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<title>robingee</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:19:11 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Wow, all of the anti-Obama people are racist homophones and not very smart. Thank goodness I am on the winning team!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:09:38 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;seen/scene at Harlem last night - amazing !&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:09:29 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Beautiful speeches, well written and executed by a colorful and charismatic man now president elect of the united states of America. there is no question whatsoever many people feel a great sense of hope for unity and change by the election of Barack Obama. In the words of Barack himself, the time has now come for YOU Americans to be volunteers and progressive activists in Americas future. the time is now for YOU to do something as America faces very severe problems in economy,war,global warming and more.

My opinion, in my 19 straight months on the net amongst all the Americans as i try desperately to uncover my science experiments to end global warming-war for oil- alleviate costs for energy- I have found no Hope and assistance from fellow Americans. I believe the change all ask for is because they all know inside something is very wrong all around them- it is YOU. YOU are the problem, and YOU are the solution. In my opinion America drifted into an atheistic secular dog eat dog attitude towards one another and may the best man win.

To all who have shed a tear for Obama win in the feeling of hope and change, here is your chance. i don’t want your money, just your actions as an American trying to find a solution for our country. I risked my life to hand build and survive a one million volt experiment for all of us. I feel successful  and the only way to be proven true is to have my dangerous experiment repeated by a credible university for truth. Since it is very dangerous and only several universities even have the proper equipment, i have narrowed it down to Princeton university to provoke.

If you care for a possible solution to alleviate most of the crisis president elect Obama is running for, if not the world, pressure Princeton university(or something you feel) and do something. I try everyday and it is ridiculous and disheartening the amount of  no support but rather abuse and ridicule for people who try.

Your choice. Free will. do something for all of us and we all win. do nothing for all of us and the problems get worse.Here is YOUR chance to implement change- what will you do.

sincerely

Solomon Azar-19 months to a deaf non caring america-what has changed?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:29:15 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m surprised how happy this election makes me.  I thought I was a jaded, middle-aged NYer.  But voting last night, as I pulled the lever indicating my vote for Obama, I realized how much we&apos;ve grown as a nation.  I was born before there was a civil rights amendment.  I was born in a time when blacks and whites had seperate facilities.  Yes, I grew up in NY, so my family didn&apos;t see it, but it was a reality.  Today, we have a president-elect who represents so many people&apos;s hopes.  As I jew, I dream of the day when a jew will be accepted as a candidate.  I am sad that a woman, the candidate that I thought was better qualified, didn&apos;t get her party&apos;s nomination.  But I am elated that our nation was able to see past race and elect Obama, and that my children got to see it happen.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>allie25</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:41:59 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;felixthecat... your hatred amuses and scares me.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>ma bell</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:25:29 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;i&apos;m just happy obama has more grace and class then most of you fools.  as he talks about healing divides and moving on, most of you immature mental midgets are acting like second graders that just won a kickball game.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 03:36:07 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Just so Dude69 and Hugo_Mego/Bingo_Ramirez know, you are gigantic cunts. Please keep quiet now.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>edEx</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 03:34:40 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;WE&apos;RE FINALLY HERE and it feels great!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 02:05:25 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Today is &quot;point your stereo speakers out the window and play ELO with the volume turned up to 11&quot; day -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TLmpL2AzLs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98P-gu_vMRc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMWA9Gj_IUE

YAY OBAMA!!!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>SP</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 02:01:28 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;oh, and #15 FTW btw&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:59:09 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;you&apos;re not raining on my parade, frihole
I just crossed off the bullet with my name on it with yours.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>SP</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:57:18 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;HAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is a dream come true. Thank you America. I am proud to be an American, finally. We still have a lot of work to do. Tonight we celebrate, we rest, we dream. Tomorrow, we work.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:49:53 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;So now that the Obamessiah has been elected, when can I expect my first welfare check? 

Stupid Americans... two terms of Bush followed up by an empty sycophant who gives a good speech. We&apos;re beyond fucked.

