Ex-Nobel committee exec regrets Obama Peace Prize [Buyer's Remorse]

RT ^ | 9/17/2015 | Staff

[Jan_Sobieski]

Former Secretary of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee Geir Lundestad reportedly notes in his new book that the body “didn't achieve what it had hoped for” when it gave Barack Obama the benefit of the doubt and conferred the prestigious award on him in 2009. While it is quite rare for Nobel officials to openly discuss the nuts and bolts of their secretive committee, the former director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute has apparently owned up in his memoir ‘Secretary of Peace’, to be released on Thursday, that the panel had expected the award to somewhat challenge Obama, who received the Nobel Peace Prize during his first term.

The Norwegian historian told AP that the committee "thought it would strengthen Obama and it didn't have this effect." The five members of the Nobel Committee, often former politicians, are appointed by the Norwegian parliament. The coveted award was met with an avalanche of criticism instead. An army of opponents noted that Obama had made no foreign policy achievements worthy of the prize in less than nine months in office. On top of this, he received the award while the US was engaged in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan...

[Albion Wilde]

An army of opponents noted that Obama had made no foreign policy achievements worthy of the prize in less than nine months in office.

Yet Dubya was excoriated endlessly because 9/11 happened nine months into his first term.

Progressive hypocrites are alike all over the world.

[tumblindice]

OK, so the Noble “prize” isn’t an award so much as it is an incentive.
Uff da!
So much their credibility .....

[Jean2]

Love your picture!

[Ann Archy]

A Big Freaking “DUH”!!

[driftless2]

More like they expected to get their commie’s worth. Obama has failed to be as big Marxist as they hoped for.

[driftless2]

"The story is that he lost a few in a power tool accident."

What....fingers or brains?

[DoodleDawg]

Ex-Nobel committee exec regrets Obama Peace Prize [Buyer's Remorse]

So the satisfaction of flipping off George Bush has lost its luster?

[maxwellsmart_agent]

Gee, I wonder why they might regret giving the Nobel Peace Prize to a person who had done absolutely nothing at all to earn it. It’s obvious that he got the prize because he was black and at the time it seemed the appropriate thing to do, even though he had done nothing to earn it. What this in fact did was show that the Nobel Peace Prize was an absolute nothing. Since then, it is viewed as a joke.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

The Norwegian historian told AP that the committee "thought it would strengthen Obama and it didn't have this effect." The five members of the Nobel Committee, often former politicians, are appointed by the Norwegian parliament.

Article 1 Section 9:

No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state

Take that seriously, and it requires an act of Congress for a president to be entitled to accept a Nobel Peace Prize. Or for the Clinton Foundation to accept donations from foreign governments while she was Sec of State. Or for her husband to accept payment for a speech to foreign officials while his wife was Sec of State.

I will go further and state that it is questionable whether a retired POTUS, with a government pension, should do so. Even if I’m not sure it doesn’t gore Ronald Reagan’s ox to say so (in retirement, he gave a speech in Japan for serious money).

[Amagi]

I reckon most people don't care by now, because nominating Obozo as a candidate for this "award" within a couple weeks of his inauguration, before he had even done anything, forever cheapened the Nobel Peace Prize beyond recovery.
That everything Obozo has done has been a complete disaster built on a cascade of lies only further diminishes the Nobel Committee's judgement.