They awarded it on the hopes that he would accomplish something. He didn't accomplish any of those things that were outlined.
Geir Lundestad, director of the Nobel Institute for 25 years doesn't agree with you.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...eace-prize-was-not-such-a-good-idea/72396794/
In a just-released book, Geir Lundestad, director of the Nobel Institute for 25 years until stepping down last year, said the prize committee had expected the honor to deliver a boost to Obama, something he believes did not happen.
Speaking to
The Associated Press, Lundestad, who sat in on the secretive committee's meetings but did not have a vote, said the committee "thought it would strengthen Obama and it didn't have this effect."
"In hindsight, we could say that the argument of giving Obama a helping hand was only partially correct," he wrote,
according to
VG, a Norwegian newspaper.
The award, made by the committee in response to Obama's stated aim of ridding the world of nuclear weapons, came nine months after he took office.
"Even many of Obama's supporters believed that the prize was a mistake," Lundestad wrote in "Secretary of Peace. 25 years with the Nobel Prize".
"In that sense the committee didn't achieve what it had hoped for," he said, noting that Obama himself rarely mentions the prize.