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Title: Nobel panel saw Obama peace prize as ‘mistake,’ new book claims
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Washington Times
URL Source: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news ... -peace-prize-mistake-new-book/
Published: Sep 16, 2015
Author: Mehgen Bartlett
Post Date: 2015-09-16 21:22:15 by cranky
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Comments: 19
US President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Barack Obama, right recieves his medal and diploma from the the Chairman of the Nobel committee Thorbjorn Jagland, left at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony at City Hall in Oslo
The former director of Norway’s Nobel Institute revealed this week that he regrets the committee’s decision to give the 2009 Nobel Peace award to President Obama.
Geil Lundestad, director at the institute for 25 years, said in his just-published memoir that he and the committee had unanimously decided to grant the award to Mr. Obama just after his election in 2009 more in hopes of aiding the American president to achieve his goals on nuclear disarmament, rather than in recognition of what Mr. Obama had already accomplished.
Looking back over Mr. Obama’s presidency, Mr. Lundestad said, granting him the award did not fulfill the committee’s expectations.
“[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. (1 image)
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Nobel panel saw Obama peace prize as ‘mistake,’
An "enormous blunder" is more like it. The prestige of the Nobel prize has certainly been damaged. Admitting the error would be a first step in making things right.
#2. To: Pinguinite (#1)
Admitting the error would be a first step in making things right.
Nope.
потому что Бог хочет это тот путь
#3. To: cranky (#0) (Edited)
It was given to him for reasons that would be popularly interpreted as certification of past accomplishments and received by him in supreme recognition and certification of past accomplishments. Having been falsely anoited, he put on his newly conferred crown and ran with it.
#4. To: cranky (#0) (Edited)
The former director of Norway’s Nobel Institute revealed this week that he regrets the committee’s decision to give the 2009 Nobel Peace award to President Obama.
That ain't nothing.
Americans actually elected the SOB.
TWICE!
OK,OK SOME of the voters were Americans. Some were even dead.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
#5. To: Pinguinite (#1)
The prestige of the Nobel prize has certainly been damaged.
After giving it to Jim-Mah Carter,they could only go sideways or up,because there ain't nothing lower than the bottom.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
#6. To: cranky (#0) (Edited)
It is fundamentally irrational to give an award for things that you hope someone else will someday accomplish.
"Here's your award. Now go earn it!"
#7. To: TooConservative (#6)
Maybe they hoped he'd stop following in Bush/Cheney's war mongering ways.
They were wrong.
#8. To: sneakypete (#4)
That ain't nothing.Americans actually elected the SOB.
Americans have elected a pile of them. They never learn. They elect the smoothest loudmouths and liars they can find without thinking.
#9. To: rlk (#8)
Americans have elected a pile of them. They never learn. They elect the smoothest loudmouths and liars they can find without thinking.
Yup. Seems like all the typical voter cares about is voting for anybody that tells them what they want to hear,and they don't give a damn if the one they voted for does what he says or not,as long as he says it.
Having "presidential hair" helps with the wimmins vote,too.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
#10. To: TooConservative (#6)
It is fundamentally irrational to give an award for things that you hope someone else will someday accomplish."Here's your award. Now go earn it!"
Don't knock it. It's how he got a Harvard law degree.
Actually,it seems to be the philosophy of the whole American school system now. They graduate everybody so that nobody ever sufferes from low self-esteem. Not even the people that SHOULD suffer from low self-esteem 24/7.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
#11. To: Pinguinite (#1)
The prestige of the Nobel prize has certainly been damaged.
They've been a joke for awhile now...
#12. To: sneakypete (#10)
Not even the people that SHOULD suffer from low self-esteem 24/7.
One of the professors should have told his ass the very first day he was there, "Mr Obama, or whatever your real name is, you need to take your ass back to Afrika if you know whats good for you"...
#13. To: Pinguinite (#1)
The prestige of the Nobel prize has certainly been damaged.
Damaged?
Utterly destroyed, in my opinion.
There are three kinds of people in the world: those that can add and those that can't
#14. To: CZ82 (#12)
"Mr Obama, or whatever your real name is, you need to take your ass back to Afrika if you know whats good for you"...
Africans wouldn't take him. They have nothing but contempt for American blacks.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
#15. To: cranky (#0)
I was thinking about this just yesterday how this POS worthless so-called president did nothing and somehow people were fools enough to award him a peace prize....... NUT JOBS!!!
#16. To: Pinguinite, cranky (#1)
The prestige of the Nobel prize has certainly been damaged. Admitting the error would be a first step in making things right.
The list of Nobel Peace Prize winners have about as much to do with peace as a Peacekeeper missile. Some, such as Mother Teresa (1979) or Malala (2014) may qualify for a humanitarian award, but a Peace prize?
And then there are the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (2013); the European Union (2012); Obama (2009); Al Gore (2007); IAEA (2005); Jimmy Carter (2002); the UN (2001); Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin (1994); United Nations Peacekeeping Forces (1988); Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (1981); Amnesty International (1977); Henry A. Kissinger and Le Duc Tho (1973).
The people making these awards are brain damaged.
#17. To: nolu chan (#16)
Thanks for the reminder. I had forgotten all about their giving a peace prize to the EU. I stand corrected.
I suppose if the entire European population was invited to the awards ceremony and banquet, some good came out of it.
#18. To: sneakypete (#14)
They have nothing but contempt for American blacks.
It's been that way for quite sometime, in fact just as long as I can remember...
#19. To: nolu chan (#16)
The people making these awards are brain damaged.
With overly developed egos.
But just look at how much Clinton wants one. He had his flacks lobby those clowns for years just to get one.
There are three kinds of people in the world: those that can add and those that can't
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