President Obama today achieved his long-sought goal of overcoming the nation’s factional divide as all sides of the political spectrum
came together to agree that he did not deserve the Nobel Peace Prize.
Republicans, Democrats, and independents were in unprecedented agreement, as politicians and citizens alike registered
their astonishment and outrage at the Nobel committee’s selection.
Rush Limbaugh and Keith Olbermann were spotted in a bar in New York City, buying each other drinks and sharing snide bon mots about the award.
Even Obama himself
joined in the condemnation. “What the hell have I done to deserve such a lofty honor?” he said in a nationwide address. “I’ve got two wars going, I haven’t closed Gitmo and God only knows what Blackwater and the CIA are up to. This is indeed ridiculous.”
The wave of bipartisan good feeling that swept over Washington was so intense, political experts prophesied that the Democrats’ health-care reform initiative would now sail through Congress, public option included.
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