Somewhere in Hope a Clinton is Crying

Wherever you live you probably woke up the way I did this morning...

To more of that promised Change we've been Hoping we'd seen enough of:

BREAKING: BARACK OBAMA WINS IDITAROD!!!!

Okay, maybe he didn't actually win THAT. Put away your Rocky Patel cigars Palin-haters.

I was actually referring to this other story that became so virulent on the cable channels I'm fairly certain there is already a tie-in on a few shopping channels:

"It would be wonderful if I could think why he won," said Claire Sprague, 82, a retired English professor as she walked her dog in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. "They wanted to give him an honor I guess but I can't think what for."

Hospital worker Itya Silverio, 33, of Brooklyn, said: "My first opinion is that he got it because he's black. What did he do that was so great? He hasn't even finished office yet."

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who won the prize in 2002, said Obama's win showed hope he had inspired globally.

"It is a bold statement of international support for his vision and commitment to peace and harmony in international relations," Carter said in a statement.

Some Americans resented Obama's popularity in Europe and other parts of the world.

"Obama gives speeches trashing his own country and he gets a prize for it," said conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh, who has a wide following.

The peace prize announcement quickly became one of the top discussions on social networking website Twitter. One user commented: "Why not give him the literature prize? At least he's actually written a couple of books."

Political blogger Jon Henke tweeted: "So far, the right, left and media all seem to agree that the Nobel Peace Prize committee just beclowned itself."

You think?

Apparently noone on the SuperDuper Secretive Nobel prize committee remembers 'Bama's Good Works campaigning for his cousin Raila Odinga down Kenya-way:



The committee already made a mockery of itself and its name when it awarded Al Gore the prize for his powerpoint presentation on global warming, thereby completely exposing themselves for what they were and are: political puppets.

Still.. even as people on "both sides of the aisle" expressed surprise at the president's being named winner, I thought this was one of the more shocking items of the day:

"OBAMA WON?"

An online straw poll by MSNBC asked whether Obama deserved the honor. About 62 percent of more than 194,000 answers said no, about 24 percent said yes, while 13 percent said some day, but the award was premature.

62% of people voting on an MSNBC poll think Obama DOESN'T deserve the award? The only sense I can make of that statistic is that they're all people who bought the Obama "Si Se Puede!" t-shirt in the NBC gift shop and watched it shrink in just one washing.