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By Christopher Beam and Chris WilsonPosted Friday, May 29, 2009, at 5:41 PM ET
Barack Obama created the group Close Guantanamo!
Mitch McConnell created the group KEEP TERRORISTS OUT OF AMERICA!@!1
Ramzi Yousef, Zacarias Massaoui, Ahmed Ressam, Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, and Wadih el-Hage created the group Terrorists Already in America.
The group Republicans posted a note: Nancy Pelosi Approved Torture.
Nancy Pelosi
Did not.
Republicans
Did too.
Nancy Pelosi is in China.
Arnold Schwarzenegger sent California a request for $21 billion.
California sent Arnold Schwarzenegger a flaming turd.
Gay People sent California a request for Marriage.
California sent Gay People a flaming turd.
America sent California a request for A Good Summer Movie.
California sent America a flaming turd.
Joe Biden is in Kosovo.
Joe Biden
Agh! The snipers!
Hillary Clinton
Very Funny.
RNC created the group The Democrat-Socialist Party.
Michael Steele
Guys, this is retarded.
RNC created the group The Democrat Party Is Socialist.
Michael Steele
Better.
Levi Johnston updated his Education and Work info to "Baby-daddy."
Dick Cheney created the event Speech Denouncing Barack Obama.
Barack Obama created the event Speech Pre-empting Dick Cheney.
Dick Cheney
Preemption ... Feels good, don't it?
Sonia Sotomayor took the quiz What Ethnicity Are You? with the result "Hispanic."
Sonia Sotomayor took the quiz What Gender Are You? with the result "Female."
Sonia Sotomayor took the quiz Which Disney Movie Are You? with the result "All of Them."
Barack Obama and Sonia Sotomayor are now friends.
NARAL is nervous :-\
Newt Gingrich posted a link: "A Latina Judge's Voice," by Sonia Sotomayor, 2001.
Rush Limbaugh
Racist.
Newt Gingrich
Bigoted.
Jeff Sessions
Not gay! (right?)
Joe Biden is in Bosnia-Herzegoanviwhatever.
Hillary Clinton
It's Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Joe Biden
Oh, I Bosnia'd Herzegovina, all right.
Hillary Clinton
Please stop.
The group FBI posted the audio clip Roland Burris Offering Money to Rod Blagojevich.
Roland Burris
Proves nothing.
Rod Blagojevich
Can we still do the fundraiser?
Kim Jong-il is testing his nukes.
Barack Obama sent Kim Jong-il a Really Stern Warning.
Kim Jong-il drew on Barack Obama's wall using the Graffiti application.
Barack Obama removed "Disarmament" from his interests.
Levi Johnston is working hard on his memiors.
Levi Johnston got a high score on Mafia Wars.
Joe Biden is in Sarajevo.
Joe Biden
Now I know which ambassadorship I want in 2016...
Chris Dood
?
Joe Biden
Let's just say, the ladies here aren’t exactly "Balkan" ...
Chris Dood
I don't follow.
Hillary Clinton
Other people can see this, you know.
Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu are now friends.
Barack Obama and Mahmoud Abbas are now friends.
Barack Obama
OK sweet so now what?
Joe Biden installed the application Twitter.
Robert Gibbs
FML
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Christopher Beam is a Slate political reporter. Follow him on Twitter. Chris Wilson is an assistant editor at Slate in Washington, D.C. Follow him on Twitter.
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