In one of “Saturday Night Live’s” most brilliant skits in recent memory, Will Ferrell reprised his role as the flailing current president last night in a special Thursday edition of the famed late-night show. In the skit, Bush offered “McRage” and “the Hot Lady,” played by Tina Fey, of course, “what every candidate wants most: a prime-time, heavily-publicized network endorsement from George W. Bush.”

The highlights: Bush tells Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, “My god, you are folksy,’ before explaining the job of the vice president as “the most important office in the land. The vice president decides when we go to war, how we tax the citizens and how we interpret the Constitution. The president can do nothing without checking with the vice president.”

Classic.

Standing next to Gov. Sarah Palin, Clinton said she was surprised to learn that “people suddenly care” about sexism, but the New York senator still urged the press to “grow a pair” and scrutinize the Alaskan’s record. Clinton was played, as usual, by Amy Poehler, while Tina Fey christened the caricature of Palin. Palin may not know what the Bush Doctrine is, but in Fey’s rendition, she can see Russia from her house!