Just As You Already Knew

[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.

  WaPo

A good move? A good MOVE!? Is the Nobel Peace Prize not given as an honor reward? A move, he says? As in a game? A gambit?  This seems to be an admission that the prize committee isn't giving awards for accolades earned, as you might be expected to believe.

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.

So the prize is meaningless after all.  The Nobel Committee intends not to honor merited work but to influence future action.  It's not a prize; it's a bribe.  ($1.4 million to Obama in 2009.)

Following the media interest in Lundestad's memoir, the Norwegian historian called a press conference on Thursday to deny that he had implied that Obama didn't deserve the prize.

Sounds to me like he did.  Well, it wouldn't have been deserved if it meant anything.

Guess who never won the Peace Prize?  Gandhi.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.