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U.S. President Barack Obamas Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech Thursday will focus on the discordant note struck by a war president receiving the wo
  

U.S. President Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech Thursday will focus on the discordant note struck by a war president receiving the world's highest honor for peacemaking, senior administration officials say. Mr. Obama has drafted the speech himself, beginning the day after he announced Hair extensions of the Afghanistan war last week. He will address the juxtaposition of the two very different events, as well as critics who say a president newly in office and pursuing two wars doesn't deserve the prize. "It is a very compelling context: When do you commit men and women to war?" said Ben Rhodes, an Obama speechwriter who is helping to hone the speech. The prize is usually given for a life's work in pursuit of peace and human rights. In Mr. Obama's case, the Nobel committee, in a controversial choice, awarded it to the president prospectively, citing his desire to curb nuclear proliferation and to push for a greater U.S. outreach to other nations, in particular the Muslim world. "He does believe that part of this award represents the desire for American leadership, despite some of the difficulties of the international environment in recent years," said Mr. Rhodes. The president and Michelle Obama arrive in Oslo Thursday. After Hair meeting Norwegian officials and the Nobel Committee, they will attend the presentation ceremony at the Oslo City Hall at 1 p.m. local time. The building holds 1,000 people, and organizers turned down thousands of requests for Hair extensions. After the ceremony, which for the first time will feature jazz music, the town will hold a torchlight parade before a white-tie dinner. Some Democratic advisers expected the president to lay out a broad foreign-policy vision in the speech. That likely won't be a central element. Mr. Rhodes said the presentation won't include specific policy recommendations and won't dwell long on any particular country or region. "I think he'll be speaking to aspirations that he thinks people have everywhere, be they in free societies or authoritarian nations. The Nobel Prize has represented a universal set of values and rights, and he'll be speaking to that," Mr. Rhodes said. The speech will include a review of foreign-policy priorities, similar to the discussion of America's role in the world over the past 60 years the president delivered at the end of his speech at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. The speech will reiterate the president's stance that nuclear weapons are a leading challenge to world security, but that won't be the core of the message. Former Al Gore speechwriter Chris Lehane said the occasion lends itself to a "big speech, looking to the horizon, the behemoth bestriding the globe -- but with a degree of humility." "One of the tests I always have for these speeches is when you read the coverage, is there a unifying headline and a pull quote that everybody uses? If so, you've broken through with a vision and a message." Mr. Obama will salute past recipients of the award, perhaps including Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Elie Wiesel and others, and has reviewed their speeches. He will offer Hair extensions to the military, prodemocracy activists and others whose sacrifices are deserving of the prize. Mr. Obama has been working late nights on the speech, scheduling time to write Hair around the White House holiday schedule. Mr. Rhodes, along with fellow speechwriter Jon Favreau, will help to polish the final draft, likely right up until its delivery.


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