Posted on 10/12/2010 6:11:10 PM PDT by jazusamo
The contrast between the Nobel Committee's choice for its Peace Prize a year ago and today couldn't be more stark. In 2009, the Norwegian group tapped President Obama for its prestigious award. On Friday, they chose a genuine hero: Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.
Mr. Obama was nominated within days of taking office, and the committee ridiculously claimed it awarded him the prize not for his accomplishments, but for the promise of what he might achieve. Mr. Liu was selected "for his long and nonviolent struggle for fundamental human rights in China." Such is the distinction between style and substance.
Mr. Obama has performed on the world stage with an audience of billions. Mr. Liu's stage is a lonely Chinese prison cell, where he's serving an 11-year sentence for his role as co-author of "Charter 08," a human rights manifesto published to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 2008.
The son of a soldier, Mr. Liu began yearning for freedom as a university student in the 1970s, when young Chinese reacted against the government-orchestrated chaos of the previous decade's Cultural Revolution.
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What did he get that award for exactly??
There has never been, even with algor, a more hideous choice for a prize that is supposed to mean something. There were nominees who deserved it when the wretch Obama got it.
At least the lefties had sense not to give it to him again....
There was a mixup...Hussein Dunham was awarded the noball appease prize.
In a word? Nothing.
Everything he does is about him.
A burnt out lightbulb in a coal mine at midnight on a moonless night outshines Obama.
An anti-communist is deemed more worthy of a peace prize “communists have killed more of their citizens in the last 100 years than all wars in the same period. Ask the ANSWER folks why they side with the largest murderers”.
Well put and true!
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