Essentially, it’s not about past achievements, but future implications:

As Francis Sejersted, the chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee in the 1990s, once proudly admitted, “The prize … is not only for past achievement. … The committee also takes the possible positive effects of its choices into account [because] … Nobel wanted the prize to have political effects. Awarding a peace prize is, to put it bluntly, a political act.

This probably will still not satisfy the people who laughed at Obama when Chicago lost the Olympic bid and are now infuriated an American president was internationally recognized. It’s ill will.

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• Obama’s Nobel Prize speech and the necessity of Just War
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• Ain’t No Party Like a Tea Party
• Cooking the Sausage

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