Good Morning Mr. President, You’ve Won the Nobel Peace Prize

Awesome Dude, the Norwegian Socialists just elected Obama their Prom King!
For those of you keeping score at home:
Barack Obama, for accomplishing NOTHING, but for apologizing profusely for all of America’s evils prior to January 20, 2009:
Nobel Peace Prize!
Yasser Arafat, Father of Modern Terrorism:
Nobel Peace Prize!
Mohandas Gandhi, for leading several hundred million of his countrymen to freedom from Imperial rule–WITHOUT FIRING A SHOT:
You get nothing!
Thank you for playing and good night.

Embarrassing. Even more embarrassing is that he’s immediately giving a speech about it.

I think the Colts should be declared the winner of the Super Bowl ahead of time, because they have so much potential.
Peyton has earned it.
He’s worked hard in the NFL for over 10 years.
Makes more sense than Obama winning the Nobel Prize.

Obama had no accomplishments and was elected president–so why not a Nobel?
With that massive ego he probably thinks he deserves it.

It must have been a sympathy vote following the International Olympic Committee’s snubbing of Chicago last week.

I’m guessing Obama won’t be sending 40K troops to Afghanistan.
And no drone attacks for awhile.
He’s got to live up to that award now.

Obama did host a peace conference between a black professor and a white cop. I also expect him to win the Cy Young award this year since he did throw out the first pitch at the All-Star game….Any chance we can get Kanye West to attend the ceremony for the Nobel Peace Prize. Talk about a time for him to step up.

HA HA-the grinches are falling all over themselves, choking on their green eggs and ham…maybe the republicans should organize another screaming public display of their hate for the president by demanding…in their usual way…that he give the prize back…grab a microphone and start babbling

Anyone who loves this country can only be happy about this news. The Peace Prize is a mark of international prestige and will help the President as he serves his role in protecting and promoting US interests abroad. I hope the Republicans can set aside their hatred of Obama enough to not try to tear down this soft power gift America has received.

Obama should be declared the winner of next years’s Tour de France because he rides a bicycle. He could train and get really good by next July.
Didn’t he win the Nobel for what he might do one day?

“Watching President Ego accept this for his 11 days in office”
Concerned in OH | Oct 9, 2009 11:00:45 AM
And the knee jerk lying from the Right fires up. No one is so stupid as to not know that there were hundreds (or more) nominations in January and the final decision on the prize was actually made within the last month or so.

Oh such Jealousy from the right. Love it all that bashing and Hate of the President trying to posion the Peoples mind about him. hahaha lolol and Look he wins the Noble Peace Prize haha keep it up Republicans haha CONGRATS PRESIDENT OBAMA Haters get over your jealousy its not healthy hahahahahahahah hahahahahahahahahahah

Awwww…
One more thing Obama shares with Jimmy.
But at least Carter worked for his prize.
One more thing simply handed to Obama.

So, when Libs like Sen. Chuck Schumer gleefully consider each troop death in Iraq putting the Dems one vote closer to Senate control, we are not supposed to question their patriotism.
But when Conservatives are relieved that Mayor Daley’s cronies will not be able to feast at the taxpayer trough while building the Olympic village, or mock the absurdity of Obama winning a Peace award for accomplishing nothing–then WE are the Traitors.
HA!

but I have to say..he has done a remarkable job so far
Posted by: cowgirl | Oct 9, 2009 11:03:19 AM
Examples please…

“How dare Obama not put a bunch of guys who share his opinions and views about everything on there! Bush showed the right way to govern is to surround yourself with people who agree with you and share your exact outlook on the world. What does Obama think he’s doing listening to citizens with different opinions!”
Posted by: jhw539 | Oct 9, 2009 11:11:10 AM
Dalia Mogahed claims that the oppressive shari’a law–that results in stonings, mainly for women–is actually “gender justice.”
Are you saying that this is also Obama’s opinion?

