Today's "Are You Sure This Isn't from the Onion?" Moment

Ah, good ol' Sniffs: worried that she'll be overshadowed by her mini-me Michelle Bachmann, steps up to the plate:

Palin responded, "That was another one of those WTF moments when [Mr. Obama] so often repeated the 'Sputnik Moment' that he would aspire Americans to celebrate. He needs to remember that what happened back then with the former communist USSR and their victory in that race to space, yeah, they won, but they also incurred so much debt at the time that it led to the inevitable collapse of the Soviet Union."

On one hand, it's curious that someone who wraps herself up so readily in the American flag of blind, unquestioned American exceptionalism now seems to think America shouldn't do things anymore that are, you know, exceptional, and should just collectively sit on the big beanbag chair in our dorm until our Little Caesar's tab is paid up.  On the other hand, I have no idea where the water goes when I flush the toilet, so what the fuck do I know?