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'Can I have a Peace Prize too?' Nobel committee mocked for awarding 'good at killing people' president

A new book by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann has quoted President Obama in 2012 telling his advisers in reference to drone strikes that he’s “really good at killing people.”

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Is this the Peace Prize recipient the Nobel committee expected?

https://twitter.com/DicksTrash/status/397172260068282368

This is what happens when a decision is based on future expectations rather than past performance. The Nobel committee’s choice in 2009 was not unlike Congress and the president passing a massive law without reading it to find out what’s in it, which happened the following year.

https://twitter.com/deblessings/status/397091616688578560

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The Nobel Prize committee isn’t expected to rescind Barack Obama’s Peace Prize, perhaps because they’re trying to decide if they should give Kathleen Sebelius a Nobel Prize in Medicine for the design of HealthCare.gov.