• 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]

The View hosts got in the election spirit today, and each of them dressed up as a past POTUS. It should come as no surprise that Elisabeth Hasselbeck chose Ronald Reagan.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck, the most insufferable member of the View family — and that's hard to be — might have had enough of being the lone voice of conservative "reason" on the panel of liberal ladies. Rumor has it she might be leaving… of course, the second part of the rumor is that Fox News might be looking to hire her. Sherri Shepherd will be the only one to shed a tear. Click through for details.

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• First comes popping each others pimples, then comes marriage… [C&D]

• Will.i.am just hasn't been able to make it happen with this last CD. At least he made a hit song for Barack Obama. [SB]

• Nikki Blonsky, the star of Hairspray and Bianca Golden from the last season of America's Next Top Model got in a huge, random fight at the airport that ended with the arrest of Golden, Blonksy, and Blonsky's dad. Golden's mom was hospitalized. I'm so confused. [People]

• Rumor are has it Barbara Walters wants Sherri Shepherd off of The View. If it's true, it was only a matter of time. If it's not… it's only a matter of time. [Bossip]

Sherri Shepherd used some on-air time on The View today to address some of her quotes in a new issue of Precious Times, a black Christan women's magazine. Basically, she said she had more abortions than she could count (they left out part of the quote, she said) and that is she were Juanita Bynum should would be able to save Barbara Walters (a joke, she said). It was an awkward moment, even for The View.

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Picture it, the women on The View are discussing the dreaded n-word. Whoopi Goldberg is explaining why black comedians use it and why they should be allowed to — she's very frustrated. Elisabeth Hasselbeck doesn't understand. She starts to cry and seems to make the argument that we can't move forward in race relations if black entertainers keep using the word. I roll my eyes. Barbara is uncomfortable and interrupts. If you can't picture it, check out the video after the jump.

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It's Michelle Obama Wednesday here in the U.S.A., with our future first lady gracing the pages of our newspaper of record and guest hosting our, uh, bickering-women show of record. She also graces the cover of this week's Us Weekly with her husband.

First, let's discuss today's story about Obama in the New York Times. The reporters tell us that she is looking for a new introduction to the American people after some verbal missteps and blatant sexist and racist attacks from the GOP and MSM.

“You are amazed sometimes at how deep the lies can be,” she says in an interview. Referring to a character in a 1970s sitcom, she adds: “I mean, ‘whitey’? That’s something that George Jefferson would say. Anyone who says that doesn’t know me. They don’t know the life I’ve lived. They don’t know anything about me.”

Now her husband’s presidential campaign is giving her image a subtle makeover, with a new speech in the works to emphasize her humble roots and a tough new chief of staff.

Of course, part of this makeover has to do with her guest appearance on The View today. She gave all of the hosts her signature terrorist fist jabs. Unfortunately, that's all I can relay until I actually see the show.

UPDATE Thanks to New York Magazine's live blog* of today's show:

Joy, Sherri and Michelle are all standing up now interviewing a nutritionist. Michelle is tall. She is also very politic — not even stopping to make fun of prune juice, after Sherri and Joy do their best "Ew, mom!" faces. Michelle has toast, fruit, and bacon for breakfast. "We're bacon people," she admits about the Obama family. What could be more American than that?

Hear that Appalachia? Muslims aren't normally "bacon people." There's also nothing wrong with being Muslim, but that's beside the point.

Check out a brief clip below.

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On June 18, Michelle Obama will guest host The View, joining the ladies who laugh for an hour of gabbing. She was originally scheduled to merely appear as a guest on the show, but after John McCain’s wife Cindy got the chance to guest host, Michelle wanted her turn, too. So exec producer Bill Geddie signed her right up.

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If I had any doubts that Barack Obama is my candidate for president, the fact that he was able to refrain from slapping Elisabeth Hasselbeck during his visit to The View today just erased them all. I think that must have taken a presidential amount of restraint. Of course the ladies, especially Barbara Walters and Hasselbeck, wanted to talk about Rev. Wright and had every right to do so, but all Hasselbeck did was ask questions he had already answered and prove, unequivocally, that people of her ilk simply don't care what Obama's answers to their Rev. Wright questions are unless it's, "I will never speak to him again, and I hope he burns in hell."

Incidentally, the women asked him about how he plans to avoid being swiftboated a la John Kerry, and he said the trick is to answer truthfully and forcefully, but also quickly, which is where Kerry went wrong. Whoopi Goldberg asked him what the first three things he would do in office were and he said, get out of Iraq, make health care happen, and solve the energy crisis, with some economic crisis management in between.

At the end of the segment, he added that Michelle Obama had no interest in becoming involved in presidential politics, but when they told him he should come back, he was like, uhh…maybe you should invite Michelle instead. Going on The View twice in a campaign is too much, if only because Joy Behar and Sherri Shepherd both looked like they were plotting to rape him backstage and Barbara Walters actually referred to him as "sexy-looking."

The ladies on The View disagree about religion, abortion, politics, and the shape of the world, but one thing they all agree on is that Whoopi Goldberg, as the first black person and woman to host the Academy Awards, should have been included in a montage of past Oscar hosts during last nights ceremony. This is actually sort of touching. Goldberg certainly thinks so.

VOTE SHERRI SHEPHERD IN! Sherri Shepherd is 41 and has never voted. Not because she believes her vote doesn't count, not because she never came across a politician she felt deserved her vote, and not because she's a convicted felon. It's because she “never knew the dates or anything.” Wonderful. Somebody get this woman a coveted spot on a daytime television show. Oh! Done.

Diddy was on The View today talking about how his daughter changed his life (but clearly didn't help him to respect their mother or women in general), explaining how young kids can become entrepreneurs, and heavily plugging Ciroc vodka, and promoting the preservation of Whoopi Goldberg's "sexy." As ridiculous as his segment sounds, the ladies didn't stop smiling the whole time.