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“Melanie Phillips”, the long-running British satire on pig-ignorant, swivel-eyed, paranoid, bellicose and vicious Yahooism, outdoes “herself” on this historic day on which a historical change in history itself has been happened by ourselves, the needy we changed.

Howls “Melanie”, “her” last hold on grammar burned away by the pyroclastic slime of “her” own gibbering hatred:

[T]he enemies of America, freedom and the west will certainly be rejoicing today. [...] Obama has said in terms that he thinks the US constitution is flawed. America’s belief in itself as defending individual liberty, truth and justice on behalf of the free world will now be expiated instead as its original sin. Those who have for the past eight years worked to bring down the America that defends and protects life and liberty are today ecstatic. They have stormed the very citadel on Pennsylvania Avenue itself.

Millions of Americans remain lion-hearted, decent, rational and sturdy. They find themselves today abandoned, horrified, deeply apprehensive for the future of their country and the free world. No longer the land of the free and the home of the brave; they must now look elsewhere.

Sturdy ?

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