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."
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I was thinking that this shows the mindset of the left. The other candidates had concrete accomplishments, and many put themselves in personal danger. Obama has ideas, with no accomplishments at all. The difference is that Obama has socialist ideas. Forget that these naive notions would cause the world to be a far more dangerous place. They are preferred by the left, so have more value than reality.
ReplyDeleteYes, I honestly believe that President Obama deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. While many people have suffered long and hard to bring about peace in many places, his movement from a diplomacy based on preemptive strikes to a diplomacy of offering a hand to unclenched fists cannot nor should not be minimized.
ReplyDeleteTo people that scream 'socialism' every time the President of our great country is recognized, I would suggest that they look a little more deeply at differentiating economic policies from international relations policies.
Likewise, I find the reaction of so many on the right to be sadly predictable. For more on my thinking about this, I would encourage you to read my blog post, The Unclenched Fist.
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Jesse Jackson speaks about Obama's Nobel Prize
ReplyDeleteSome say with surprise
Obama how’d he
get a Peace Prize?
They say how could he have won?
With all his accomplishments
he aint done
Some say the Nobel committee gave him a present
For voting in the U.S. Senate
130 times present
But just in case you missed it
All his accomplishments
I will now list it
How about that bling,
He got that
from a Saudi King
Often he would scored
In a basketball game
15 point or more
Or how can you discount his dreams?
He had
for our Olympic teams
Or what about all the Community organizing he has done
Teaching inner city kids
being chased by gangs how to run
The Nobel committee Obama they did choose
Look at Bush
all he ever got was a pair of shoes
does make you wonder doesn't it?!
ReplyDeleteTalk about surprising! Loads of people were absolutely shocked. I posted some questions about this award today also.
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