Thorbjorn Jagland, chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, said today that President Obama “really ought to consider” returning his Nobel Peace Prize Medal immediately, including the “really nice” case it came in.
Jagland, flanked by the other four members of the Committee, said they’d never before asked for the return of a Peace Prize, “even from a damnable war-criminal like Kissinger,” but that the 10% drawdown in US troops in Afghanistan the President announced last week capped a period of “non-Peace-Prize-winner-type behavior” in 2011. “Guantanamo’s still open. There’s bombing Libya. There’s blowing bin Laden away rather than putting him on trial. Now a few US troops go home, but the US will be occupying Afghanistan until 2014 and beyond. Don’t even get me started on Yemen!”
The Committee awarded Obama the coveted prize in 2009 after he made a series of speeches in the first months of his presidency, which convinced the Peace Prize Committee that he was: “creating a new climate of…multilateral diplomacy…an emphasis on the role of the United Nations…of dialogue and negotiations as instruments for resolving international conflicts…and a vision of world free of nuclear arms.”
“Boy oh boy!” added Jagland. “Did we regret that press release!”
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9 comments:
They screwed up giving him one in the first place
Wow, someone is actually admitting they regret getting behind Obama.....
For real 11:10. Goes to show what a bunch of "Happy Larrys" are on the prize committees. All obama had done by 2009 (besides run his mouth) was scam people in low income areas of Chicago and make them believe that they had the means to become homeowners.
You people do realize this is a satirical "news" piece, right?
11:46 here and yes 12:13 I knew this was satire as soon as I got to the ""really nice" case it came in" part.
I used to envy those persons who won the Peace Prize, but since Obama won it, I no longer have faith in the decision making process, and the qualifications.
All kidding aside Obama should return the Noble Peace Prize.
All kidding aside Obama should return the Noble Peace Prize.
February 20, 2013 at 1:49 PM
I'd be willing to let him keep it, if he would return the presidency.
the nobel peace committee/prize has no credability anyway. who cares.
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