As you can imagine, racists have been having a rough go of it since last Tuesday, when American voters changed history by electing the nation's first black President. Though most of the bigots have simply been sulking, wondering how soon the Negro Police would be by for the deeds to their homes, others have lashed out, like Murfreesboro Post columnist Stephen Lewis.

The embittered Lewis took to the pages of his small-time Tennessee paper to angrily mock the President-elect with a song he wrote based on a familiar, campy television theme. Can you guess which theme? Here's some sample lyrics: "Well we’re movin’ on up/ To Washington, D.C./ To a deee-luxe pimp pad/ Painted whiiiite."

Full lyrics after the jump.

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The 2008 presidential election was about change, certainly. Barack Obama's victory shows, not only that people were ready to promote someone other than a older white male to the highest office in the land, but that the disastrous Bush administration has caused a dramatic ideological shift from right to left in our country. Above is a map from the New York Times. The blue parts of the map show areas where voters shifted further to the left since 2004; the red areas (notice Appalachia) show where voters got more conservative. Dramatic, huh?

• Everyone on The View will be happy when this election is over and Elisabeth Hasselbeck shuts up about William Ayers and Rev. Wright already. [MG]

• This episode of the Tyra Show could really not be more disturbing. [D-Listed]

• You might not know this, but the election is all about Diddy. Also, it's his birthday. [MTV]

• Ten reasons why you should ignore exit polls. [538]

• What happens when you love Obama… but can't vote. [Afrobella]

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The presidential debates would have been so much more interesting if Barack Obama and John McCain had somehow incorporated T.I. songs into their answers.

Charles Barkley sat down with CNN's Campbell Brown last night to talk politics and discuss his plans to run for governor of his birth state. He's been talking about it for a while, but it sounds like Barkley is officially going to try to make it happen in Alabama in 2014. He feels good about it, mainly because, as he says, there's not much he could do to screw up Alabama at this point.

It's not going to have any effect realistically on my life who the president is. The reason I am supporting the Democratic Party, I think it is a bona fide tragedy what has happened to poor people in this country and the gap between the rich and the poor is wider than it has ever been. You got this bailout situation, I just think it's a travesty… I plan [running for governor of Alabama] in 2014.., I am [serious], I can't screw up Alabama… We are number 48 in everything and Arkansas and Mississippi aren't going anywhere.

And another one!

A new phony flyer being distributed throughout Virginia's Hampton Roads localities advises recipients that Republicans are to vote for president on November 4, while Democrats are to vote on November 5.

Actually, Election Day for all Virginia voters is November 4.

Bearing the seals of both the State of Virginia and the Virginia State Board of Elections, the flyer appears professional, though it is rife with spelling errors. Its final paragraph notes, "We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause but felt this was the only way to ensure fairness to the complete electorial [sic] process."

Stare in awe at the latest in disgusting GOP race-baiting.

Distributed throughout the very white Wausau, Wisconsin, this flyer, which falsely bears the logo of the Obama campaign, asks voters to support Barack Hussein Obama II(?). Obviously written by someone attempting to mimic leftist black propaganda, the text notes that a vote for Obama II is also a vote for BLACK EMPOWERMENT!!!

November 4 can't come soon enough.

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There's been lots of talk about how Barack Obama might transition into the presidency if he wins. But a win for Obama would also mean a vacancy in the Senate. Who would take his place? It's no easy question — Obama is currently the only black U.S. senator and he's one of just three black senators since Reconstruction. The pressure is on Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich to appoint a successor who would satisfy the constituents, but the Chicago Defender, the city's historical African American newspaper, is trying to make things easier for him. This weekend, the paper endorsed Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. as Obama's potential replacement:

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Remember earlier when we were all, "Hahaha! Colin Powell dances funny!" and left it at that, because all we were talking about was a stupid picture of an old guy dancing? Here's the ever-wearying Fox News' take on that very same, seemingly meaningless photo:

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McCain-Palin rally attendees are now so furious about the possibility of tremendous power being placed into the hands of a terrorist black Muslin that they've taken to shouting down the very people they've come to see.

Yesterday's rally in Milwaukee, dubbed by Radar as "the angriest McPalin rally ever," found Senator McCain berated not once but twice by people ostensibly supporting him.

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