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An article published in VHeadline.com on November 26
last year, headlined Venezuela's President Hugo
Chavez Frias proposed for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize aroused great interest

Since that piece was published, Chavez has continued
his humanitarian projects, the most recent of which
are extending Mission Miracle in alliance with Cuba to
correct blindness and sight disorders to the whole of
the American continent, including the US and the
Caribbean. He has also offered crude oil, gasoline and
heating oil at preferential, financed rates to smaller
Caribbean countries, as well as Uruguay and Paraguay
which are struggling with the sky high price of
energy.

The improvement in cash flow of these countries
generated by the financing aspect at 1% per year,
allows their governments to use this surplus to invest
in social programs.

This initiative has also taken into account poor
communities, schools, hospitals, old peoples homes
facing a predicted brutally cold winter in the United
States ... part of this program includes donations of
heating oil as well as financing part of the
deliveries from CITGO, a 100%-owned US-based
Venezuelan company based in Houston with 8 refineries
delivering to over 14,000 gasoline stations. Pilot
projects will be underway in Chicago and Boston as of
October 14.

As per the Nobel Peace Prize website the 2004 winner
was Wangari Maathai of Kenya for her contribution to
sustainable development, democracy and peace.

If these three qualities are key to winning the Nobel
Peace Prize then Chavez has all these in abundance ...
and more. He must be the world's leading democrat
having been to the polls 9 times since 1998. He
promotes peace by asking for troops out of Afghanistan
and Iraq, so that these sovereign nations can exercise
self-determination and define their own path in the
future.

Other accomplishments, which have been pushed by
Chavez' personal leadership in Venezuela are the
Social Missions, all grouped under the humanitarian
banner of Mision Cristo (Christ's Mission). The most
important of these, Mision Robinson has taught 1.4
million Venezuelans to read and write; Mision Barrio
Adentro (Neighborhood Within) offers free primary
healthcare in the poor areas and is now reaching 14
million Venezuelans out of a population of
approximately 25 million; Mision Mercal sells cheap
staple foods and has impacted more than half the
population at the time of writing.

Chavez, however, is up against some very stiff
competition including Colin Powell (for his efforts to
end the 21-year civil war in Sudan); the ex-governor
of Illinois, George Ryan (for his campaign to abolish
the death sentence in the US); Israeli Mordechai
Vanunu (for denouncing the existence of nuclear
weapons in his country); the Japanese Hidankyo group
(survivors of the US' atomic bombs dropped on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki).

Nobel Peace Prize winners since 1975

Nobel Peace Prize winners since 1975:

* 2007: Former Vice President AL Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, for efforts to educate about the effects of man-made climate change.

* 2006: Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank, the Bangladeshi bank he founded.

* 2005: Mohamed ElBaradei, Egypt, and the International Atomic Energy Agency.

* 2004: Wangari Maathai, Kenya.

* 2003: Shirin Ebadi, Iran.

* 2002: Jimmy Carter, United States.

* 2001: U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

* 2000: Kim Dae-jung, South Korea.

* 1999: Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders).

* 1998: David Trimble and John Hume, Northern Ireland.

* 1997: Jody Williams and the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, United States.

* 1996: Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and Jose Ramos-Horta, East Timor.

* 1995: Joseph Rotblat, Britain, and the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs.

* 1994: Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat; Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, Israel.

* 1993: Nelson Mandela and F.W. DE Klerk, South Africa.

* 1992: Rigoberta Menchu, Guatemala.

* 1991: Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar (also known as Burma).

* 1990: Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet Union.

* 1989: The Dalai Lama, Tibet.

* 1988: The U.N. Peacekeeping Forces.

* 1987: Oscar Arias Sanchez, Costa Rica.

* 1986: Elie Wiesel, United States.

* 1985: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, United States.

* 1984: Desmond Mpilo Tutu, South Africa.

* 1983: Lech Walesa, Poland.

* 1982: Alva Myrdal, Sweden; Alfonso Garcia Robles, Mexico.

* 1981: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, or UNHCR.

* 1980: Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Argentina.

* 1979: Mother Teresa, India.

* 1978: Anwar Sadat, Egypt; Menachem Begin, Israel.

* 1977: Amnesty International, Britain.

* 1976: Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan, Northern Ireland.

* 1975: Andrei Sakharov, Soviet Union.

elected position. They basically serve as glorified housewife. Clinton's experience comes from actual work experience with Nixon impeachment, Children's Defense Fund, and on and on and on.

The way I look at it, the Obamas will have more help taking care of the dog (they can be a lot of work!) and also, IMHO, the girls are old enough now to have one and learn responsibility.

Off topic, but if I were in White House, I would follow in Calvin Coolidge's footsteps: He had 6 dogs, a bobcat, a goose, a donkey, a cat, 2 lion cubs, an antelope, a wallaby and a pygmy hippopotamus.

The woman was Eleanor Roosevelt. To say she was nothing to look at was an understatement. Very homely looking but what she accomplished which made me think of her when others are talking about looks. Do looks matter- what about a person's soul and heart- does that not count for anything now?

My stepmom worked in Washington during WWII. She saw Eleanor Roosevelt several times. She told me about how Mrs. Roosevelt would board a pubic bus and say hello to the people sitting there, not pretentious at all. I remember her later when she was working at the United Nations as a delegate. She became one of the greatest women of the 20th Century. She was an humanitarian and civic leader (among other roles). She worked for the welfare of youth, black Americans, the poor, and women, at home and abroad. She persuaded her husband to create NYA which gave financial aid to students and young people. She worked closely with the NAACP. She visited the troops overseas during WWII. She was a leader in human right efforts. What she may have lacked in looks she certainly made up for it in her good deeds.

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