fullspinzoo

Nobel Peace Prize Panel member, Geil Lundestad makes a Bombshell admission that the Peace Prize back in 2009 was a misguided idea and based on their hopes rather than any concrete evidence. Ya think? Well, there goes the credibility of that award.

CowboyMilt

I & probably millions of other Americans have wondered about that.

fullspinzoo

I wondered about this from the get go. He had not been in office long enough to have a "Beer Summit" no less to use foreign policy in a good way. In fact after that, I thought he was the worst, creating a vacuum, not being able to even contain ISIS, leading from behind. I actually forgot about this ill conceived award for Obama.

Mel Havener

It was good of you to admit it but should you still remain in that position now to pic any one else?

Some of you had hope's but, most of us had many doubts and they proved true. A bigger waist of good air he sucks in and the office space he is wondering around in is a true use of abuse for sure.
Mel Havener

jelun

Sort of a misleading title and post, isn't it?
Not surprising when you consider that you couldn't even get the name of the secretary correct.
Bombshell admission. It is apparent why you didn't include a link.

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In a break with Nobel tradition, the former secretary of the Nobel Peace Prize committee says that the 2009 award to President Barack Obama failed to live up to the panel's expectations.
Geir Lundestad writes in a book to be released on Thursday that the committee had expected the prize to boost Obama. Instead the award was met with fierce criticism in the US, where many argued Obama had not been president long enough to have an impact thats worthy of winning of winning a Nobel Prize.
"Even many of Obama's supporters believed that the prize was a mistake," Lundestad wrote in excerpts of the book read by The Associated Press. "In that sense the committee didn't achieve what it had hoped for."

Lundestad, who stepped down last year after 25 years as the non-v****g secretary of the secretive committee, noted that Obama was startled by the award and that his staff even investigated whether other winners had skipped the prize ceremony in Oslo. That has happened only on rare occasions, such as when dissidents were held back by their governments.
"In the White House they quickly realized that they needed to travel to Oslo," Lundestad wrote.
On Wednesday, Lundestad said that he didn't disagree with the decision to award the president, but the committee "thought it would strengthen Obama and it didn't have this effect."
It is rare for Nobel officials to discuss the proceedings of the secretive committee or publicly criticize each other. But in the book Lundestad also fired a parting shot at Thorbjorn Jagland who was the committee chairman for six years and is now a regular member. Lundestad said that as a former Norwegian prime minister and sitting head of the Council of Europe human rights organization, Jagland should never have been appointed to the committee, which frequently emphasizes its independence.
Jagland declined to say anything, said Daniel Holtgen, his spokesman at the Council of Europe.
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http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/geir-lundestad-nobel-peace-prize-didnt-boost-obama/1/476916.html

http://triblive.com/usworld/world/9104787-74/obama-committee-lundestad#axzz3m5Z2o5tj

buffalo Loc: Texas

Ya reckon? They aren't taken as seriously as they were prior to the mooslime in chief.

sissymary

For decades now the NPP has been an utter joke. It's all political. Run by ultra liberals.

jelun

He isn't admitting anything. The committee acted and continues to act within the parameters set.
Not to mention that HE, Geir, was a non-v****g secretary and was not reporting on his actions but speaking out on what he witnessed. So there is no honor his report, just backbiting.
He has retired, so basically, we know who is really a waste of space, don't we?

3jack

Excellent factual rebuttal to what was already known to be utter BS by most of us. :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

dwallace2015

If the Nobel prize commission had any honor or integrity, they would commit mass suicide, in shame of giving the prize to someone like Obama.