When Barack Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize, it was met with a general surprise. I am a big Obama supporter, but even I was kind of shocked. After all, up until his presidency he had almost no international experience.
However, I am impressed with the list of charities to which he is choosing to donate the $1.4 million prize.
– $250,000 to Fisher House, a group that helps provide housing for families of patients receiving medical care at military and Veterans Affairs medical centers;
– $200,000 for the Clinton-Bush Haiti fund, which supports relief efforts in the earthquake-ravaged nation;
– $125,000 for the College Summit, which helps prepare students for college;
– $125,000 for the United Negro College Fund, which helps more than 60,000 students attend college annually;
– $125,000 to the Posse Foundation, which awards four-year full-tuition scholarships to students who, according to the White House, "may be overlooked by traditional college selection processes";
– $125,000 to the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, which has awarded scholarships to over 90,000 students over a 34-year history;
– $125,000 to the Appalachian Leadership and Education Foundation, which supports higher education opportunities for students from Appalachia;
– $125,000 to the American Indian College Fund, which provides over 6,000 scholarships annually to Native American students;
– $100,000 to AfriCare, which supports programs primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa dealing with health, food, and water resource development; and
– $100,000 to the Central Asia Institute, which backs education and literacy efforts for girls in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Damned Socialist. How dare he. Education at home and abroad? Sub-Saharan Africa? Haiti? Helping families of injured veterans? Sheesh. What was he thinking?
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