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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This guy is a double dick for two good reasons. One: He put the cart before the horse. Two: He failed to detect that Obama is no more than a tongue flapping empty suit.
He should have told the whole truth that the Euroweenies gave the useless Kenyan the prize to stick their finger in W’s eye and by extension our eye,
Gorbachev got the prize in 1990. Debatable, but not as bad as some other choices (Obama, Carter, Gore, Arafat)...would have been better if he had shared it with Ronald Reagan, but no way would they give it to Reagan.
No! You don’t say.
Who would have ever thought giving Obama a Nobel Peace Prize after about 5 weeks in office during which he accomplished nothing would make the Nobel Committee look like a bunch of really stupid leftist hacks? It was a total shocker that people saw it that way.
How many centuries will it take before the prize is ever credible again? And Who cares?
Good for him. I hope the rest of the braintrust over there feels the same.
That is Obama’s Legacy, summed up and as simple as it gets.
Give me the award, it might spur me to great accomplishments too.........or not.
The 2009 prize was awarded to an incarnation of Satan.
Note: this topic is from . Thanks Jyotishi.
The whole ‘white guilt’ thing cheapen the prize...
Bullshit! He regrets the flak he is getting for doing it.
The whole ‘white guilt’ thing cheapened the prize...
Even my most liberal pro-Obama friends — yes I have some, I live in California! — agree that the prize was ludicrous. And if you look at Obama when it all came down, he clearly felt the same way — embarrassed by it all. But hey, they gave it to Arafat, so maybe anybody can get it.
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