Next week, Obama to be awarded Gold Medal in 2010 Olympic Games for walking (really fast)
So, who came in second to President Zero Accomplishments in the running for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize? Who out there that has been toiling for and affecting real peace through very real personal sacrifice in often life-threatening situations — yet still lost out to a guy who merely “hopes” for peace?
Moonbattery has a list of some of the other nominees that lost out to The Won:
As a bonus, let’s consider who the Nobel Committee considered less worthy than Barack Hussein Obama to receive to Nobel Peace Prize:
- Chinese Human Rights Activist Hu Jia – imprisoned for campaigning for human rights in the PRC, not as worthy as Barack Hussein Obama.
- Wei Jingsheng, who spent 17 years in Chinese prisons for urging reforms of China’s communist system. — not as worthy as Barack Hussein Obama. (Not to mention the symbolic value of awarding a Chinese dissident on the 20th Anniversary of the Tianenmen Square Massacre.)
- Greg Mortenson, founder of the Central Asia Institute has built nearly 80 schools, especially for girls, in remote areas of northern Pakistan and Afghanistan over the past 15 years – not as worthy as Barack Hussein Obama.
- Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad, a philosophy professor in Jordan who risks his life by advocating interfaith dialogue between Jews and Muslims, also not as worthy as Barack Hussein Obama.
- Afghan human rights activist Sima Samar. She currently leads the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission and serves as the U.N. special envoy to Darfur and is apparently also not as worthy as Barack Hussein Obama.
Ace piles on:
But come on. Not a single one of them has ever been on the cover of People Magazine.
Update: Someone mentioned this (forget who) — Thank God the Nobel Committee didn’t use its power of publicity to highlight the travails and triumphs of those people, and use the spotlight to illuminate human rights abuses, or anything.
Thank God Himself they gave the prize to someone who really needs a bit of additional media hype.
You know what? At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if Hollywood awards Obama an Emmy for all of his fine television work this year. And you might as well give him a Pulitzer and a Nobel Laureate for all of those damned fine speeches he wrote…And rumor has it that next week Vancouver is going to award Obama a gold medal in the 2010 Olympic Games.
U.N. Decries Obama’s Preemptive Nobel Peace Prize!
(2009-10-09) — United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today rejected in the strongest possible terms the deployment of the Nobel Peace Prize to U.S. President Barack Obama, which he said was “reminiscent of George W. Bush’s disastrous doctrine of preemption.”
“The Nobel committee, perhaps persuaded by faulty intelligence and a hyped sense of urgency, made an historic blunder in its rush to judgment,” said Mr. Ban. “When Obama was nominated in February, he had just taken office…so the prize was awarded based on his speeches as a presidential candidate, not even for the good intentions that he has implemented in the past eight months.”
Wei Jingsheng, a Chinese dissident known as ‘the father of Chinese democracy’, is among the 176 nominees who lost to Mr. Obama, but said he was honored to have been edged out by “a man of such staggering accomplishments.”
“I was imprisoned more than 15 years for speaking out against a totalitarian communist regime,” said Mr. Wei, “A book of my essays was published from my writings, initially scribbled on toilet paper in jail. But I have to admit that Barack Obama has written two books and given hundreds of autobiographical speeches with thinner material than that. I bow respectfully to the father of global peace.”
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