[Maverick68]

Forget the question “how did he win the Nobel Prize”, I’m still wondering how the f.. he won the PRESIDENCY!

[azkathy]

I knew the Nobel Peace Prize was nothing more than a paper weight when they gave it to Al Gore instead of Irena Sendler.

Irena Sendlerowa - Courage and valor
Irena Sendler, born in 1910, was raised by her Catholic parents to respect and love people regardless of their ethnicity or social status. Her father, a physician, died from typhus that he contracted during an epidemic in 1917.

He was the only doctor in his town near Warsaw who would treat the poor, mostly Jewish victims of this tragic disease. As he was dying, he told 7-year-old Irena, “If you see someone drowning you must try to rescue them, even if you cannot swim.”

In 1939 the Nazis swept through Poland and imprisoned the Jews in ghettos where they were first starved to death and then systematically murdered in killing camps.

Irena, by than a social worker in Warsaw, saw the Jewish people drowning and resolved to do what she could to rescue as many as possible, especially the children.

Working with a network of other social workers and brave Poles, mostly women, she smuggled 2,500 children out of the Warsaw ghetto and hid them safely until the end of the war.

The prize doesn’t always go to the most deserving!!!

http://www.irenasendler.org/default.asp

Could someone please post the picture of Irena Sendler on this thread?

[azkathy]

You are correct and that is a great observation!

[Freedom56v2]

Forget the question “how did he win the Nobel Prize”, I’m still wondering how the f.. he won the PRESIDENCY!

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Best post of morning....how could they say he did anything when he had only been in office for a few weeks when nominations closed—not that he did anything since, but none of it makes any logical sense.