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A Few Other Nobel Candidates

Tireless campaigners for human rights, long-suffering Chinese dissidents among those passed over

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(Newser) – President Obama himself said he was not sure he deserved to win the Nobel Peace Prize, and the Weekly Standard seems to agree. Mary Katherine Ham invites you to consider some of the luminaries who were passed over:

  • Sima Samar: A Afghan women’s rights activist who kept her schools—the only high schools in the whole country girls were able to attend—open under the Taliban regime.
  • Ingrid Betancourt: French-Colombian politician held hostage by FARC militants for 6 years.

  • Denis Mukwege: A doctor who has devoted his life to helping Congolese victims of sexual violence.
  • Handicap International and Cluster Munition Coalition: Both work tirelessly to remove unexploded landmines around the world.
  • Hu Jia: Chinese blogger and human rights activist, sentenced last year to 3½ years in prison for “inciting subversion of state power.”
  • Wei Jingsheng. A Chinese democratic activist who spent 17 years in prison until international pressure forced his release in 1997.

In this undated photo released by V-Day, Dr. Denis Mukwege, center, of the Panzi General Hospital in the city of Bukavu, in eastern Congo is shown surrounded by a number of women and children.
In this undated photo released by V-Day, Dr. Denis Mukwege, center, of the Panzi General Hospital in the city of Bukavu, in eastern Congo is shown surrounded by a number of women and children.   (AP Photo/V-Day)
Sima Samar, Chairperson of the Experts Group of the special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Sudan, listens to a speech about the final report on Darfur to the Human Rights Council, during the 6th UN Human Rights Council at the European headquarters of the United Nations...
Sima Samar, Chairperson of the Experts Group of the special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Sudan, listens to a speech about the final report on Darfur to the Human Rights Council,...   (AP Photo/Keystone, Salvatore Di Nolfi)
In this March 31, 2006 file photo, Chinese AIDS activist Hu Jia speaks during an interview at a cafe in Beijing.
In this March 31, 2006 file photo, Chinese AIDS activist Hu Jia speaks during an interview at a cafe in Beijing.   (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)
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Wraith
Oct 9, 09 2:27 PM CDT
* President Obama who has put up with over 10 months of Right Wing Birthers, screaming NO and YOU LIE and other totally UnAmerican Activity from the Royal Right...works just fine for me. Reply
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carol
Oct 9, 09 2:29 PM CDT
using your analogy, Sarah Palin would deserve it more
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ianakamel
Oct 9, 09 2:37 PM CDT
Don't you mean, "using your logic"?
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BOTHPARTIESSUCK
Oct 9, 09 2:42 PM CDT
It's unAmerican to tell the President he's lying when he was? If the health care bill has a public option, illegal immigrants will get coverage, under the Constitution. Obama was either lying or he doesn't know anything about the Constitution.
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WiteOut
Oct 9, 09 2:50 PM CDT
Using your "logic", G W Bush should have won 8 years in a row.
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