This would be funny if it weren’t so stupid. Oh, who are we kidding? This is hilarious:
Obama’s Nobel peace prize didn’t have the desired effect, former Nobel official reveals http://t.co/1Jl8YEGgc2
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 17, 2015
Oh. Man.
A former director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute has acknowledged that, in hindsight, he’s not so sure if giving the prize to Obama was a good move either.
In a new memoir titled “Secretary of Peace: 25 years with the Nobel Prize,” Geir Lundestad, the non-voting Director of the Nobel Institute until 2014, writes that he has developed doubts about the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s decision to grant Obama the Nobel Peace Prize over the past six years. While the prize was designed to encourage the new president, it may have not have worked out as intended.
“In retrospect, we could say that the argument of giving Obama a helping hand was only partially correct,” Lundestad writes, according to VG newspaper. Lundestad explains that it became impossible for Obama to live up to the high expectations placed upon him. “Many of Obama’s supporters believed it was a mistake,” he writes. “As such, it did not achieve what the committee had hoped for.”
Oh yeah. Poor President Obama. The prize just put too much pressure on him, you guys!
@washingtonpost it's kinda weird how he accepted it… like what on earth did he think it was for
— Christian ᛭ (@CDcaritas) September 17, 2015
Maybe the Nobel Committee should brush up on how prizes work before awarding any more.
https://twitter.com/Tark31/status/644654340196581376
@washingtonpost @mradamtaylor never understood that: win a prize for something that you may or may not do!
— rodrigo felicio (@rodrigoff2014) September 17, 2015
https://twitter.com/Overtouched/status/644654303899049988
A colossal joke. If anyone needs us, we’ll be over here, clutching our aching sides.
https://twitter.com/Heminator/status/644654381883895808
https://twitter.com/Tark31/status/644654483515965441
@washingtonpost @mradamtaylor bahahahahahahahahahaha!
— S Achtor (@Swachtor) September 17, 2015
Note to the Nobel Committee:
@washingtonpost Always a dumb idea to award someone before they actually do anything.
— SJHughes (@sjhughes_fla) September 17, 2015
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