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.
Thank you. Well said.
Excellent post. It makes me want to cry. Everything in Al Gore’s little power point was a LIE.
“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.”
Well, she has a better reward. More often than not, things like this are never really appreciated on Earth.