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    Obama’s Nobel prize, news of which made Bono flash back to his infamous on-mic remark—along the lines of “you’re f-ing kidding!”—when he received a Golden Globe award in 2004 for a song he tossed together and handed off to a soundtrack producer. "One imagines President Obama did the same when he heard about his Nobel" Bono wrote. “And not out of excitement.” President Obama must have thought: either there’s been a mistake, or Norway’s committee just gave America’s Obamaphobes another talking point to sandwich between ads on the Fox network. Full Article at PopMatters
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  1. I didn’t know I was Irish until I went to America
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  2. You know I believe it / But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for.
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  3. In dangerous, clangorous times, the idea of America rings like a bell
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  4. And not out of excitement.
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