so....you discovered that Barry was lazy.
Myth Confirmed.
Posted on 01/04/2019 11:15:53 AM PST by Jyotishi
Anyone with half an ounce of brains immediately knew in 2009 that the Nobel Peace Prize committee was making itself look foolish for giving Barack Obama its top award even though he had only been president for about five minutes. Now the group's former secretary is admitting that the whole thing was a huge mistake.
Nobel's former secretary, Geir Lundestad, told the media that he thought giving Obama the award would spur him to great accomplishments. Instead, Obama did nothing of note over the next eight years.
Lundestad addressed the foolhardy decision in his recently published autobiography, according to the BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34277960
Mr Lundestad, writing in his memoir, Secretary of Peace, said even Mr. Obama himself had been surprised.
"No Nobel Peace Prize ever elicited more attention than the 2009 prize to Barack Obama," Mr. Lundestad writes.
"Even many of Obama's supporters believed that the prize was a mistake," he says. "In that sense the committee didn't achieve what it had hoped for".
Lundestad that at first Obama greeted the situation with some good sense and initially said he did not even want to come pick the thing up.
But, soon enough his natural (and proper) embarrassment at being given the award for no logical reason was overcome by his arrogance and desire for personal adulation. He went and picked it up in person anyway.
Of course, Obama's detractors here in the U.S.A. widely made fun of the idiotic award.
As well they should. Obama did not deserve any "peace prize" before he had even fairly begun his first term. And eight years later, even Lundestad now admits that Obama did nothing even after two terms to deserve it.
It's about time they admit it.
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bammy gave money to a sponsor of terrorism. He should be in jail, not receiving any prizes.
We should give out college degrees at high school graduations so graduates can be productive and meet their potential sooner.
Can I get the award for Chemistry? I can use the money to pay for a college course in that subject. Might even develop something useful.
These clueless Scandahoovians give out Nobels solely to stick a thumb in the eye of America, while they allow their homelands to be flooded with Muslim savages.
OK, maybe the Danes are finally waking up.
The so-called “peace” prize will forever be a joke.
Yet they have no regrets about giving the prize to Yasser Arafat, the founder of modern Islamic terrorism. Ever since then, it automatically became an insult to get one.
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Hey, when do I get my Nobel prize. I think molecular biology or physics, or literature, Beacuse I wil be spurred to us molecular biology to make nannites to create a dark energy tap to provide free non polluting energy with no carbon footprint, then I will write song about it, wanna here it, here it goes. After that I will write my autobiogrphy and reveal the seret of eternal youth. At least my plan for what I would do to earn my prize is better than Obama’s.
They gave it to him to take a swipe at Bush. Nothing more nothing less.
Hope and change - Obama’s motto.
Yep, that's our Bambi
I think he forgot to mention regretting give one to Al Gore in 2007.
Chris replied, tongue-in-cheek, "Noble Peace Prize, eh?"
Just cry in your beer. Don’t even think about giving our President one. I for one would discourage him from taking that piece of junk!! It’s tainted.
Great, now we’re handing out pre-participation trophies to encourage participation.
Yes.
There was always a whiff of something patronizing about the whole thing. I don’t think the narcissist in chief was aware enough to be embarrassed over it, though.
“The committee didn’t achieve what it had hoped for.”
Sadly, every Nobel prize is now associated with 0bama. Funny how the Nobel prize is now garbage. So Harvard has 33 Nobel prize winners? Doesn’t mean a thing anymore.
It was a garbage award before they ever gave it to Hussein. Stupid thing just needs to be abolished.
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