On second thought
If he had it to do over again, the former director of Norway’s Nobel Institute says in a new book, President Barack Obama would never have been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace prize.
“[We] thought it would strengthen Obama, and it didn’t have this effect,” Geil Lundestad told The Associated Press. “Even many of Obama’s supporters thought that the prize was a mistake.”
The former director said he and the committee had unanimously decided to grant the award to Obama just after his election in 2009 more in hopes of aiding the president to achieve his goals on nuclear disarmament rather than in recognition of what he had accomplished.
Apparently, the award even took the Obama White House by surprise.