“Dalia Mogahed claims that the oppressive shari’a law–that results in stonings, mainly for women–is actually “gender justice.”
Are you saying that this is also Obama’s opinion?”
Appeasement Czar | Oct 9, 2009 11:14:26 AM
Let me simplify:
1. This is not Obama’s opinion.
2. Obama had the 25 member committee Ms. Mogahed sits on formed to collect other people’s opinions.
3. It would be stupid to create a committee to collect diverse opinions and then require everyone who sits upon it have the same opinion.
Is that clear enough? I would draw a chart with pictures but my ASCII is quite weak.

===Anyone who loves this country can only be happy about this news. ===
What a bunch of hogwash. The Nobel committee just made a laughing stock of Obama and the prize. I’m sure he loves accepting an award for simply not being George Bush.

The health care reform plan working its way through the U.S. Senate now includes a proposal that requires young and healthy Americans to either buy health insurance or pay a $750 annual penalty for not having it.
But a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 55% of U.S. voters oppose that proposal. Just 32% of voters think young and healthy Americans should be forced to purchase health insurance or else pay a penalty. Fourteen percent (14%) are not sure.

Her ACTUAL QUOTE:
“The majority of women around the world associate gender justice, or justice for women, with sharia compliance.”
Posted by: jhw539 | Oct 9, 2009 11:29:51 AM
And if they don’t fully comply, they get shot or stoned to death.
Yes, a discussion about Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize has degenerated into Liberals defending Sharia Law.

“The health care reform plan working its way through the U.S. Senate now includes a proposal that requires young and healthy Americans to either buy health insurance or pay a $750 annual penalty for not having it.”
Fascist Hyena | Oct 9, 2009 11:32:26 AM
Excellent. So when they show up in the ER with a broken leg, take up weeks in the ICU from a motorcycle spill, or need very expensive treatment for testicular cancer (a young, healthy man’s disease – just ask Lance Armstrong), society won’t have to pay for it.
The choices are:
1. Making everyone contribute to insurance.
2. Letting free loaders sop off those who so contribute via the ERs.
3. Letting foolish young adults literally die from treatable illness and injuries. (The public will still have to pay for the disposal of bodies simply as a matter of public health.)
Those are the ONLY three options. Which one do you prefer, 2 or 3?

Anyone that thinks Obama deserves the Nobel should read about he other nominees.
The Nobel has officially become a joke.
Just add that committee to the Obama fanclub with Hollywood, elementary students, CEO fatcats, special interests, ACORN, SEIU, unions,
dictators, and the media.

- the ‘right’ was so ecstatic about the US losing the olympics….. and now… their
collective knickers are in a knot as Obama is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
just another indication of how un-american the
‘right’ has become and tortured their ‘logic’ is as apolitical cult’.

Hahaha . . . the right wing just can’t take it. Everybody in the entire world but them thinks Obama is doing a great job.
Brainwashed in a cult of right wing bitterness and ignorance.

Nothing says “love and peace” like willingly sitting in Rev Wright’s church for 20 years.
Clearly Obama’s past with Wright and a domestic terrorist helped sway the committee.

jhw539
Six of the nominees passed over are mentioned on the Weekly Standard blog.

Jenny, i find it amusing that you expect the world to care that “journalists gasped”..in the USA, journalists are ranked with congress as the “least trusted”….People like george will, a reporter, speak, as if they have the background and education, to be experts on war, education, foreign policy ect…all it is is their own biased opinion…journalists used to report the news…that was when they were respected, now they try to make the news and give their opinion….as if it was fact…the very same thing most of the republicans do…

Peter Beinart:
“I like Barack Obama as much as the next liberal, but this is a farce. He’s done nothing to deserve the prize. Sure, he’s given some lovely speeches and launched some initiatives—on Iran, Israeli-Palestinian peace, climate change and nuclear disarmament—that might, if he’s really lucky and really good, make the world a more safe, more just, more peaceful world. But there’s absolutely no way to know if he’ll succeed, and by giving him the Nobel Prize as a kind of “atta boy,” the Nobel Committee is actually just highlighting the gap that conservatives have long highlighted: between Obamamania as global hype and Obama’s actual accomplishments.”

A prominent Afghan candidate for the prize, women’s and human rights activist Sima Samar, told AFP she respected the Nobel committee’s decision.
Through her spokesman, Nader Nadery, she said she was happy her candidacy had “brought major recognition to Afghanistan’s women” and to her own work.

