Posted on 11/02/2019 9:17:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
President Barack Obama’s first act as a Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2009 — nine months after he took the oath of office — was to try to wriggle out of accepting it.
“The morning the prize was announced, his staff investigated whether anyone had failed to travel to Oslo to receive their prize,” writes Nobel insider Geir Lundestad in “The World’s Most Prestigious Prize” (Oxford), out this month.
Apparently, the president was among the 61 percent of Americans who believed he didn’t deserve it.
“It is true, Obama did not do much before winning,” Lundestad, 74, a member of Norway’s Nobel Committee until 2014, told The Post. “But he represented the ideals of the committee. And when we have an American president who supports that message, we like to strengthen him.”
Obama’s advisers soon decided the honor could not be refused. But as ridicule rained down on the committee for handing a peacemaker’s award to a man who was ordering drone strikes on civilians overseas, the White House grew increasingly hesitant, dithering for weeks over how much of the traditional three-day awards gala he would attend.
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Would Trump refuse it if ever awarded?
It was at this moment in time that the Nobel peace prize took second place to the trinket you get with a box of cracker jacks
The peace prize is a farce. Trump deserves it, bammy deserved jail.
In the words of Sir Richard Francis Burton, the author and explorer ~ "Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause."
Hey that’s good.
Well, now I have pretty much lost the vestiges of respect that used to have for the Nobel Committee. Screw them.
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Leftists take control of institutions, governments, colleges; and then destroy them. They are a guaranteed “expiration date” on any institution they infect.
Irrelevant jaw flapping.
President Trump is not black and Obama is.
Obama there fore is eligible for fake awards
I used to have respect for the Nobel Prize winners. But then Carter was announced as the Peace Prize winner in 2002. The reason? He brokered the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty with the Norks. And within 2 weeks, the Norks announced they had Nuclear capabilities. I yelled ‘TAKE THE PEACE PRIZE BACK’. And even though I was in Britain at the time, the Nobel Prize committee didn’t hear me. If Carter had had any self-respect, he would have declined. I have Leftist relatives who still revere Carter. Leftists can DO ANYTHING, and their minions will still support them (Oh, I guess until you get an Iron Cross tattoo in your pubic area).
Me neither. More like he got a thrill up both legs over it.
“Why Obama got a Nobel Peace Prize for nothing — and Trump never will for anything”
Gee, that’s a real tough question!
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