Posted on 10/15/2009 6:31:20 AM PDT by LottieDah
OSLO Three of the five members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee had objections to the Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to US President Barack Obama, the Norwegian tabloid Verdens Gang (VG) reported Thursday.
"VG has spoken to a number of sources who confirmed the impression that a majority of the Nobel committee, at first, had not decided to give the peace prize to Barack Obama," the newspaper said.
In a surprise move last Friday, the Nobel committee attributed the Nobel Peace Prize to Obama less than nine months after he had taken office.
The committee, appointed by the Norwegian parliament, honoured Obama for "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."
"The committee was unanimous," its influential secretary Geir Lundestad told AFP on Friday.
But Inger-Marie Ytterhorn, who represented the right-wing populist Progress Party on the committee, led the way in objecting to the choice of Obama because she questioned his ability to keep his promises, the newspaper said.
It also said the representative of the Conservative Party, Kaci Kullmann Five, and Aagot Valle, the representative of the Socialist Left, had objections.
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A definition of unanimous I was unaware of.
Well, obviously they didn’t stick to their principled objections — real profiles in courage those Nobel committeepeople...
Yeah, it kinda does. It must be pretty bad when even the prize they awarded Algore seems comparatively well-justified.
Prisoners in Nobeltown
Its a dirty little war
three five zero zero
So, if the majority was against 0bama getting the prize, how did 0bama get it?
Ah, yes. It’s that special “minority rules” thing they’ve got going there.
At least Algore had a videotaped powerpoint presentation as an “accomplishment”.
Your link is broken. Here it is
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gOy7GLcrP7iQja3yU5Zu4BHMqFdw
Your link didn’t work for me.
Try this:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gOy7GLcrP7iQja3yU5Zu4BHMqFdw
I tried to get to this article through the link on Drudge, but the article would flash up momentarily, then disappear. Does this indicate that a large number of people are trying to access this article at once or that someone (the White House?) is desperately trying to censor this article?
so...we all agree that he didn’t earn it and did not deserve it...but we gave it to him anyway because he’s bl
the same way that we're going to a proctologist to get nationalized health care.
THE WH of course is hoping this will go to page 7b on a back page of the news.
As it was SOMEHOW??? widely reported they OVERWHELMINGLY voted for the false messiah 0bama.
It would be racist doncha know NOT to give it to the man that trash talked our great country.
I think there was mercury in the lutfisk.
Efforts?! He tried extraordinarily hard, so who cares how badly he screwed up.
Whimps.
“So, if the majority was against 0bama getting the prize, how did 0bama get it?”
So, I’ll say the awful and un-pc joke. Affirmative Action?
The sad thing is it is in reality, affirmative action for socialists and anti-Americans—his skin color had little to do with the award.
the Norwegian tabloid Verdens Gang (VG) reported... "VG has spoken to a number of sources who confirmed the impression that a majority of the Nobel committee, at first, had not decided to give the peace prize to Barack Obama," the newspaper said... Inger-Marie Ytterhorn, who represented the right-wing populist Progress Party on the committee, led the way in objecting to the choice of Obama because she questioned his ability to keep his promises, the newspaper said. It also said the representative of the Conservative Party, Kaci Kullmann Five, and Aagot Valle, the representative of the Socialist Left, had objections.
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