Counting down the days until his inevitable impeachment (which will of course be blamed on race).&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:42:25 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;i am usually not the most emotional of people but tonight was a night i&apos;ll never forget. i joined a large crowd of people outside of columbia around 116th and broadway shortly after the results were announced, we then paraded up broadway and across 125th street. i have never seen so much happiness in all my life. everyone screaming, random strangers hugging and high-fiving, families banging pots and pans out of their windows, trucks and buses and POLICE CARS honking and waving. i had chills the whole time. i hope to see the videos and pictures that will no doubt flood the internet soon.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>Gina Gemini</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:18:54 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Barack Obama as our 44th president...I&apos;m still trying to wrap my head around this. I never thought I&apos;d see this in my lifetime. My mother, as a little girl, had to use &quot;For Colored Only&quot; restrooms, and less than 100 years later, this! This is the dawn of a new America.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>babyhitler</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:16:08 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;#91- that&apos;s very christian of you. Jesus not only loves dirty sanchez&apos;s, cleveland steamer&apos;s and donkey punch&apos;s but he loves it when he&apos;s boning 8 apostle&apos;s at once double anal style.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>matty</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:12:57 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;in chicago you retards

oh and here is me with the most beautful woman ever

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3215/3004054583_898842dbd0.jpg?v=0&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>rikomatic</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:01:49 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Union Square is going NUTS full of Obama revelers.  Some quick video as folks started pouring in and a giant flag was unfurled: http://www.rikomatic.com/blog/2008/11/yes-we-did-goba.html&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:00:49 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;if they lived in my block, i would see condoms on the streets and men sodomizing in the allies.  Thanks but no thanks.  I leave that to you babyhitler since it is your thing.  is babyhitler, the name your companions uses to refer to your small penis?  i can understand why you take the lord&apos;s name in vain since you are damn forever.  sick and sad.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:56:19 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;no babyhitler, it is quite obvious you like dick.  it explains a lot.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:54:47 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Gee. So surprised he didn&apos;t invite Wright and Ayers and Bin Laden up there. 

It&apos;ll be great to see the opposition have to eat their foolish, evil words. This man ran a clean campaign on the issues. He didn&apos;t attack. He inspired. 

Is he a great leader? He&apos;s lead. But will he be an amazing president? Who knows. But here&apos;s hoping...but at least we finally have some hope.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>HUGO_MEGO</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:52:15 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;The Cult of Obama has spoken. THE ONE has been elected. Believe of die. Kool-Aid will be served tomorrow.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>supernova</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:38:14 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Like I said earlier, I don&apos;t think most of these problem will be solved in 4 years either.

There are a lot of deep problems here, it takes planning and vision to take steps towards a solution. Even if you make the right choice tomorrow, it may take 2/3 years to really see a difference. 

We are hoping he has the vision to stop the downward spiral and start making those changes to will benefit us on the long term.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:37:17 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;#72- you should be happy that there are gay people around dude. If you  live next to them your property values skyrocket. If they get married can you imagine the drapes they would buy? I bet they&apos;d be so amazing that your home would triple in value by just being near their decorating skills.  ps- jesus loves dick.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>Jen S</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:33:52 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;YAY!  

It started to feel like an Oscar-winning rally speech, but then got real again.  I &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:31:18 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;in his speech tonight Obama said &quot;it might not even happen in one term&quot; alluding to great changes - he&apos;s giving himself a loooottt of leeway there, however yes he does have a lot of shit to sweep up from the past 8 years

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/nation_finally_shitty_enough_to&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:29:55 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;The eyes of the world are upon you. I pray you don&apos;t fail.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:27:53 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;agreed with nik13 as well.

What a great speech. We are hopeful things will be better. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:27:07 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Congratulations, President-Elect Obama.

Now don&apos;t suck.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:25:06 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;YES WE CAN!

Now, shut up and grow up, racist a-holes. The future is now.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:19:52 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;I don&apos;t think the issue of gay marriages is really effecting our lives as much as other pressing issues such as health care, decreasing the tax burden on the middle class, education etc. etc. etc.

