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Nobel Chief Finally Admits He Regrets Giving Obama the Peace Prize
Godfather Politics ^ | January 3, 2019 | Warner Todd Huston

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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To: Jyotishi

bammy gave money to a sponsor of terrorism. He should be in jail, not receiving any prizes.


21 posted on 01/04/2019 11:32:16 AM PST by I want the USA back (There are two sexes: male (pronoun HE), and female (pronoun SHE). Denial of this is insanity.)
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To: SkyDancer

We should give out college degrees at high school graduations so graduates can be productive and meet their potential sooner.


22 posted on 01/04/2019 11:33:36 AM PST by cnsmom
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To: Sans-Culotte

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.


23 posted on 01/04/2019 11:34:00 AM PST by ExGeeEye (For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

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.


24 posted on 01/04/2019 11:34:13 AM PST by elcid1970 (My gun safe is saying, "Room for one more, honey!")
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To: BipolarBob

The so-called “peace” prize will forever be a joke.


25 posted on 01/04/2019 11:34:31 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Jyotishi

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.


26 posted on 01/04/2019 11:34:38 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: Jyotishi

S_U_C_K_E_R_!_!_!_!_!_!_!_!_!


27 posted on 01/04/2019 11:35:32 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: BipolarBob

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.


28 posted on 01/04/2019 11:38:04 AM PST by Waverunner (I'd like to welcome our new overlords, say hello to my little friend)
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To: Jyotishi
he thought giving Obama the award would spur him to great accomplishments. Instead, Obama did nothing of note over the next eight years.

so....you discovered that Barry was lazy.
Myth Confirmed.


29 posted on 01/04/2019 11:38:19 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Jyotishi

They gave it to him to take a swipe at Bush. Nothing more nothing less.


30 posted on 01/04/2019 11:38:47 AM PST by crusadersoldier
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To: Jyotishi
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.

The official citation says "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples", so it was awarded for things the selection committee thought he already had done.
31 posted on 01/04/2019 11:42:31 AM PST by Chad_the_Impaler
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To: Sans-Culotte

Hope and change - Obama’s motto.


32 posted on 01/04/2019 11:43:34 AM PST by aquila48
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To: Jyotishi
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.

Yep, that's our Bambi

33 posted on 01/04/2019 11:44:03 AM PST by Robwin (very)
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To: Jyotishi

I think he forgot to mention regretting give one to Al Gore in 2007.


34 posted on 01/04/2019 11:47:15 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: Jyotishi
Shortly after his had occurred, Chris Plante was discussing the topic on his Washington DC radio show when an Obama defender called in to say that "The President deserved that Noble [sic] Peace Prize".

Chris replied, tongue-in-cheek, "Noble Peace Prize, eh?"

35 posted on 01/04/2019 11:49:06 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Marxism: Trendy theory, wrong species)
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To: Jyotishi

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.


36 posted on 01/04/2019 11:49:48 AM PST by Dawgreg
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To: Jyotishi

Great, now we’re handing out pre-participation trophies to encourage participation.


37 posted on 01/04/2019 11:50:14 AM PST by Hoffer Rand (God be greater than the worries in my life, be stronger than the weakness in my mind, be magnified.)
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To: Bayard

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.


38 posted on 01/04/2019 11:52:04 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: Jyotishi

“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.


39 posted on 01/04/2019 11:52:22 AM PST by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94))
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To: Jyotishi

It was a garbage award before they ever gave it to Hussein. Stupid thing just needs to be abolished.


40 posted on 01/04/2019 11:56:48 AM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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