Post by Daniel on Sept 18, 2015 10:52:45 GMT -5
Nobel Prize Director Admits Obama Award Was a Mistake
By Ari Yashar
9/17/2015
The former Director of the Nobel Institute for 25 years wrote in a memoir released Wednesday that the decision in 2009 to give then newly elected US President Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize and over $1 million was a mistake.
In his memoir "Secretary of Peace: 25 Years with the Nobel Prize," Geir Lundestad wrote that the idea behind the unanimous decision of the five-member Norwegian Nobel Committee to give Obama the prize was to encourage him to achieve his goals, according to Norway's The Local.
But in his memoir, Lundestad said Obama's actions since then proved that decision to be flawed, writing: "in hindsight, we could say that the argument of giving Obama a helping hand was only partially correct."
Lundestad, who stepped down in 2014 from the committee, wrote that Obama himself said at the time that he was "surprised" by the prize.
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By Ari Yashar
9/17/2015
The former Director of the Nobel Institute for 25 years wrote in a memoir released Wednesday that the decision in 2009 to give then newly elected US President Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize and over $1 million was a mistake.
In his memoir "Secretary of Peace: 25 Years with the Nobel Prize," Geir Lundestad wrote that the idea behind the unanimous decision of the five-member Norwegian Nobel Committee to give Obama the prize was to encourage him to achieve his goals, according to Norway's The Local.
But in his memoir, Lundestad said Obama's actions since then proved that decision to be flawed, writing: "in hindsight, we could say that the argument of giving Obama a helping hand was only partially correct."
Lundestad, who stepped down in 2014 from the committee, wrote that Obama himself said at the time that he was "surprised" by the prize.
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www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/200781
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