@nik13 I agree. I guess now those that thought the whites were holding them back is kind of up for grabs right now.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:18:37 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;What a speech Obama gave! If he lives up to half that promise, get ready to blast some rock in South Dakota.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:15:08 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;send your &quot;in your face&quot; messages here, yeah, that&apos;s right

Good thing Obama has class to spare when he has people like you backing him.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:14:41 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;bittersweet victory.  I am happy Obama won but why democrats as Michael McMahon and Abbato who are rotten win the senate.  Now Gov. Patterson will legalize Gay Marriages in NYS.  Damn, that is not good at all.  &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:13:29 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;GW BUSH has just been toppled like that famous statue of Saddam in Bagdad !!!!!
(sounds of merry ak&apos;s firing into the air)&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:11:54 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;damn I wanted change but why NY senate and assembly controlled by democrats as well.  they will legalize gay marriages in NYC.  I wanted change but not sex change. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>nik13</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:09:01 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;From now on, no more whining that race stopped anyone from achieving anything. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:08:26 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;damn, I am happy Obama won but I wanted maltese and Stainere (republicans) to win and now pardavan is hanging by a thread.  Definitely Governor Paterson will legalize Gay marriages now which must please babyhitler.  &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>NannyState</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:03:27 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;We put a brother in the White House! Yes we did! And now let&apos;s see him put himself on Mount Rushmore!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>Snoopy</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:01:57 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;What is it with all these people saying he is black? The guys more white than black. Who raised him? Not his father that&apos;s for sure. Get over this and move on. In these times he is the better man to do the job then the other guy. Four more years of the same thing we have seen for the last six is not a solution.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:00:07 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m not that familiar with American politics but if the blue states win can they rape and pillage the red states?

They already did.  First Wall Street sucked America dry and then Washington bailed them out.  The line about the blue states paying most of the taxes got blown up since the taxes were based on salaries that were based on borrowed money.  &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:59:19 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;http://www.johnmccain.com/Contact/
http://www.gop.com/Connect/ContactUs.htm

send your &quot;in your face&quot; messages here, yeah, that&apos;s right&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:54:38 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;I have reason to live for tomorrow and throw away that bullet with my name on it. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:51:10 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;to all my brothers and sisters: here we go!
to my lily-white daughters: here we go!

lets go!!!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:49:30 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;fuck it was so good seeing republicans at the mccain concession turn green at the thought of a black president

 &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:40:47 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;You really have to ask yourself what were the republicans thinking when they brought Tina Fey, oops I meant Sarah Palin,into this exercise in poor choices. Did they think just because Hillary made a good showing, that America wanted a female up there as a running mate? What a bunch of idiots! 

OK! Now let&apos;s get our troops out of Iraq.Let the savages over there kill themselves off one by one. Perhaps the women over there will smarten up and stop having sex with those sand ....... so the problem doesn&apos;t continue for another 4,000 years.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:39:28 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;we did it!!!!!!!!
I feel like I&apos;ve awaken from a nightmare&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:38:27 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;I think that we can all agree that the best part of his election is that HUGO MEGO can go crawl back into his mother&apos;s basement apartment from whence his foul stench came.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:36:47 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;&quot;Thank God.

What a great night.&quot;

Priceless&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:36:45 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;@gimme,  Sorry, I meant the post above yours. Lots of furious little fingers tonight! Dude69, go crawl back into that coffin you share with Ides Of March and HUGO_MEGO.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>Steven</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:31:29 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;YES! DEMOCRATS RULE!!! &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:31:05 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;&quot;I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: &quot;We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.&quot;

May his soul rest in peace.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:30:56 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Thank God.

What a great night.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:29:33 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;and now if only Palin will crawl back to Alaska and stay there and never ever appear again! please dear god, thank you&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:28:25 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;^ Nanny nanny nanny, YOU go crawl back into the shitty toilet you crawled out from, don&apos;t deceive yourself into thinking YOU are an intellectual, doucher&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:27:39 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;McCain certainly seems well rehearsed in his concession speech. very disconcerting for republicans (HAAHHAHA)&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:26:36 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m not that familiar with American politics but if the blue states win can they rape and pillage the red states? &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:22:36 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;^ You&apos;re already in the intellectual poorhouse. Go climb back into your coffin.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:21:59 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Mac&apos;s tail is between his legs right now! he&apos;s conceding live..&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:20:30 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Alright, Obama is the 44th President of the USA!  Congrats to you liberals, let&apos;s see how what the next 4 years will bring, now with Democrats controlling both houses of Congress.  Obama has no one else to blame if he messes up.  Let&apos;s hope we are not taxed to the poor house before his 1 term is up.  

Palin 2012!!!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:20:12 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Iraq - Bush&apos;s call
Torturing in Guantanamo and CIA black sites - Bush&apos;s call
Wiretapping American civilians - Bush&apos;s call
Loss of opportunity post-9/11 to rally the world to America&apos;s side - Bush&apos;s call


Exactly.  Bush&apos;s call.  Not McCain&apos;s call. 