Jenny, i find it amusing that you expect the world to care that “journalists gasped”..in the USA, journalists are ranked with congress as the “least trusted”….People like george will, a reporter, speak, as if they have the background and education, to be experts on war, education, foreign policy ect…all it is is their own biased opinion…journalists used to report the news…that was when they were respected, now they try to make the news and give their opinion….as if it was fact…the very same thing most of the republicans do…
Posted by: cowgirl | Oct 9, 2009 11:58:30 AM
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I’m glad you find it amusing. Did I press a button with you? I can’t wait for the SNL skit tomorrow, actually. Maybe we can both have a laugh together? I haven’t found one single article – left or right – that is flattering. The honest liberals talking about this are scratching their heads as well.

Nobel Prize really hasn’t meant much since ARAFAT “won” it. Although, it now gives the fawning media something to prepend to his name, further stoking the bubble of his popularity. Pitiful. Rookie.

===just another indication of how un-american the
‘right’ has become and tortured their ‘logic’ is as apolitical cult’.===
That talking point won’t last the day. Those mocking Obama and the Nobel committee are not made up entirely from the “right”. Even Obama knows he has done nothing to deserve this award. However, I find it fitting that he shares it with the likes of Carter, Gore and Arrafat. Go Bama!

“If Obama came out tomorrow and denied the Holocaust, jhw and his pals would be on this board going “Well, they were good at faking pictures in the 40s…”"
Concerned in OH | Oct 9, 2009 11:35:52 AM”
This from the guy who spread the Ashley Todd racial attack hoax in order to stoke racial animosity before the election even after it was debunked.

I think Obama’s statement this morning struck just the right note. The awarding of the prize is an affirmation of a vision, a repudiation of the Bush years and the ideology that led to them and embraced them and still embraces them (eyeroll), and as jhw points out, it’s an affirmation of the President’s efforts to reach out to all races and religions, employ diplomacy instead of a closed fist and a hammer, further nuclear proliferation efforts, work with the UN and NATO and our allies– and yes, Fascist, inspire hope and changing the world, the whole world, for the better. There is nothing wrong with that. The better part of the American spirit actually has quite a lot to do with lofty things– like hope, freedom, liberty, equal rights, rule of law, and peace– the peaceful transfer of power during an admin change, for example.
Cynicism isn’t noble. In fact, sometimes it’s just lazy and shrill.
I know it’s going to be a long day, as it’s not just the zombie in my front yard (Halloween decorations) shrieking, and I know the award of the prize is very surprising, stunning, and yes, premature, BUT I find it very telling that the sharpest and most angry responses come from the RNC and rightwingers, the Taliban and Hamas.

I agree with Oh Yeah who posted: “The frantic indignation by the ‘rightwing’ just shows how perverse and small minded they’ve become. ”
However, I can’t share in the amusement or the anger some people feel about that. Maybe some disdain, as willful ignorance does seem to get my contempt hackles up. Mostly I find it embarrassing. Really, really embarrassing. This Nobel Peace Prize is about us as much as Obama, and some folks who actually proclaim themselves “patriots” (with no awareness of the irony) are spitting on that, and proud of their spit.
At least I can be proud that I’m on the more enlightened, lofty and inspiring side of history, and continue to support the efforts of the President to live up all the high ideals that are being thrust upon him. Good luck, Mr. President, I’m in your corner.

“It was you that lifted, word for word, an opinion from HuffPo as your own. Only after I called you on it, did you admit it.”
Axey | Oct 9, 2009 12:09:52 PM
No idea what you are talking about. Citation please.

Sure you do.

===Posted by: cowgirl | Oct 9, 2009 12:16:21 PM===
I am delighted that even Obama has enough sense to know he has done nothing to deserve this award. You want to argue with someone, argue with him. I just listened to his speech and he agrees with me.

