Former Nobel chief: Obama Peace Prize a failure
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/09/18/former-top-nobel-official-says-maybe-obamas-peace-prize-was-not-such-a-good-idea/72396794/
September 18, 2015
Remember that Nobel Peace Prize that President Obama got in 2009? Well, maybe it wasn't such a good idea after all, a former top Nobel official said.
In a just-released book, Geir Lundestad, director of the Nobel Institute for 25 years until stepping down last year, said the prize committee had expected the honor to deliver a boost to Obama, something he believes did not happen.
Speaking to The Associated Press, Lundestad, who sat in on the secretive committee's meetings but did not have a vote, said the committee "thought it would strengthen Obama and it didn't have this effect."
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Following several headlines that said Lundestad thought it was a "mistake" to have awarded the prize to Obama, he called a press conference on Thursday to deny that was what he had implied. "Several of you have written that I believe the prize to Obama a mistake, but then you cannot have read the book," Lundestad told reporters, according to VG. "It says nowhere that it was a mistake to give Obama the Peace Prize."
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Zim: Actually, it was a HUGE mistake to give a Nobel
Peace Prize to someone who had not achieved anything
resembling peace. In hindsight, looking at the mess
in Syria and Iraq . . . Russia in Ukraine . . . China
and the South China Sea . . . Obozo clearly did not
advance 'Peace' in any way shape or form.
Zim.
Mad Poet Strikes Again.
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