Posted on 09/16/2015 3:31:14 PM PDT by Hojczyk
“[We] thought it would strengthen Obama and it didn’t have this effect,” he told the Associated Press in an interview.
The award so early in his term appeared to take the Obama White House by surprise, and Mr. Lundestad said U.S. officials privately asked if a Nobel Prize-winner had ever skipped the awards ceremony.
Normally the Nobel committee’s decision regarding recipients remains private, and Mr. Lundestad’s frank and revealing remarks regarding internal decisions have caused a stir in Norway, detailing the politicking and compromises that have gone into determining the annual laureate.
“Even many of Obama’s supporters thought that the prize was a mistake,” Mr. Lundestad said. In the book, he expressed regret that the decision had been based in a hope for the future rather than recognition of past accomplishments, and that their expectations for Mr. Obama were not fulfilled.
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The day he got the prize was such a funny day here on Free Republic. Countless threads making fun of Obama winning the prize based on no accomplishments crowded out threads about other items in the news that day.
That Nobel given so early in Obama’s term stunned everybody.
The credibility of the Nobel panel has never recovered from that ridiculous social experiment in wishfull thinking.
Ya think?
Obama has to have been the only person in history awarded the Nobel Prize just for being who he was, in the minds of the awards panel. He had no accomplishments. Alfred Nobel would have fired the whole bunch.
Going from always giving the prize to Marxists to giving the prize to a man who hadn’t accomplished enough to even properly prove he was a Marxist, made the prize a punchline to all of Obama’s foreign policy failures and destroyed any credibility the prize will ever have.
It was politics, pure and simple. He got it for who he was, and not for what he did.
He probably would have stuck a stick of dynamite up their collective arses.
Truth be told, for the last couple of decades the Nobel Peace prize winners have been a pretty abysmal lot
Oh, come on!! The country’s on fire since that clowns been in office.
War is the new peace.
I’ve seen signs by auto repair shops that promise a Nobel Peace Prize with an oil change, /S
Paging Captain Obvious................
Jean Francois Kerry will be the next Nobel Peace Prize recipient.
They're giving European-style socialism a bad name or something.
That was a hilariois day! I laughed until I couldn’t breathe.
LOL!
The award just confirmed he was nothing more than the beneficiary of affirmative action...
You're making the assumption that the Nobel panel had any credibility in the first place.
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