Via FOX News:

Barbra Streisand got an awkward kiss on the cheek from the president, and yes, she gave him a smooch back.

Streisand, a vocal critic of President George W. Bush, was a guest at the White House just before one of Washington's few A-list events: the Kennedy Center Honors.

Babs was being praised in DC along with country music legend George Jones, modern dance legend Twyla Tharp, rock opera legends Roger Daltry and Pete Townsend, and fictional black president legend Morgan Freeman.

But the Bush/Babs kisses, were they not the biggest story of all for a nation so desperately in need of political healing? Well, if but for a night, Barbara's lips graced the actual skin upon her nemesis' cheeks, not some Hollywood actor's (and Streisand step-son) approximation of that skin.

In other news, GM may well go out of business, India and Pakistan edge closer to war, and the US is worried about Kabul falling to the Taliban. But those kisses, oh, those sweet, awkward kisses! Do they not, if but for a fleeting moment, help take the edge off of our otherwise edgy world?

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