UH???…LOL
Seriously…For Obama supporters, What has his ACCOMPLISHMENTS BEEN??? NOT PROMISES, BUT ACCOMPLISHMENTS…

“Consistently, polls show that 50 percent of Americans strongly disapprove of the way he is performing as our president”
A single poll does “strongly disapprove” numbers and its Rasmussen.
The right wing pollster has Obama’s strong disapprove numbers at 35% today and they have never been above 41% let alone 50%.
Obama’s approval/disapproval numbers according to the RCP poll compilation is 51.7% approve vs 41.3% disapprove.

President Obama says, “I do not view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments, but rather as an affirmation of American leadership on behalf of aspirations held by people in all nations. ”
Posted by: cowgirl |
I believe i stated much the same thought-as the president did- prior to his statement- in my earlier post which i can pull up if you would like to be further embarassed????

Oh, say it ain’t so jenny…and i so reley on SNL for my facts..I am shattered a comedy show wouldn’t stick to the facts…WHERE…do YOU get your facts from??????

I actually think Obama has the potential to earn such an award, but has not earned it yet. I didn’t vote for him, but have been mildly pleased that he is moderate on foreign policy issues, although pretty indecisive so far.
While the award might be unwarranted, it has already been granted, so it’s too late to gripe.
A positive effect might be that it gives the US a little more clout in international negotiations. Maybe that is what the Nobel committee is secretly trying to achieve. Hey Iran, the guy won the peace prize, listen up!

“Seriously…For Obama supporters, What has his ACCOMPLISHMENTS BEEN??? NOT PROMISES, BUT ACCOMPLISHMENTS…”
Parallex View | Oct 9, 2009 12:23:06 PM
Well, his efforts against nuclear proliferation since before his election (including in part Lugar-Obama), concrete actions taken to reduce carbon emissions (executive orders at this point), shattering global assumptions about ‘racist’ America (destroying a major cornerstone of anti-American propaganda in the Middle East), re-elevating the ambassador to the UN to a cabinet level position, the (apparent) positive results from the G5+1 meeting with Iran (not flashy but the first positive motion in years), the social implications of the health care push, and even his history of turning down big bucks after Harvard to work (quite successfully) for a non-profit are documented accomplishments. Certainly there is quite an argument to be made that others deserve this award more, but his appeal to the Nobel Committee isn’t completely baseless.
Personally, I was also impressed by his record in the IL senate – the law he created and masterfully ushered through requiring the video taping of interrogations and confessions in serious criminal cases is a case study in bipartisanship and good law (both prosecutors, police, and civil rights advocates now appreciate the result of the initially controversial proposal).

From Time Magazine online:
Greg Mortenson, the son of a missionary former Army medic and mountaineer was given 20 to 1 odds by bookies to win the prize.
His life’s work was to build schools for girls where opium dealers and warlords killed other people for trying.
His Central Asia Institute has built 130 schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Just one of the nominees passed over for Obama. Obama talks a good game but some actually walk the walk.

“I can definitely believe you lift things from Huffpro. Makes so much sense now.”
Jenny | Oct 9, 2009 12:25:54 PM
He stated it as a fact. It is a lie. And the fact he cannot back it up, despite all my posts being publicly available and easily googled (my username is a unique string) shows this.
I can believe that you Sarah Palin, but if I stated it as fact I would be lying. But I am not surprised you don’t understand the concepts of honesty or integrity.

“Posted by: Wade | Oct 9, 2009 12:31:05 PM”
Hey Wade, good post.

I think it’s another big statement that all the people worldwide across national boundaries who want peace and want to settle things through diplomacy even if it’s difficult are pushing back against all the people in the world who want to settle things by fighting.

“Conservatives are trying to rewrite the Bible. Why don’t they just set up their own award?
May I suggest that conservatives name it the Vitter Awards. And hold the ceremonies in South Carolina.”
*chuckle*

“Arafat shared that award with Peres and Rabin for their joint efforts to forment peace between the Palestinians and Israelis. ”
With all due respect toward the Nobel committee, I do not think Yasser Arafat ever tried to “foment peace.”
He rejected President’s Clinton’s vigorous efforts to get a peace accord between the Israelis and Palestinians.

“which 87% of Obama voters and many members of the news media (including Barbara Walters) wrongly believed she did”
ROFLMAO!
When in doubt the right wing just make its up.
You can even quote Ziegler’s bogus poll(that Zogby disavowed) correctly.
Dear RNC,
Please send people with updated material. This old debunked crap is too easy.