I won&apos;t even discuss the housing crisis and subsequent economic fallout, which was also on his watch.

Right again.  On Bush&apos;s watch.  Although I think Wall Street is responsible for about 90 percent of this mess.  

Funny how you didn&apos;t hear any Democrats getting worried in the 90s when Wall Street was getting over inflated on easy money.  Americans were borrowing from abroad.  Imports soared which kept inflation down but nobody gave a crap because the Nasdaq was at 5000.  Same forces at work but it didn&apos;t explode until 2007.  &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:20:08 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;ABC says Florida it&apos;s Obama, so are 333 votes. 

McCain is saying he congratulated Obama... MORE PARTY!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>Spiritof76</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:19:44 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;My fellow Americans. Our long national nightmare is over.
&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:18:14 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;To the Gothamist trolls:

suck on it.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>Neil Epstein</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:17:57 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Amazing times! I feel satisfied. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:16:02 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Change!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:15:19 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;People are setting off fireworks in my neighborhood! People are on the roofs screaming and applauding! GOBAMA!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:14:09 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Oh, the sweet scent of denial...&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:10:38 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;I demand a recount!  Restart the voting machines, there are many Republicans who haven&apos;t voted yet!!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:07:24 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;BabyH: Agree, WFuknBush was the worse that happen to the leadership of ANY NATION!

Let&apos;s welcome the future!

OBAMA is the future.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:04:43 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;OBAMA!LET&apos;S WELLCOME THE FUTURE!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:01:03 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;CNN says Obama has more tha enough votes to win....&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:56:34 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;McCain is ready to concede:

    PRESIDENT OBAMA!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:36:48 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Remember, a vote for Obama is a vote against the state of Israel! 


Go Obama!


(hehe)&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:32:54 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;If the McCain aids are saying it&apos;s hopeless.... maybe I should go down to the grocery store and buy some juicy vodka for meself... whooop!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:28:46 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;#31- While palin helped she was no force of Nature like George Bush. Obama did not transcend race, but Bush did. Every motherfucking person on the planet regardless of race, creed, social standing hates that motherfucker. My parents, who are crazy ass racist against african americans, even voted for obama cause bush fucked up so badly.  Bush has finally united the country AGAINST him. CNN polls had everyone hating Bush. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:20:53 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;All the mistakes this administration has made will undoubtedly affect the upcoming president, no matter who he is. 

Bush has been in the White House for 8 years, most of the problems this nation is facing right now are direct consequences of his policies. What do you expect? A pat on Bush&apos;s back after he hands it over?

All these problems will not be solved in 4 years either. I hope people realize that, if Obama wins it&apos;s not a magical potion that will make everything right after 3 months. This mess will take a lot of hard work.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:18:59 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Please break my losing streak, it sucks to vote for a loser since freshman year of college.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:14:29 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;don&apos;t give all the credit to Bush. Palin&apos;s nomination helped a lot! 
Idiocy became the badge of honor for Republicans.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:07:08 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s pretty obvious that people like you are going to blame for Bush for every failure of the next administration. Change indeed.

EastRiver, its a long held tradition to blame the previous party for at least the first year of the new administration&apos;s term.  This is why I didn&apos;t blame Bush for 9/11, nor for the dot com fallout.  But:

Iraq - Bush&apos;s call
Torturing in Guantanamo and CIA black sites - Bush&apos;s call
Wiretapping American civilians - Bush&apos;s call
Loss of opportunity post-9/11 to rally the world to America&apos;s side - Bush&apos;s call

I won&apos;t even discuss the housing crisis and subsequent economic fallout, which was also on his watch.

Enough already.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:04:20 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;obama&apos;s got 206 votes. it&apos;s over. You can guarantee that he&apos;ll get california&apos;s 50 and seattle and oregon. IT&apos;S OVER! I hope all you republican dickheads who voted for Bush twice feel as bad as I did in 00 and 04 with you new black prez. George Bush was responsible for America&apos;s first black president. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:59:41 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Don&apos;t underestimate the powah of de Terminatah.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:59:30 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;^ Some of us are literally drunk! I filled the fridge with Czechvar and with each swing state Obama wins....Swig State!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:59:22 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;No surprises.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:53:06 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;[13] We&apos;re just a little giddy, is all. After the nightmares of 2000 and 2004, you&apos;ll have to forgive us if we get a little &quot;drunk&quot; with an electoral massacre of Republican candidates, especially in the presidential race. Eight years is a long time to wait for sweet vindication.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:52:36 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Anyone who could vote for Mccain after Bush F-UCKS up the country for 8 years should be deported to Iraq or put in jail for treason.

