The ultra-liberal is famous for choosing targeted environmentalists and political activists and flat-out terrorists who have nothing to do with peace. The stellar list includes Yasser Arafat, Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, the International Panel on Climate Change, the Euro Union, the UN and many people who would leave you scratching your head regarding peace in the world connections.
In a new memoir titled “Secretary of Peace: 25 years with the Nobel Prize,” Geir Lundestad, the non-voting Director of the Nobel Institute until 2014, writes that he has developed doubts about the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s decision to grant Obama the Nobel Peace Prize over the past six years. While the prize was designed to encourage the new president, it may have not have worked out as intended.
“In retrospect, we could say that the argument of giving Obama a helping hand was only partially correct,” Lundestad writes, according to VG newspaper. Lundestad explains that it became impossible for Obama to live up to the high expectations placed upon him. “Many of Obama’s supporters believed it was a mistake,” he writes. “As such, it did not achieve what the committee had hoped for.”
So, they gave him the prize in the hopes that he might live up to his baseless rhetoric.
According to Lundestad’s account, the White House even tried to find a way for Obama to avoid the ceremony, though the Nobel Committee warned it that recipients of the prize were only allowed to avoid the ceremony in exceptional circumstances.
Following the media interest in Lundestad’s memoir, the Norwegian historian called a press conference on Thursday to deny that he had implied that Obama didn’t deserve the prize. “Several of you have written that I believe the prize to Obama a mistake, but then you cannot have read the book,” Lundestad told the assembled reporters, according to VG. “It says nowhere that it was a mistake to give Obama the Peace Prize.”
Lundestad’s book also contained a number of other controversial passages, including some criticism of the committee’s former chairman Thorbjørn Jagland and revealing that Norway’s foreign minister Jonas Gahr Store had tried and failed to prevent the committee awarding the prize to a Chinese dissident in 2010.
Obama may be one of the most controversial recent winners of the Nobel peace prize, but he is far from the first. Famously, Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi never won the prize despite being nominated multiple times. Lundestad himself later said it was the Nobel’s “greatest omission.”
Source:Washington Post
Hey, Barry was black and hated the US. What’s not to like about him. Plus there’s always the “Slavery Reparations”. So he definitely deserves SOME kind of award. What not the Nobel? Next year, we can give him the Pulitzer for no damn good reason.
Obummer is absolutely unworthy of anything but a jail sentence!!!
He did nothing but demoralize America and make it a laughing stock to the world . There’s more separation between people and between him and Hillary they almost destroyed the country !
He absolutely had not done anything to deserve it. It was a horse laugh all around.
Isn’t the Nobel prize supposed to be a reward for ACHIEVEMENT?
And later, he waged multiple covert wars, not approved by Congress, that fucked up the Middle East even more than it already was.
Most Americans (including me) were only peripherally aware of these wars and why they were—ostensibly—being fought. Most were and still are unaware of the effects and consequences of these wars. Someone knowledgeable should write a book about them!
Save money in the future. With the Obscumbo curse attached to the NP, simply hand out a can of beer!!!
Thats all that p***k was worth!!
Ten years ago, I sent three text to the Nobel Committee asking for the name(s) of the nominator(s) that nominated such a jerk who had done nothing to deserve such an honor. After the third communication with the committee, I finally received a communication back that that information is held confidential for 10 years before information could be released. Never have gotten an answer.
In the United States, we are feeling the aftermath of the Obama adminstration.
Successful in his goal, Barack Obama has divided our nation. If we continue on the path we are on, there will be a civil war in our nation.
Sadly, Mr. Lundestad was fooled like so many others by Obama’s smooth talk and lies. It’s that simple.
the truth never came out of Obama or Biden’s mouth for many years.
Give the prize to Obama? We’re not even sure he’s a legitimate president! Just ask his brother, he’ll tell you..