Awarding Obama the Peace Prize Was a Mistake

[Serial Brain 9]

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.

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.

It would be of no surprise to anyone to hear this.

Obama was a dismal failure creating division all over the world including the US itself.

An utter disgrace, but to hear him talk around Leftwing Universities about HIMSELF you’d think he was the best President in US history.

What an utter embarrassment.

[sprintcyclist]

in the speech, he was awarded it 'for things he was going to do ......... '

laughable

[Black Orchid]

Being their first black President he could have achieved so much good but instead he left the legacy of being the worst President in history.

[sprintcyclist]

Being their first black President he could have achieved so much good but instead he left the legacy of being the worst President in history.

heroin use surged under him.

unemployment grew as he gave away US industries

[brian ross]

Being their first black President he could have achieved so much good but instead he left the legacy of being the worst President in history.

Oh, I think Nixon beat him by a long shot, Black Orchid. Trump is seriously working to beat even Nixon's legacy...

[The Mechanic]

Obama: Worst President In U.S. History..

Bush was a horrible president. At the time, I thought he was the worst president in American history.

But Obama has made a lot of firsts himself …

For example, Obama:

Has prosecuted more whistleblowers than all other presidents combined

Sentenced whistleblowers to 31 times the jail time of all prior u.s. presidents combined

Prosecuted fewer financial crimes than President Reagan, Clinton or either of the Bush presidents. (As bad as the Bush administration was, they at least prosecuted the heads of Enron, Worldcom and some other white collar crooks. In contrast, Obama hasn’t prosecuted even one high-level Wall Street executive.)

Is the most secretive president ever

Is more hostile to the press than any president in history

Claims the power to strip Americans' liberty in a way that no other president has ever tried to claim ... and that even King George of England didn’t claim. Indeed, Obama has rolled back some of our liberties to the time of the enactment of the Magna Carta in 1215

Has turned America into the most spied upon nation in world history (and see this and this)

Has arguably centralized power more than any other president

Has granted less pardons than any president since Garfield, who served only 200 days as president before being assassinated in 1881

May be the only U.S. president in history who failed to deliver a single year of at least 3% economic growth (when adjusted for inflation)

In addition, Obama has presided over:

The greatest inequality of any president

The first time in its history that America is viewed as the world's greatest threat by the people of the world

One of the largest net changes in debt in American history

Perhaps the most corrupt government ever in the U.S.

And as the New York Times notes this week, Obama has been at war longer than any president in history.

Worst ... president ... ever.

[brian ross]

As against Trump who has openly lied, time and time again about his achievements, past and present.

As against Trump who has claimed impossible facts, time and time again.

As against Trump who has presided over the longest Government shutdown and claimed it was he who caused it...

As against Nixon who was impeached by the Congress and Senate, for "high crimes and misdemeanour’s".

Funny that, hey, Mechie? Tripped up again by reality, hey?

[IQS.RLOW]

Someone should call PETA and report we have an ongoing issue with animal cruelty here.
Sure, the species is not exactly endangered. In fact it's more of a pest and less useful than carp.

However, that is no excuse to wildly fling thousands of moral equivalent red herrings about.

[Serial Brain 9]

Someone should call PETA and report we have an ongoing issue with animal cruelty here.
Sure, the species is not exactly endangered. In fact it's more of a pest and less useful than carp.

However, that is no excuse to wildly fling thousands of moral equivalent red herrings about.

HiIlarious.

I won’t go into the Obama/Clinton crime spree today.

Let’s just keep the Sunshine on the FACT that the people who gave Obama the Pease Prize now admit they got it totally wrong.

Good on them for at least coming forward and putting it on record.