Nobel Secretary: Awarding Obama the Peace Prize Was a Mistake
Ex-Nobel secretary, Geir Lundestad, admits that awarding the committee’s esteemed Peace Prize to Barack Obama in 2009 was a mistake.
A press release at the time announced that Obama had earned the award based on “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” though he had only been in the White House mere weeks when he was nominated. The committee awarded the prize to Obama based entirely on his media popularity, not based on anything he actually did.
Lundestad, aside from admitting that the stunt had proven a failure, revealed the reason behind it wasn’t exactly in keeping with the credibility of the panel or the award, once a symbol of excellence.
The former secretary told the Associated Press that “the committee hoped the award would strengthen Mr. Obama.”
Understanding nearly a decade later that strengthening an American president wasn’t exactly in the committee’s job description, Lundestad voiced some regret.
BBC News – Nobel secretary regrets Obama peace prize https://t.co/JnmE4r9WBL
— Kimberly Guilfoyle (@kimguilfoyle) January 3, 2019
“No Nobel Peace Prize ever elicited more attention than the 2009 prize to Barack Obama,” Lundestad writes in his memoir.
“Even many of Obama’s supporters believed that the prize was a mistake,” he adds. “In that sense, the committee didn’t achieve what it had hoped for.”
Obama expanded and continued war and tensions across the globe
While it’s good to hear Lundestad admit the Obama Peace Prize was a mistake, it isn’t simply because the committee wasn’t able to strengthen his presidency that made it so.
The real reason is that they awarded a prize for peace to a man who had no diplomatic achievements, would allow terrorism to flourish throughout the Middle East, and who would become the longest wartime president in history, expanding war into several countries like Libya and Syria.
The committee at the time wrote, “Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world’s attention and given its people hope for a better future.”
That ‘better future’ didn’t quite pan out. A report in November of 2015 indicated that terrorism-related deaths had more than quadrupled since Obama took office, actually peaking in 2014.
America, Rolling Stone reported, had been at war under Obama “longer than under George W. Bush — or any other U.S. president, for that matter,” and that over 2,500 Americans had died in Afghanistan and Iraq by May of 2016.
Peace wasn’t exactly Obama’s strength.
The failed former president is no longer pictured in the section titled “Featured laureates” on the Nobel website, reserved for such individuals as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mother Teresa.
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John says:
January 6, 2019 at 8:14 pm
Obama being Obama had to know that he hadn’t done anything to earn the Nobel Peace Prized yet he accepted it anyway
dylee36 says:
January 6, 2019 at 7:59 pm
Right or wrong, he recd it and its over. Although Im not an Obama supporter, this going backward to discredit the giving of the Nobel Peace Prize to Obama is not right. It cheapens the merit of the prize. He won it, let it be.
grumpyoldman says:
January 6, 2019 at 7:08 pm
To bad he doesn’t get a prize for being the most stupid of all, after making the Nobel prize a mockery of the world.
Frank says:
January 6, 2019 at 6:10 pm
Give the useless person 4 million dollars for doing nothing, less than nothing and fanning the flames of Jihadi extremism – DOH!!!!!
What an admission just way way way too late and no promise they won;t give some useful idiot infidel more money to promote Islam as the next great thing on the way to integration globalism social-Islamoism, gag. Just cut my head off like Nancy Pelosi’s daughter says to do unto Trump.
riverside says:
January 6, 2019 at 5:47 pm
Due to the propriety and eternal effects of the “Beer Summit”, he was a shoe-in.
Angelika says:
January 6, 2019 at 5:39 pm
I thought soros BOUGHT the prize for him….????
Bill says:
January 6, 2019 at 5:31 pm
As El Rushbo said BO was awarded the prize on the come. He had done nothing to earn it much as he’d won the Presidency without ever doing anything except being a rabble rouser, or more PC version, Community Organizer. Voting present most of his Legislative career, and digging up trash on political opponents is not Nobel worthy!
My Cut ☺ says:
January 6, 2019 at 4:58 pm
I have always said he did nothing to get that award. The only reason he got it is he was the first black president.
K says:
January 6, 2019 at 4:52 pm
the entire 8 year o-bungle horror show was a mistake. the “prize” simply ‘highlighted’ it.
wife of RET/DAV/USA
Angelika says:
January 6, 2019 at 5:44 pm
I DIDN’T know that obozo had “strength”…WHEN, WHERE, HOW….??? Oh, strong in FLAPPING his lips, giving EMPTY, HOLLOW speeches…???? Yeah, THAT’s WHAT it was……!!!!
Richard says:
January 6, 2019 at 4:52 pm
Well, well will wonders never cease.
carolanno says:
January 6, 2019 at 4:39 pm
Hillary Clinton actually said one thing that was absolutely true during her run for Dem. Presidential nominee against Obama. She accurately stated that Obama “Gives a good speech.” That is the extent of his achievements.
CapnJackSB says:
January 6, 2019 at 4:33 pm
Kind of confirms what we thought all along.
bep777 says:
January 6, 2019 at 4:20 pm
Obama supported the Muslim brotherhood in overthrowing Egyptian president Mubarak, Gaddafi and instigated the Syrian war resulting in the ISIS caliphate. He supported and financed Iranian interventions in Yemen and Syria. He attempted to arm the Syrian rebels resulting in the attack on Bengazi and the death of ambassador Stevens and three others.
Nick says:
January 4, 2019 at 8:15 pm
This was an absolutely disgusting event
Nathan says:
January 3, 2019 at 6:19 pm
Well, you certainly lost your credibility and compromised your integrity. But, then again, the Nobel Peace Prize has been a joke for years, especially since Arafat.
https://thepoliticalinsider.com/nobel-secreta...calinsider
Ex-Nobel secretary, Geir Lundestad, admits that awarding the committee’s esteemed Peace Prize to Barack Obama in 2009 was a mistake.
