Nobel Peace Prize Nominateion - 2nd try

[TomF]

Technical difficulties the first time ... let's try again.

http://www.stephenlewisfoundation.org/

I received an e-mail petition yesterday, collecting signatures to nominate Stephen Lewis for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. Lewis is currently the UN Special Commissioner for HIV/AIDS in Africa, and has served honourably in a variety of senior UN posts (e.g. with Unicef).

He's a remarkable man. While I won't spam you with the e-mail, if anyone wants it, please send me a p.m.

Tom.

[TomF]

noticed that my speeeling in the thread title hasn't got any better! Ugh.

[TomF]

bump, for folks just getting up.

[Popeye]

not since Pearson :)

[Bob Cleek]

Actually, it turns out anybody can nominate anybody for a Nobel Prize. We had a guy on Death Row out here whose supporters were trying to get the Governor to commute his death sentence. Lots of press on it all. He had written some "No hope with Dope" kid's book. They kept harping that he was a "Nobel Prize Nominee." After a week of that, somebody actually inquired and found out that being a "nominee" really didn't mean anything.... so they snuffed 'em.

Maybe I ought to nominate myself... Then I could be a Nobel Prize Nominee, too!

[TomF]

Yup, anybody can nominate anybody for a Nobel. Hence the petition, re Stephen Lewis ... giving a wee bit more attention and credibility to the nomination than perhaps your death-row acquaintance had.

t.

[Peter Malcolm Jardine]

Remember Tom, if he isn't American, he isn't important. :D

[PeterSibley]

i listened to a series of lectures by him ( on our ABC ....public radio ) An excellent speaker ,good ideas and impassioned.He'd make a damned good PM for Oz were he interested.

[TomF]

uhh, harsh words Tom :eek:Sorry if this came across as harsh; any acidity was unintentional. Bob Cleek has told us before how he'd worked on death row for a time, and I'm presuming this was one of the inmates there ... I'll happily edit the words to something else, if Bob was offended.

[TomF]

i listened to a series of lectures by him ( on our ABC ....public radio ) An excellent speaker ,good ideas and impassioned.He'd make a damned good PM for Oz were he interested.His family's got a long and storied history in our democratic socialist party. It was an enormous surprise when a Conservative PM appointed him as Canada's ambassador to the UN, but one of then PM Mulroney's more inspired moves.

He could likely be the strongest contender to depose our current Prime Minister, were he to decide to toss his hat into the Liberal party's current leadership race. I'm certain that he's been courted, and the force of his personality and convictions would simply transform the Canadian political landscape.

Lewis, to his great credit, seems to want none of it - preferring to use his current position and personal influence to draw the West's attention to the tragedies happening in Africa. That alone - his willingness to turn his back on what is very likely a Prime Ministership in Canada in favour of helping those ravaged by AIDS and broken foreign aid promises - speaks to his character.

[Popeye]

hmmm .. a sensible, even handed person for PM you say