Nobel Peace Prize for 2009
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Committee has attached special importance to Obama’s vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons.
Obama has as President created a new climate in international politics. Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play. Dialogue and negotiations are preferred as instruments for resolving even the most difficult international conflicts. The vision of a world free from nuclear arms has powerfully stimulated disarmament and arms control negotiations. Thanks to Obama’s initiative, the USA is now playing a more constructive role in meeting the great climatic challenges the world is confronting. Democracy and human rights are to be strengthened.
Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world’s attention and given its people hope for a better future. His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world’s population.
For 108 years, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has sought to stimulate precisely that international policy and those attitudes for which Obama is now the world’s leading spokesman. The Committee endorses Obama’s appeal that “Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges.”
Oslo, October 9, 2009

I don’t think Barack Obama has done any more than any past Miss America to “hope” for or bring peace to the world.
They were all very earnest about “hoping” for peace too.

“87% believe a lie because it was fed to you by SNL”
ROFLMAO!
The right wing Hotair blog on the Palin question
“On the last point, though, Palin was the only candidate from Alaska. Palin did state that one could see Russia from the state as an answer to an interview question about her foreign-policy credentials. I don’t believe that the survey gave Fey as a choice, so Palin would have been the obvious answer from those provided.”
Zogby on the poll
““I am happy to do a poll of both Obama voters and McCain voters, with questions that I formulated and sponsored either by an objective third party or by someone on the left, in tandem with a John Ziegler on the right – but poll questions that have my signature,” Zogby said.
“I believe there was value in the poll we did,” Zogby added. “I also believe it was not our finest hour. This slipped through the cracks. It came out critical only of Obama voters.””

Sheesh, read the blogs, read media reaction around the world—lefties included. The entire world is laughing.

cowgirl…”for his efforts…..???” Again, what are his accomplishments or in other words, show me the proof of world peace that has been achieved through Obama….

in palins own words from a live interview….translation….I can see russia from my house…Couric: Well, explain to me why that enhances your foreign-policy credentials.
Palin:
Well, it certainly does, because our, our next-door neighbors are foreign countries, there in the state that I am the executive of. And there…
Couric: Have you ever been involved in any negotiations, for example, with the Russians?
Palin:
We have trade missions back and forth, we do. It’s very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia. As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where do they go? It’s Alaska. It’s just right over the border. It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there, they are right next to our state.

Palin??? UH??? Did she get the Peace Prize as well???….LOL…DE.FLEC.TION…

And that doesn’t change the fact that 87% believe the Tina Fey skit. The fact of the matter is that the media shaped the perception of Palin.
What if those same questions were posed to obama? He NEVER held a committee meeting on Afghanistan while he was chair of it. That would have come in handy now, wouldn’t it?

Gotta go for a bit – don’t take my silence as agreement. Will be back to check your falsehoods and correct them. Enjoy your day!

“And that doesn’t change the fact that 87% believe the Tina Fey skit. The fact of the matter is that the media shaped the perception of Palin.”
ROFLMAO!
You really aren’t that bright are you?
The question was phrased and the answer choices given made it highly likely that Palin would have been the chosen answer.
“What if those same questions were posed to obama?”
Obama went on O’Reilly, as hostile an interviewer as one is going to get.
McCain also made the rounds going to more liberal outlets.
Biden was out there quite a bit.
Palin was given two softball interviews by Gibson and Couric and she looked so utterly unprepared it sank McCain.
The hard question she fumbled were what newspapers she reads and if she agreed with the Bush doctrine.
The right wing reaction was that the Bush doctrine did not exist and that asking someone what newspapers they read is a gotcha question.

McCain and Snowe are some of the few left who represent what used to be a reasonable party…what they have now is “the animal house party” of dropouts

re: Palin on SNL
the comic tragedy of Palin is that her own exact words from an interview were used in a skit… SNL writers didn’t have to do anything, they let the inanity of Palin’s words speak for themselves along with the on the mark Fey copying Palin’s awkward interview style

Posted by: Parallex View
you should go to the website and read why they gave Obama the award..you may not realize this but.. you & the ‘right’…don’t make the criteria for the committee decisions… like the election loss in 2008, and now this…… get over it

“He had to apologize to obama voters because his brother was an obama superdelegate….”
I actually missed the absurdity of this and wanted to check.
Are you saying Zogby had to apologize for a post general election poll because his brother was a superdelegate at the Democrats nominating convention 3 month prior?

