A Prize For President Palin

October 17, 2009 at 4:48 pm
So Obama got a Peace Prize? Meh. He’s only 15th where it counts. President Palin will do better than that.
From Politico:
“President Barack Obama may have been granted a Nobel Peace Prize, but that doesn’t mean that every top honor comes to him easily. The new website “Hottest Heads of State” has ranked the attractiveness of 172 world leaders, and Obama comes in 15th behind such notables as Ukraine’s Yulia Tymoshenko, Norway’s Jens Stoltenberg, Belarus’s Alexander Lukashenko and Argentina’s Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.”

Tymoshenko came in first. That one, we can all understand. She might even compete with Sarah Palin on something like this, although we’d have to see them both in boots to make a really informed decision.

Stoltenberg (above right), okay, he’s got kind of a Clive Owen thing going, and nobody would argue against Argentina’s de Kirchner (top left). But Lukashenko with a high ranking position (above left)? You’ve got to be joking.
Obama can take some comfort, however, in the fact that he beat Russia’s Vladimir Putin, France’s Nicolas Sarkozy and Iran’s resident nut-job Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
McDoom ranks a pathetic 84th, just ahead of Manmohan Singh of India but is pipped by Tertius Zongo of Burkina Faso (Upper Volta as TheEye was taught in skule) in the lower-right picture.
Amid keen competition and jockeying for bragging-rights in the lower ranked positions, Kim Jong Il is rated the world’s least hot ruler, behind Pope Benedict XVI.