White House spokesman Tony Fratto: "Of course we’re happy for Vice President Gore"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Gore and U.N. Panel Win Peace Prize for Climate Work
By WALTER GIBBS
Published: October 13, 2007

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/13/world/13nobel.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1&hp&oref=slogin

OSLO, Oct. 12 — The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded today to Al Gore, the former vice president, and to the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for its work to alert the world to the threat of global warming.

In this decade, the Nobel Peace Prize has been given to prominent people and agencies who differ on a range of issues with the Bush administration, including former President Jimmy Carter, who won in 2002, and the United Nations’ nuclear monitoring agency in Vienna and its director, Mohamed ElBaradei, in 2005.

In Washington, a White House spokesman, Tony Fratto, was quoted by Reuters as saying: “Of course we’re happy for Vice President Gore and the I.P.C.C. for receiving this recognition.”

Global warming has been a powerful issue all this year, attracting more and more public attention.



The chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Ole Danbolt Mjoes, in Oslo, Norway, today.

[aquart]

1. "Of course"????? Could they be more grudging?

Nasty troll-beings who should forever live under collapsing bridges.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

2. They probably chose "of course" instead of...

"Why WOULDN'T we be happy for Vice President Gore," because it sounded warmer.

:rofl:

[angstlessk]

3. The best revenge is a good life, and Al Gore has had a

MOST EXCELLENT, GREAT LIFE since 2000...and revenge is granted by default!

[DinahMoeHum]

4. Heh, heh. Choke on it, Chimpy !!

:P :P :P

[soothsayer]

5. Tony Fratto sounds like such a Sopranos name.