[WayneS]

The Norwegian historian told AP that the committee "thought it would strengthen Obama...

WTF?

[Fido969]

What a maroon.

[discostu]

It kind of did. All the pro-Obama people thought it gave him a boost in legitimacy. All the rest of us knew it didn’t, but there was a big crowd that was all “see he got a Nobel, he’s going to open dialog” and all that crap. Of course all that kind of artificial boosting evaporated 3 months later when he’d done exactly nothing. But for a short window it did enhance his cred, and if he wasn’t an idiot he might have been able to leverage that for something.

[Paul46360]

IT DID..but in a NEGATIVE way for the USA!!!!

[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).