Ishmael started this discussion 10 years ago#56,265
An article in Yahoo news gushed on about 0scumbucket's last 100 days and his Nobel prize among other "accomplishments"(sic)
0sleaszball caught a lot of flak when he was given the Nobel Prize in 2009. Even some of his supporters thought that the award was a little over the top, if not premature. After all, Obama hadn’t really accomplished anything up to that point. Previously he was a community organizer and a state Senator who accomplished Nothing and rarely showed up for work, and had only been president for a few months. What had he actually done to earn the award?
It turns out, the reasons for the award were as absurd as many of Obama’s opponents had asserted at the time. Geir Lundestad, the former director of the Nobel Institute, recently wrote a memoir of his career and revealed the real reason for Obama’s prize. Apparently the award was an attempt to strengthen and encourage Obama (in light of his calls to limit the proliferation of nuclear weapons at the time), though he doesn’t think it had the desired effect since many of his supporters criticized the award. “In retrospect, we could say that the argument of giving Obama a helping hand was only partially correct.” He further added that “As such, it did not achieve what the committee had hoped for.”
Since 0numbnuts virtually guaranteed that the biggest financer and supplier of Islamic Terrorism will be armed with Nuclear weapons And helped finance those efforts, I would say the Nobel committee was more than overly optimistic.
We can add to that the FACT that 0bama was instrumental in the over throw of Four middle eastern government that were friendly or benign to the united states in supporting Muslim fundamentalist rebellions "the Arab Spring" and committed the U.S. Military to an active part in toppling one of those regimes resulting in a U.S. ambassador being murdered and three American heroes being killed.
So remind me, WHY do they call it the "Peace Prize" again???
But essentially, the Nobel Institute can now hand out awards to people they think will have the potential to do great things, instead of giving them to people who have actually done great things.
I think I'll write a litter to the Nobel Prize committee and tell them I plan on curing cancer one of these day. I could use an extra $ million.