Posted on 10/10/2009 6:51:28 PM PDT by Starman417
How about not feeling worthy of standing above those "transformative figures" who haven't been honored by the peace prize? Who are the ones who stand in the shadow of "The One we've been waiting for"?
A record 205 nominations (72 individuals and 33 organizations) were made for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. And President Barack Hussein Obama beat them all. Notable among these? Dr. Sima Samar:
here in Afghanistan the big story is about the nominee who didn’t win the prize. That would be Dr. Sima Samar, an incredibly courageous Afghan woman who has risked her life for much of the past decade, treating women and girls in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Dr. Samar is the chairwomen of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, a very influential organization in Kabul. She has won more awards from human rights organizations than I can list here, but you can see them for yourself on her Wiki page.Dr. Samar was the first Hazara woman to obtain a medical degree from Kabul University, back in 1982. After a four-month residency at Wazir Akhbar Khan Hospital in Kabul, she was forced to flee for her life as Soviets and Mujahedeen fought bloody street battles in the capital. She returned to her home village of Jaghoori, where she began treating the sick in rural Afghanistan. Soon the Russians arrested her husband and, once again Dr. Samar fled, this time with her young son, to Pakistan. In Pakistan she founded a clinic to treat refugees of the war in Afghanistan and has since described the conditions in the refugee camps as “appalling.”
Dr. Samar returned to Afghanistan in 2002, where she assumed the post of Deputy President and later Minister of Women’s Affairs in the interim government of Hamid Karzai. She was forced to resign after making negative comments about sharia law and her life was constantly under threat. She is vocally opposed to the Burka, saying the the lack of sunlight on women’s skin causes Afghan women to have an unusually high instance of bone diseases.
Dr. Samar has likely saved the lives of countless women and girls who’s medical problems would otherwise have been ignored and their eventual deaths, unnoticed. Guess that’s not enough for the gang up in Oslo.
Better luck next year, Doc.
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(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net
Tookie Williams a few years back
Here is the dirty little secret.
The Messiah had to accept the nomination back in Sept or he could of turned it down.
What a fat headed ego this evil monster has.
**I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many ...**
This is the ONLY TIME I agree with you, BARKY!!!
Just a tick! What's that?
Oh, never mind. It's just crickets.
Well its not like Dr. Samar has snappy bumper sticker phrases like ‘Hope’ and ‘Change’ on her resume. What a slacker.../sarc.
Ronald Reagan never won a Noble Prize either. But he just stopped the spread of Communism and ushered great prosperity to the free world.
Barrack Hussein Obama, mmm, mmm, mmm, is our generation’s Neville Chamberlin. And he will be remembered as fondly historically.
It isnt really like it means anything any longer.
It has been used politically for yars and isnt worth spit. Except for the check.
I think most people have misunderstood this. What he really meant was that nobody was in the same league as him.
He is The One...
But has she ever voted “Present” on a tough, controversial issue?
He is, ahem, The Won.
Twice now.
Yes, he could have.
He’s number two to me.
Ronald Wilson Reagan Awarded The 2002 Noble Peace Prize.... well, not really, but he should have.
http://www.geocities.com/sentryusa2000/HOR_NOBLE.htm
i think he meshes perfectly with jimmy carter and yassar arafat.
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