Yes, 10:00pm (Wisconsinstan Time) on Tuesday was one of those “where were you when” moments.  (Me?  Driving north from Beloit with a friend, returning from poll-watching to the Democratic Party of Wisconsin get-together in downtown Madison.)

It was a nervy day.  Even as the initial returns came in, we were knocking on all forms of wood. (Get yer minds out of the gutter.)  In the final minutes before 10:00, however, when he and I were driving home and realizing that California et al would put Barry over the top, I told him, “you know what this is?  A repudiation of George W. Bush.” 

It turns out that apart from “change” and “hope,” that word was on the tips of other tongues. It crossed the ink-stained lips of the New York Times.  The second paragraph of the Page 1 article in Wednesday’s paper?  Yep, yep:

The election of Mr. Obama amounted to a national catharsis — a repudiation of a historically unpopular Republican president and his economic and foreign policies, and an embrace of Mr. Obama’s call for a change in the direction and the tone of the country.

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Barney the White House dog is reportedly a roiling cauldron of seething hate as far as anything Caligutard is concerned – hardly surprising given that the lame duck president’s likeability quotient falls somewhere between gangrene and Jeffrey Dahmer.

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Ever since former New Jersey governor Cristy Todd Whitman gave Caligutard the black terrier, the Secret Service has observed an air of tension, finally flourishing into outright disdain between the dog and the Caligutard. Agents confided that Barney regularly beat the president at Crazy Eights and always guesses the Jeopardy questions correctly before Bush could even sound out the answer clues.

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Flippin Eck has added some wonderful Grant Park photos to our Election Jam. Relive the moment, and invite a hundred friends to huddle around your computer to get the proper feel of it.

Stinque the Vote!

Krugman points us to the alternative universe that is the WSJ editorial page:

The treatment President Bush has received from this country is nothing less than a disgrace. The attacks launched against him have been cruel and slanderous, proving to the world what little character and resolve we have. The president is not to blame for all these problems. He never lost faith in America or her people, and has tried his hardest to continue leading our nation during a very difficult time.

Our failure to stand by the one person who continued to stand by us has not gone unnoticed by our enemies. It has shown to the world how disloyal we can be when our president needed loyalty — a shameful display of arrogance and weakness that will haunt this nation long after Mr. Bush has left the White House.

I do not think the word “slanderous” means what the writer thinks it means.

The author of this bit of fiction is one Jeffrey Scott Shapiro – more on him after the jump.

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BO and his staff must have some dirt on some of the people that “supported him” [ontherocks, 7:41 pm]

As Rush Limbaugh said today, 57 million said “no” to Obama, and 10 million white did NOT vote as compared to 2004. That means 67 million people did not choose Obama. WE are the majority! [Ex-DemInVA, 7:45 pm]

We are on the path way to hell….as I told my mom through tears last night. I was scared that us PUMA’S might be put into concentration camps or things like the sort. I remember telling my best friend: How do you think we’ll die there….? [MakowashiNatsuko, 7:51 pm]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWZHTJsR4Bc

Sarah Palin had to be told Africa was a continent, not a country. Need we say more?

Actually, yes. Lower-left corner: Fox News. Upper-left corner: Live. Not shown: Massive fainting.

And by the way, Rupert Murdoch’s empire lost twenty percent of its value today. Technically unrelated, but still.

That's some impressive wood you've got there, Randy.

Holy fuck y’all, Cynica was right – Sarah Palin really is the new Eva Peron!  Besides the new yumminess about her wardrobe previously covered by Nojo (again, if homofascist could get a rich Republican asshole to sponsor a shopping trip with little supervision, well, the result would be pretty much the same), there is a new story that she may have been using her feminine wiles to wreak havoc on the campaign.  Let’s talk about this latest development of implied slut-i-tude after the jump.

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