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punkdavid wrote:
Phew, there are 165 more qualified nominees. Otherwise I was going to have to barf.
--PunkDavid
Why do so many people hate Bono? I think he should be honored the way he puts his name, efforts and money towards good causes. While its a very long shot that he will be awarded it, I think its really cool that he is nominated.
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suchpj wrote:
punkdavid wrote:
Phew, there are 165 more qualified nominees. Otherwise I was going to have to barf.
--PunkDavid
Why do so many people hate Bono? I think he should be honored the way he puts his name, efforts and money towards good causes. While its a very long shot that he will be awarded it, I think its really cool that he is nominated.
Other than Oprah and Alicia Keys, I'd like to know other artists/celebreties who call themselves africans which do more for fighting AIDS in africa than Bono.
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You want to know why I feel that way about Bono?
Bono does some wonderful things, and supports many worthy causes. Lending his name and his fame to those causes is very valuable, and I think that doing things like that is a moral obligation when you are a famous, wealthy person. He does a lot of good.
My problem with him is that he doesn't need a Nobel Prize because he has already won "The Bono". And how could he be any more proud of himself than he already is for having won the respect and undying admiration of Bono himself? Winning a Bono is the most important thing that can happen to a human being in this world, and Bono knows this. The prize money may be meager, but the feeling of validation that Bono has for having won a Bono award, and being deified by the Bono organization, is beyond price.
Bono doesn't need our earthly Nobel Prizes. He has the eternal love of Bono on his side.
--PunkDavid
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Bono has the money already. The prize is best reserved for the individuals and organisations whose work don't get enough attention and funds, or are just screaming out to be officially recognised, like the MSF.
At my internship last year at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at University of Sydney last year, the professor asked me to put together a file and a draft nomination statement for Dr Catherine Hamlin, director and founder of the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital. Read more about it here: http://www.fistulahospital.org/hospital/
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