Howard gets presidential award.

[uriel1972]

From ninemsn.

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Former prime minister John Howard will receive the highest civilian honour a US president can bestow during a White House ceremony next week.

Mr Howard, along with former British prime minister Tony Blair and Columbia's president Alvaro Uribe, has been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Just ugh

[gemini_liberal]

1. Is anyone surprised?

Or more to the point: does this affect anything at all? Both Bush and Howard are now completely irrelevent. Let them have their little circle-jerk...

[Esra Star]

2. It's the reward for doing well

at obedience school.
Sit boy. Good doggie.
Here's a biscuit.

I think these awards are for compulsive arse kissing.

[Matilda]

3. Mark Latham didn't get much right,

but when he referred to the Howard government as "a conga-line of suckholes", he was spot-on.

Led by the dickhead-in-chief, John Winston Howard.

He is so yesterday's man ...