Cindy Sheehan: Nobel Peace Prize Finalist?

Okay, which academic or judge nominated Sheehan for this prize? What has she actually done to promote peace? *crickets*

Standing with Hugo Chavez who would just as soon as toss her in jail if she looked crossways at him doesn't cut it. Blaming Bush for the death of her son doesn't cut it. Standing in marches and demanding an end to the conflict in Iraq doesn't cut it - if she demonstrated against the jihadis and insurgents who are doing most of the killing in Iraq, then she might be worth considering, post mortem that is. You see, it's way too easy to demonstrate against President Bush and call him evil and all that. He's not going to do anything to shut someone like Sheehan up. Freedom of speech and all that. There's no risk to her life. She can pull all the stunts she likes and get arrested for disorderly conduct or failing to protest with the proper permits, but it doesn't change the basic fact.

Her 15 minutes should have been up a long time ago, but her ego has outgrown everything else - including the fact that she's supposedly mourning the death of her son Casey.

Being the public face of the anti-US, anti-Bush movement should not mean you're Nobel Peace Prize material. Yet, considering the anti-US/anti-Bush bent of the Committee in past years, it means that she's got a real good chance of winning out of spite - like all the other awards in recent years.

Recall that the Nobel Prize went to the IAEA and Mohammad el Baradei for their work on nuclear nonproliferation. Sounds pretty quaint considering they couldn't stop North Korea from claiming to have detonated a nuclear device, Iran is busy working on their nuclear weapons program, and the AQ Khan network distributed nuclear technologies around the world. Someone who let that happen on their watch should be fired, not given a prize. Yet, because the IAEA stood up to the US on what happened in Iraq (with the failure to find nuclear weapons and a substantive nuclear weapons/research program), they got one anyway.

UPDATE:
Here is the complete method of being nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.