Print Friendly Above photo: Obama’s prize fell short of hopes. Oslo, Norway – The effect of giving the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize to U.S. President Barack Obama fell short of the nominating committee’s hopes, and several awards in the past 25 years were even more questionable, the committee’s former secretary says in a new book. Geir Lundestad, lifting a […]
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Ex-Nobel committee exec regrets Obama Peace Prize
September 17th, 2015 Awake Goy
While it is quite rare for Nobel officials to openly discuss the nuts and bolts of their secretive committee, the former director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute has apparently owned up in his memoir ‘Secretary of Peace’, to be released on Thursday, that the panel had expected the award to somewhat challenge Obama, who received […]