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Sunday, October 9, 2016

Seven Years Ago This Week: Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize

by Jim Geraghty The Associated Press reports that the Nobel Prize Committee is starting to wonder about their choice for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, President Obama.........I’ll let Jay Nordlinger, the real expert on the Nobel Peace Prize around here, offer a fuller assessment, but this seems to me to be one of the more thorough beclownings of the committee in recent memory.

Obama had been president for a whole two weeks when the nominations were closed for that year. It was a rare Peace Prize given for “potential,” instead of an actual accomplishment in attempting to secure peace.    You don’t give the Most Valuable Player award to a rookie before the season starts..... Read more
 

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