Well, of course, Obama got the prize for doing nothing. So truly screwing up and scrambling to save face, which is what he did with Syria, has to earn it.
Via WFB:
State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf appeared to take some credit on behalf of John Kerry for the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons receiving the Nobel Peace Prize Friday.
Kerry’s apparently off-the-cuff remarks in September about Syria potentially avoiding a U.S. strike by turning over its chemical weapons to the international community turned out to be the impetus to an eventual solution, and the White House claimed it was all part of a larger plan. Russia, a strong ally of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, brokered the deal under which Syria would allow its entire stockpile to be destroyed or removed by next year.
“It was an off-the-cuff remark based on conversations we’ve been having internally,” Harf said. “So I think that — you know, then other folks picked up the ball and ran with it, and we had an obligation to see where it would go, and we are where we are today.