Obamas was explicitly given as a hope for the future The committee "thought it would strengthen Obama and it didn't have this effect", Lundestad told the A

Obamas was explicitly given as a hope for the future The committee "thought it would strengthen Obama and it didn't have this effect", Lundestad told the Associated Press, though he fell short of calling the award a mistake.[145] "In hindsight, we could say that the argument of giving Obama a helping hand was only partially correct", Lundestad wrote. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_controversies#2009_2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_controversies#2009...