10-10-2009, 02:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Walt
"Fucking ridiculous" is going straight for the partisan rhetoric the instant someone happens to disagree with you. Lighten up, Francis.
Tell me, how is it fucking ridiculous to believe that President Obama should have declined the award? Here is a list of the other nominees that Obama beat out:
- 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 State
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Can I get a link for this please?
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Me: Shit happens.
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