud that their compatriot and chief executive won this year's Nobel peace prize. Americans should be happy to see their first African-American chief executive gaining this year's Nobel peace prize. Such feeling should also be felt by the hardcore conservative critics of Obama in the US.

I congratulate US Pres. Barack Obama for winning this year's Nobel peace prize. Obama deserves such honor. He's the man! I agree.