This revelation is rather embarrassing.
Obama didn't exactly win the Nobel Peace Prize in a landslide. In fact, he didn't even manage to get a majority at first.
From AFP:
Three of the five members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee had objections to the Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to US President Barack Obama, the Norwegian tabloid Verdens Gang (VG) reported Thursday.
"VG has spoken to a number of sources who confirmed the impression that a majority of the Nobel committee, at first, had not decided to give the peace prize to Barack Obama," the newspaper said.
..."The committee was unanimous," its influential secretary Geir Lundestad told AFP on Friday.
But Inger-Marie Ytterhorn, who represented the right-wing populist Progress Party on the committee, led the way in objecting to the choice of Obama because she questioned his ability to keep his promises, the newspaper said.
It also said the representative of the Conservative Party, Kaci Kullmann Five, and Aagot Valle, the representative of the Socialist Left, had objections.
The choice for Obama was however strongly supported by committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland and Sissel Roenbeck, both representatives of the Labour Party.
I suppose this isn't unusual.
I suspect there's often disagreement among committee members.
What's embarrassing is that Geir Lundestad was so misleading, saying on Friday that the decision to award Obama the prize was unanimous.
Obama owes Jagland big-time.
"Mr. Obama, president of the world, may I have your autograph? I think you're dreamy!"
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