To be fair, what did Obama do to deserve the prize? Maybe I missed something, but I remember literally laughing out loud when I first heard that news. Like, he won for campaigning on hope?
The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced the award on October 9, 2009, citing Obama’s promotion of nuclear nonproliferation and a “new climate” in international relations fostered by Obama, especially in reaching out to the Muslim world.
Awarding him the Peace Prize for what exactly? Can they even articulate a reason?
To be fair, what did Obama do to deserve the prize? Maybe I missed something, but I remember literally laughing out loud when I first heard that news. Like, he won for campaigning on hope?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Nobel_Peace_Prize
Essentially it was for the sort of things that the US news media skipped over, because it was about countries that weren’t America.
Basically “not Bush”
Still, if Obama didn’t get one, do you think he’d be whining about it for (checks calendar) the next nearly two decades?