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Regarding BarackRoll'd: We must all pledge, each and every one of us, that when the history books are written about 2008, we swear on our honor that that really happened.
OK, I have another thought on that. Aside from the preening in-jokiness of it, which hopefully does not reflect that only insular netgeeks support Obama, it just says something about us that we imagine a prank like this turning the Republicans into cheering supporters, and they imagine pranks that turn Democrats into screaming caricatures of ourselves. Why, in their imagination, we might even be driven to use vulgar language.
Back to Hill 'n' Bill. Whatever goes on between the two of them, you know, obviously it works for both of them on some level. Bill seemed to take her loss more personally than she did.