A press release at the time announced that Obama had earned the award based on “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” though he had only been in the White House mere weeks when he was nominated. The committee awarded the prize to Obama based entirely on his media popularity, not based on anything he actually did.
Lundestad, aside from admitting that the stunt had proven a failure, revealed the reason behind it wasn’t exactly in keeping with the credibility of the panel or the award, once a symbol of excellence.
The former secretary told the Associated Press that “the committee hoped the award would strengthen Mr. Obama.”
Understanding nearly a decade later that strengthening an American president wasn’t exactly in the committee’s job description, Lundestad voiced some regret.
BBC News – Nobel secretary regrets Obama peace prize https://t.co/JnmE4r9WBL
— Kimberly Guilfoyle (@kimguilfoyle) January 3, 2019
“No Nobel Peace Prize ever elicited more attention than the 2009 prize to Barack Obama,” Lundestad writes in his memoir.
“Even many of Obama’s supporters believed that the prize was a mistake,” he adds. “In that sense, the committee didn’t achieve what it had hoped for.”
Obama expanded and continued war and tensions across the globe
While it’s good to hear Lundestad admit the Obama Peace Prize was a mistake, it isn’t simply because the committee wasn’t able to strengthen his presidency that made it so.
The real reason is that they awarded a prize for peace to a man who had no diplomatic achievements, would allow terrorism to flourish throughout the Middle East, and who would become the longest wartime president in history, expanding war into several countries like Libya and Syria.
The committee at the time wrote, “Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world’s attention and given its people hope for a better future.”
That ‘better future’ didn’t quite pan out. A report in November of 2015 indicated that terrorism-related deaths had more than quadrupled since Obama took office, actually peaking in 2014.
America, Rolling Stone reported, had been at war under Obama “longer than under George W. Bush — or any other U.S. president, for that matter,” and that over 2,500 Americans had died in Afghanistan and Iraq by May of 2016.
Peace wasn’t exactly Obama’s strength.
The failed former president is no longer pictured in the section titled “Featured laureates” on the Nobel website, reserved for such individuals as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mother Teresa.
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16 Comments
John says:
January 6, 2019 at 8:14 pm
Obama being Obama had to know that he hadn’t done anything to earn the Nobel Peace Prized yet he accepted it anyway
dylee36 says:
January 6, 2019 at 7:59 pm
Right or wrong, he recd it and its over. Although Im not an Obama supporter, this going backward to discredit the giving of the Nobel Peace Prize to Obama is not right. It cheapens the merit of the prize. He won it, let it be.
grumpyoldman says:
January 6, 2019 at 7:08 pm
To bad he doesn’t get a prize for being the most stupid of all, after making the Nobel prize a mockery of the world.
Frank says:
January 6, 2019 at 6:10 pm
Give the useless person 4 million dollars for doing nothing, less than nothing and fanning the flames of Jihadi extremism – DOH!!!!!
What an admission just way way way too late and no promise they won;t give some useful idiot infidel more money to promote Islam as the next great thing on the way to integration globalism social-Islamoism, gag. Just cut my head off like Nancy Pelosi’s daughter says to do unto Trump.
riverside says:
January 6, 2019 at 5:47 pm
Due to the propriety and eternal effects of the “Beer Summit”, he was a shoe-in.
Angelika says:
January 6, 2019 at 5:39 pm
I thought soros BOUGHT the prize for him….????
Bill says:
January 6, 2019 at 5:31 pm
As El Rushbo said BO was awarded the prize on the come. He had done nothing to earn it much as he’d won the Presidency without ever doing anything except being a rabble rouser, or more PC version, Community Organizer. Voting present most of his Legislative career, and digging up trash on political opponents is not Nobel worthy!
My Cut ☺ says:
January 6, 2019 at 4:58 pm
I have always said he did nothing to get that award. The only reason he got it is he was the first black president.
K says:
January 6, 2019 at 4:52 pm
the entire 8 year o-bungle horror show was a mistake. the “prize” simply ‘highlighted’ it.
wife of RET/DAV/USA
Angelika says:
January 6, 2019 at 5:44 pm
I DIDN’T know that obozo had “strength”…WHEN, WHERE, HOW….??? Oh, strong in FLAPPING his lips, giving EMPTY, HOLLOW speeches…???? Yeah, THAT’s WHAT it was……!!!!
Richard says:
January 6, 2019 at 4:52 pm
Well, well will wonders never cease.
carolanno says:
January 6, 2019 at 4:39 pm
Hillary Clinton actually said one thing that was absolutely true during her run for Dem. Presidential nominee against Obama. She accurately stated that Obama “Gives a good speech.” That is the extent of his achievements.
CapnJackSB says:
January 6, 2019 at 4:33 pm
Kind of confirms what we thought all along.
bep777 says:
January 6, 2019 at 4:20 pm
Obama supported the Muslim brotherhood in overthrowing Egyptian president Mubarak, Gaddafi and instigated the Syrian war resulting in the ISIS caliphate. He supported and financed Iranian interventions in Yemen and Syria. He attempted to arm the Syrian rebels resulting in the attack on Bengazi and the death of ambassador Stevens and three others.
Nick says:
January 4, 2019 at 8:15 pm
This was an absolutely disgusting event
Nathan says:
January 3, 2019 at 6:19 pm
Well, you certainly lost your credibility and compromised your integrity. But, then again, the Nobel Peace Prize has been a joke for years, especially since Arafat.
https://thepoliticalinsider.com/nobel-secreta...calinsider
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