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."
According to the website, "Information about the nominations, investigations, and opinions concerning the award is kept secret for 50 years".
Of course, that is, unless it leaks.
Wow.
Great post. I also see that the deadline for nominations was 11 days after he took office.
Applying for and Accepting this NOBEL PEACE PRIZE has DESTROYED ANY CREDIBILITY THIS SLEAZEMEISTER MIGHT HAVE STILL HELD AS THE DEFACTO, ALLEGED POTUS AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF! OBOZO TOLD THE MASSES IN BERLIN THAT HE (OBOZO) WAS NOT A CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES!!!! but of the WORLD!!
DO WE NOT BELIEVE OBOZO NOW AFTER THIS LATEST OUTRAGE OF DECENCY, LOGIC, HONOR and TRUTH?
>>> early this morning, asking for reaction, and the very first White House press people reaction was wondering if it was like an Aprils fool joke <<<
When I saw it this morning I thought it was from The Onion.
I was about to post that very thing. Makes one sick, does it not?
Who nominated Barack? Was it Ayers, Clinton, McCain, Jay Leno, David Letterman, Rush Limbaugh?
So? They aren’t a deity like Obama
No, the award became meaningless when they awarded it to Yassar Arafat.
Ever since Al Gore won the 2007 Prize, beating out Irena Sendler, the Nobel Committee has been a joke. For those who don't know, she rescued 2500 Polish Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto during in WWII at great risk to her life.
There is an excellent link that summarizes exactly what she did to save those kids:
http://www.chabad.org/theJewishWoman/article_cdo/aid/939081/jewish/Irena-Sendler.htm
Irena Sendler never got a chance to be nominated again, as she died in 2008 and no Nobel Prize can be awarded to someone who is dead.
After 2007, I did not think that the Nobel Committee could ever top that Bozo selection. Yet, they did just that this year. There were others on the nominations list who were truly more deserving.
Al Gore and Barack Obama would have done much better to decline their awards. If they had stood up and graciously thanked the Nobel Committee for their selections, but asked that they be awarded to others more deserving, they would be thought more of of as statesmen and not the narcissistic prima donnas that they have become.
“He’ll probably give his money to ACORN.”
You’re half right. He’ll give somebody else’s money to ACORN.
Thank you. Well said.
Mighty convenient that Obama gets this award just days after the Olympic embarrassment.
I didn't think that was possible after Jimmuh Carter won it, but you are, of course, correct.
Can you imagine what good some of these people would do with the money that Obama will be getting?
I feel like we're living in a perpetual Twilight Zone.
And didn't he have something to do with finally effecting a workable settlement in Northern Ireland? I'd give him a Peace Prize for the fact that we no longer have to hear about the Irish blowing each other up on a regular basis.
I agree!! It didn’t occur to me until friends at dinner tonight were talking about it.
he’s in love with himself.
I don’t know if this question has been brought up yet on this thread, but WHO NOMINATED OBAMA AND WHY??
A presidential historian from Rice University (on Greta who asked the same question) just said that the records are sealed for the next fifty years. I asked this question this afternoon on the Rush thread and no one could answer - now we know why. Very strange.
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