>The reasons cited by the committee was his "promotion of nuclear nonproliferation" and reaching out to the Muslim world. That may have been the stated reason,

>The reasons cited by the committee was his "promotion of nuclear nonproliferation" and reaching out to the Muslim world. That may have been the stated reason, but I doubt it was the real reason. Would a white male president have received the Nobel for that? Doubt it. I think many people interpreted it as being awarded to Obama for having busted the glass ceiling, even if the Nobel committee went with a more pedestrian official explanation.