Again PO’D answer the question..Why does Obamas deserve the Nobel Peace Prize??? What are his policies/acts that have contributed to world peace???? And it may surprise you to know that……wait for it……I don’t have to get over it, this is the Land of Freedom of Expression and Free Speech and Freedom of the Press….It is because of that THAT I AM A SOCIAL LIBERAL AND REFUSED TO BE SILENCED…And…further demonstrates that the new Ultra Liberal, is the old Nixon Republican…Efforts on silencing people through comments; such as, “get over it.”

“Ryan, must have missed the great DS refs you mentioned.”
Look up “daily show great moments in punditry” on google.
Hilarious stuff.

“It is because of that THAT I AM A SOCIAL LIBERAL AND REFUSED TO BE SILENCED.”
A social liberal?
ROFLMAO!
When have you EVER advocated a position consistent with social liberals?

After the poll came out, Zogby backed away from it because of how the questions were worded and refused to do a 2nd poll with Ziegler.
I am not citing Zogby’s poll but rather his reaction to it.
Posted by: Ryan C | Oct 9, 2009 1:28:02 PM
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That’s a citation, Ryan

What? No prize for Physics as well? Obama has stated repeatedly his intention to “restore science to its rightful place” in America. Based on the Committee’s new standards of achievement in the field I would think Obama deserves the Physics prize as well, no? Talk about double standards!

“That’s a citation, Ryan”
Citing Zogby’s comment on something is not citing his poll.
Seriously how dishonest can you get?
(note to Jenny the above is what is known as a rhetorical question and does not actually require an answer)

Citing Zogby’s comment on something is not citing his poll.
Seriously how dishonest can you get?
(note to Jenny the above is what is known as a rhetorical question and does not actually require an answer)
Posted by: Ryan C | Oct 9, 2009 3:02:50 PM
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Ryan, here’s a definition for you. CITATION: a. A quoting of an authoritative source for substantiation.
Listen – open your mind and read other opinions beside what the socialist left is feeding you. I promise it won’t hurt – it will broaden your mind. There are a few things that disturb me about what you said – that you don’t know the truth about the Honduras. Just reading all the facts about that situation will help you understand how brainwashed you have become while supporting obama’s socialism.
It wouldn’t hurt to try.

“Ryan, here’s a definition for you. CITATION: a. A quoting of an authoritative source for substantiation.”
Here’s what you wrote Jenny
“Ryan – you just tried to make your point using a Zogby poll.’
You were the one who cited Zogby’s poll.
What I stated was reaction to that poll from Zogby himself and Ed Morrissey at HotAir.
Seriously, how dishonest can one get.

“Listen – open your mind and read other opinions beside what the socialist left is feeding you. I promise it won’t hurt – it will broaden your mind.”
ROFLMAO!
Someone who parrots right wing talking points is telling me to open my mind.
Think for yourself, it might be an interesting change for you.

Someone who parrots right wing talking points is telling me to open my mind.
Think for yourself, it might be an interesting change for you.
Posted by: Ryan C | Oct 9, 2009 3:42:53 PM
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Ah, the socialist retort. It’s getting old, Ryan. Come up with a new one. I’m ready!

“Mister President, when did we install an ACORN Chapter in Oslo?”

Poor right wingers are so lost in the last century and then the glory of Shock and Awe which killed tens of thousands and maimed tens of thousands more . . . kill for peace, kill, kill, kill for peace.

Take that.. President of Brazil!!

===the comic tragedy of Palin is that her own exact words ===
Which words are you referring to?

===Last year SNL parodied Palin’s Couric interview largely by using the actual interview’s transcript with a few comedic flourishes. ===
Really? Then it wasn’t exact exact?

===Not exact exact. ===
Thanks for clearing that up.