Saturday, October 10, 2009

Also-rans Passed Over for Nobel Prize

Congratulations to President Obama, for winning the Nobel Peace Prize! And too bad for JFK, who never got one, and for all you "also-rans" (losing nominees), whom Mary Catherine Ham catalogs below in a Weekly Standard article. I'm sure you do great work, but you just need a little more charisma and star power, or Oprah on speed dial.

Meet the People Who Were Passed Over for Obama
by Mary Katharine Ham

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."

Friday, October 9, 2009

Obama Nobel Prize Jokes

Best Obama-Nobel Jokes - George's Bottom Line

JFK never got a Nobel Prize, despite deftly avoiding nuclear war with the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Nobel may be one of the few that his dad Joe Kennedy couldn't buy or finagle for him. But grade inflation has arrived, and now Jimmy Carter and Al Gore have one, Yasir Arafat had one, so why not President Obama? Like Carter and Gore, President Obama has a thinly disguised contempt for America and Americans, and Europeans find this an irresistable quality. Here, former Clinton lieutenant George Stephanopoulous assembles some of the best zingers on the subject.