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Nobel Panel: On Second Thought, Giving Obama the Peace Prize May Have Been a ‘Mistake’
Townhall.com ^ | September 17, 2015 | Leah Barkoukis

Posted on 09/17/2015 6:42:59 PM PDT by Kaslin

When the Nobel committee awarded President Obama the Peace Prize just eight and a half months after he stepped foot in the Oval Office, many people were left scratching their heads. After all, what, exactly, had this community organizer-turned-president done yet to deserve a prize shared by the likes of Mother Theresa? Well, even the committee acknowledged at the time they weren’t giving it to him for accomplishments already made, but those hoped for.

And now, according to a new memoir by the former director of Norway’s Nobel Institute, the committee believes it may have made a mistake.

“[We] thought it would strengthen Obama and it didn’t have this effect,” Geil Lundestad told the Associated Press in an interview.

Lundestad, who stepped down last year after 25 years as the non-voting secretary of the secretive committee, noted that Obama was startled by the award and that his staff even investigated whether other winners had skipped the prize ceremony in Oslo.

That has happened only on rare occasions, such as when dissidents were held back by their governments.

"In the White House they quickly realized that they needed to travel to Oslo," Lundestad wrote.

"Even many of Obama's supporters believed that the prize was a mistake," Lundestad wrote in excerpts of the book, the AP reports. "In that sense the committee didn't achieve what it had hoped for."

Lundestad’s book offers a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the committee whose decision-making process is typically shrouded in secrecy. 


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: barack0bama; geillundestad; leftwingnuts; morons; nobel; nobelinstitute; obama; oslo; undeserved
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To: Kaslin

This is the same committee of simpletons that awarded Gorbachev the “Peace” prize for having ended the Cold War but did not recognize Reagan, who was the man who really ended it, solely because they didn’t like his politics. A real sham of a prize from a half-assed organization.


21 posted on 09/17/2015 7:05:42 PM PDT by laconic (M)
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To: gorush

The Nobel committee may have made a mistake? May have made a mistake? Everything connected with their winner has been a mistake since 01/20/09.


22 posted on 09/17/2015 7:10:42 PM PDT by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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To: Steely Tom

After the ridiculous Obama Epoch is over, and the tell-all books are being published, the MSM useful idiots and the “various elites” will be putting distance between themselves and Obama faster than Dale, Jr. at Talladega.


23 posted on 09/17/2015 7:27:32 PM PDT by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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To: JennysCool

You’re way too optimistic. Most of them will never admit that Obama was a terrible failure.

www.gpsdeclassified.com


24 posted on 09/17/2015 7:33:13 PM PDT by Richard from IL
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To: TangoLimaSierra

> I read back then that he was nominated 3 weeks before he took office. Idiots.

Back then the believed he was a god among men. Now they know he’s the Anti-Christ and nothing he touches has anything to do with peace. In fact, just the opposite.


25 posted on 09/17/2015 7:33:58 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: BenLurkin

Darwin Award (immense vacuum exists between those two honking ears, maybe even a black hole)


26 posted on 09/17/2015 7:35:54 PM PDT by fivecatsandadog (Obama is an enemy of the US.)
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To: Richard from IL

When the debacle is over, and publishers (particularly British publishers who revel in this sort of thing) are offering gigantic money for the dirt, there’ll be takers, believe me.


27 posted on 09/17/2015 7:38:35 PM PDT by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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To: Kaslin

I see. They made a mistake. Wrong guy.

So.... is the Nobel Committee saying that all blacks look alike ?


28 posted on 09/17/2015 7:39:29 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Kaslin

Giving Obama the White House was a really really big mistake.


29 posted on 09/17/2015 7:42:04 PM PDT by dforest
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To: JennysCool

That may be true for the Brits. But the NYT still lists Walter Duranty, who covered up the Ukraine terror famine, as a Pulitzer Prize winner.


30 posted on 09/17/2015 7:42:52 PM PDT by Richard from IL
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To: Kaslin

Whoda thunk it?


31 posted on 09/17/2015 7:42:59 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Kaslin

Oh yeah, geniuses? It took you this long to figure it out?


32 posted on 09/17/2015 7:45:05 PM PDT by fidelis (Zonie and USAF Cold Warrior)
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To: Kaslin

Well, duh!


33 posted on 09/17/2015 7:49:05 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Richard from IL

Just one of many NYT useful idjits throughout the years. I’m sure they hire a new one daily.


34 posted on 09/17/2015 7:51:14 PM PDT by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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To: Kaslin

liberals....they are idiots and never understand the consequences of their actions.


35 posted on 09/17/2015 8:19:54 PM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: Kaslin
and Alfred E. Newman is still pi$$ed he didn't win a Nobel when he ran for President!
http://www.ebay.com/sch/sis.html?_nkw=Alfred-E-Neuman-President-Posters-
36 posted on 09/17/2015 8:53:40 PM PDT by M-cubed ( Their hope is to find a way to pick a nominee who, if elected, would actually stay the course the w)
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To: Kaslin

Wait... Didn’t I hear they were thinking of giving President Evil another Nobel Prize?


37 posted on 09/17/2015 10:37:10 PM PDT by Calpublican (Boehner,McConnell,Corker,McCain,Alexander,Hatch,Graham+More=Corrupt)
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To: Leaning Right

[”Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, Yasser Arafat, Mikhail Gorbachev.”]

Al Gore = Really Stupid (despite his brilliant invention of the internet)

Jimmy Carter = Well-meaning but misguided and naïve

Yasser Arafat - Father of Terrorism

Mikhail Gorbachev - Meh.


38 posted on 09/17/2015 10:40:18 PM PDT by Calpublican (Boehner,McConnell,Corker,McCain,Alexander,Hatch,Graham+More=Corrupt)
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To: M-cubed

Well, the Black Alfred E. Newman won.


39 posted on 09/17/2015 10:41:17 PM PDT by Calpublican (Boehner,McConnell,Corker,McCain,Alexander,Hatch,Graham+More=Corrupt)
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To: Calpublican
"What, me worry?"


40 posted on 09/17/2015 11:07:22 PM PDT by fidelis (Zonie and USAF Cold Warrior)
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