Posted on 10/09/2009 4:56:46 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch
Edited on 10/09/2009 6:16:54 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Sima Samar, women's rights activist in Afghanistan: "With dogged persistence and at great personal risk, she kept her schools and clinics open in Afghanistan even during the most repressive days of the Taliban regime, whose laws prohibited the education of girls past the age of eight. When the Taliban fell, Samar returned to Kabul and accepted the post of Minister for Women's Affairs."
Ingrid Betancourt: French-Colombian ex-hostage held for six years.
"Dr. Denis Mukwege: Doctor, founder and head of Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo. He has dedicated his life to helping Congolese women and girls who are victims of gang rape and brutal sexual violence."
Handicap International and Cluster Munition Coalition: "These organizations are recognized for their consistently serious efforts to clean up cluster bombs, also known as land mines. Innocent civilians are regularly killed worldwide because the unseen bombs explode when stepped upon."
"Hu Jia, a human rights activist and an outspoken critic of the Chinese government, who was sentenced last year to a three-and-a-half-year prison term for 'inciting subversion of state power.'"
"Wei Jingsheng, who spent 17 years in Chinese prisons for urging reforms of China's communist system. He now lives in the United States."
Wait a minute!
It is OBVIOUS that no one in the world deserved this award more than Obama.
In ten days in office he did more than anyone on the planet to promote peace.
Yeah but Obama brought peace to the streets of Chicago
I’d like to say something like Obama is bringing shame on this nation, but his followers did that. What must people around the world be thinking, as they see this light weight child pretend to be a statesman?
The Nobel Committee has embarrassed themselves, but I don’t really care about them. I care about our nation, and a man with an ego that has his followers comparing him to not only a rock star, but a deity as in The One.
This NPP will inflate his ego even more. He says he doesn’t think he deserves it, but don’t believe him for a second. He thinks he deserved to be president. He thinks the world loves us once again despite the evidence to the contrary. And for what’s on his mind and has justified his perceptions, he most certainly does think he deserves the prize.
This guy could keep an army of shrinks busy for five lifetimes, but he won’t be seeing one. If anything, he would only explain to them how to get their lives back in order. There’s no question in his mind if he has problems or not. Hell no he doesn’t think he has problems.
People with his problems never do.
I guess Jingsheng didnt bring enough hope and change. He should gladly cede his nomination to Barack Hussein Obama mmmm mmmmm mmmmm!
LOL! I'm not going to hold my breath and wait for that to happen.
Comrade Obamsky won the prize that Arafat won. Makes perfect sense.
A law degree, a book advance, a fat raise for the wife, a sweet real estate deal, a grammy, a Nobel - a presidency. What will they give him next for doing next to nothing? It’s getting harder for him to recognize that it’s come all too easy and harder still for him to realize that more people are starting to see the pattern.
Bill Clinton deserves the prize about a hundred more times than O’bama. He did go to North Korea and grovel in front of the dear leader to spring those two airhead oriental chicks that haven’t heard of GPS.
Thought the nominations were sealed for 50 years.
Irena Sendler would never have gotten an award from the Nobel Committee.
After all, Norway is a nation of “Quislings”.
Must have been the year for the leftist bi-sexual coke head to win...
I am finish up reading “Barack and Michelle” [from the library of course] ... and he is very clearly a narcissist.
“The appropriate response is to say congratulations.” - Tim Pawlenty
And, the Golden Gonads award goes to (drumroll.......) RNC Chairman, Michael Steele!
Minnesota nice never translates nationally. Just ask Harold Stassen and Hubert Humphrey.
If you watched his “acceptance speech” you might have thought he did seem a tad embarrassed. At any rate it seemed like he was fully aware that he was a laughing stock because of this.
I put the speech on and listened for the first minute, then got bored tho so maybe i missed something.
The guy does go on and on. Why does it take him 20 minutes to say something that could be said in 5 minutes or less? ...oh wait...i forgot...he loves the sound of his own voice and especially that TV time.
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