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WolverineDG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-08 07:51 PM
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Just after THE MOMENT with my Obama peeps



Two days on & I'm still getting verklempt.

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sonias Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-08 08:04 PM
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1. Honey I still pinch myself
I don't think I believed it Tuesday night. I was so nervous they would cheat again. Thank god for those Democratic secretaries of states in those swing election states!

I just got this from a friend
Andy Borowitz blog
Failure to Blow Election Stuns Democrats
Party Faithful Mourn End to Losing Tradition


Just minutes after their party's longstanding losing tradition lay in tatters on the ground, millions of shell-shocked Democrats stared at their television screens in disbelief, asking themselves what went right.

For Democrats, who have become accustomed to their party blowing an election even when it seemed like a sure thing, Tuesday night's results were a bitter pill to swallow.

The head-shaking and finger-pointing over the demise of the Democrats' losing streak, which many of the party faithful had worn like a badge of honor, reached all the way to the upper echelons of the Democratic National Committee.

(snip_
"Somehow, despite our best efforts to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, we won," he said. "I came in here with a mandate to blow this thing and I didn't get it done."


:rofl:


Sonia







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PDittie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-07-08 07:18 AM
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2. My wife bawled like Jesse Jackson
The scene at the HCDP was mad. There were thousands of people where hundreds could only fit. We went upstairs to Rick Noriega's and Jim Henley's hospitality suites and they were SRO also.

It was big exhale for me. Then a little decompression. I think I may have finally caught up on my rest.
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