Nobel Peace Prize: Hits, Misses, Obama and Gandhi
The Nobel Peace Prize, like other awards shows, often produces strange history. Adolf Hitler was nominated in 1939. That is about as strange as it gets. But there has been controversy about recipients and several who were never honored since the first Nobel Peace Prize way back in 1901.
The foremost example is probably Mahatma Gandhi – the Indian national leader. Gandhi was nominated five times between 1937 and 1948, the fifth nomination coming just days before his murder. Why Gandhi never won remains baffling today and the Nobel Peace Prize Committee has done nothing to correct that oversight in more than sixty years since his death. Read more »
“You Lie!” Ignites National Shout Out
My mother used to constantly admonish me, “If you don’t have something nice to say about someone then don’t say anything at all.” Apparently my mother never met Joe Wilson.
Wilson is the white South Carolina Republican congressman and current poster boy for disrespect who shouted “You lie!” during President Barack Obama’s recent health care policy address to Congress. Politicians from both parties roundly booed the red-faced Congressman who later apologized to Obama. The President accepted the apology. Read more »
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