I didn&apos;t vote for McCain but I can tell that Bush and McCain are two separate people.  Anyone that thinks like you should ask for the $1.50 you spent on your education.  Obviously you can&apos;t do anything more than regurgitate sound bites.  

Funny thing though is that now the pressure is even higher on the Democrats to perform because come 2010 the people that simply voted Democrat to vote against Bush are going to have a wandering eye.

It&apos;s pretty obvious that people like you are going to blame for Bush for every failure of the next administration.  Change indeed.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:50:33 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Ok -- to clarify that (because it was unnecessarily confusing and confused): Obama need only win CA, OR, and WA at this point to get to 270, and in 20 years those states have always gone solidly Dem.  So...unless this year is somehow different...&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:50:09 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;fuck yeah! The cool aid kept the republicans OUT!
&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:49:33 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Obama wins New Mexico!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:49:17 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;CNN just said it&apos;s impossible for McCain to win...&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:48:12 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;The news media isn&apos;t calling it, but I don&apos;t see how anyone thinks McCain could still win -- he&apos;d have to win California, Oregon, or Washington.  (On top of every other undecided state, of course.)  In 20 years, no Republican has won any of those three states.  I guess the other vague possibility is that there could be a state &quot;uncalled&quot; (i.e. Florida in 2000), but barring that...

Guys...I think it&apos;s over.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:47:05 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;I hold the party until after 11 pm, if you don&apos;t mind. It&apos;s tighter than I imagined it&apos;d be on the popular vote...

But I&apos;m psyched that it&apos;s going one way so early! Still, must remain calm.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:46:40 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Palin/McCain will pull this off, even if it goes to the Supreme Court, and Scalia will decide the election again!  All the liberal media will backtrack and put their feet in their collective mouths!

Palin/McCain 2008
&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:39:34 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;The McCain Victory party looks as if someone spiked the punch with Digitalis. Whatta bunch of creeps.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:38:44 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;lol @ McCain voting for Obama in that pic!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:34:16 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Watching all these number fly by your face with all these charts and these fucking computer maps is way too confusing. I&apos;m gonna party in Times Square like it&apos;s 1776. Here&apos;s Keith Olbermann skeeting in your face Ides of March.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:30:07 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Why are people being so suspenseful? It&apos;s obvious Obama will win by a landslide. 

And I voted for 3rd party yet I can see this clear as day.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:26:38 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;ABC projects Ohio for Obama! It&apos;s over! As if we needed any more proof.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:12:24 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;#2 Shinobi Shaw - yeah. I familiar with the media only representing two political parties. That&apos;s one of the reasons I left journalism. The media is a joke.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:00:15 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s a republican Massacre! the bodies are flying and the democrats are scalping the shit out of the red states. It&apos;s over before it even began. I thought McCain would bring it but his campaign was so limp, flaccid, and impotent that he&apos;d need a republican penis pump hail mary to even make this respectable. This is not a landslide. It&apos;s an avalanche! &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:55:46 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Kerry won NH and PA in 2004 as well.  I&apos;ll get excited when FL, CO, NM, and OH come in.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:50:59 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Obama wins NH!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:42:31 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Obama won PA! &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:28:28 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Some sources are beginning to call Penn for Obama.  He&apos;s going to win this thing.  

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/11/815-pm-update.html&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:25:51 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Is that Michelle there? Hmm, Barry could use an upgrade, and there would be plenty lining up...&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:25:45 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Looks like McCain is putting his ballot in the blue (paper?) recycling bin, while Cindy has her eye on the red (metal?) one.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:40:01 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Anyone who could vote for Mccain after Bush F-UCKS up the country for 8 years should be deported to Iraq or put in jail for treason.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:38:34 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;#1 don&apos;t you know? 3rd parties don&apos;t exist, we only get TWO options and that is it. Vote either for Obama or Mc Cain ONLY and bow to your master Slave!


&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:14:54 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;What about Nader, Barr, McKinney and Baldwin?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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