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Before we head over to the Election Night Results Party (where we may or may not be able to blog), we just wanted to say to all of you out there what an honor and a priviledge it was to be here at HillBuzz for this election.

We started this blog one day in February because the Obamedia kept depressing Hillary Clinton’s supporters with nonstop pro-Obama lies, in a concerted effort to demoralize Clinton’s base and keep them from voting. The Obamedia, with MSNBC the most biased and flagrant, tried every trick in the book to push Clinton out of the race. In the process, they bred people we call “Eeyores” in the campaign’s midst — those so depressed from watching the news they’d just give up, stop volunteering, and roll around on the ground in the fetal position wailing, “Doom! We’re all doomed! The TV told me so and I can’t think for myself!  Doomed!”.

Well, we got bombarded with Eeyore phone calls and emails — some of these people would honestly depress  us so badly that we’d have to go for runs around the block to get our groove back, to get that energy the Eeyores sucked from us. The weirdest thing about these people is that they want Obama to lose, but don’t realize how much they helped Obama by calling all of their friends, or emailing everyone they know, and depressing everyone with the lies they hear on TV. After this election, we are seriously going to sit down each of the Eeyores in our lives and have an intervention — because life is just too short, with too much to do, to spend your free time depressing people. Especially when you have been repeatedly told you do that on a regular basis.

Try walking on the sunny side of the street once in a while — and if you really believe the world is truly falling down around you, keep it inside because there’s no reason you have to take the rest of us down with you.

This election is over tonight — but Eeyores will face other challenges in the future, and we’d just like to see them address whatever frightens them next with more critical thinking, less blind trust in the media, and greater control over their daily freakouts. And please, for everyone’s sake, no more constant, soggy, rain clouds hovering over you all the time. To you, the glass is not only always half empty, but the water’s too warm, it tastes stale, there are spots left on it from the dishwasher, and you’re allergic to water.

Snap out of it, Eeyores!

But, we do owe Eeyores for HillBuzz, because we started blogging to address Eeyores directly, and to cut through the Obamedia’s propaganda. If MSNBC was Tokyo Rose, we felt like Resistance Radio — trying our best to tell you things the media wouldn’t.

Along the way, our champ, Hillary, was knocked from the race by a corrupt Democratic Party, drunk on Kool-Aid, so we forged new alliances to work our hardest to stop Obama and his socialist agenda from corrupting America (and making it more like scandal and graft-plagued Chicago).

We never had any Republican friends before, but we suddenly find ourselves with many. We’ve learned so much from all of them — and we hope they’ve learned a thing or two from moderate Clinton Democrats.

Obama and is campaign deliberately ripped the Democratic Party apart, but it united moderates of both parties,  who were able to put personal differences and partisan bias aside and come together for the good of the nation. That is a beautiful, beautiful thing.

We canvassed 27 states for Hillary Clinton, and then McCain/Palin. We went places we never dreamed we’d go, and got to know people who have honestly changed our lives. We were never this actively involved in politics before, and are determined to maintain our efforts to bring bipartisan solutions to America’s biggest challenges. What we learned during this campaign is that there is so much more that unites us than divides us — there is no reason to fight yesterday’s battles on the fields of today, when so much needs to be done for tomorrow.

If we came together as Democrats and Republicans in 2008, why can’t we remain cooperative in 2009 and all years going forward? All of us are willing — will you join us? We won’t agree on everything, but if we keep looking for common ground, and starting there, we bet we’ll accomplish more together than anyone else has in a VERY long time.

Everyone at HillBuzz saw first hand that Republicans are good people who love this country — they differ than us in some matters, and those are strong differences at times, but at the end of the day, when America needs them, Republicans stand tall and answer that call. Democrats like us feel that way too. We might be a little different culturally, but we are all Americans.

We will no longer ever stand for Republican-bashing in liberal Democratic circles. Democrats can and should disagree with Republicans respectfully on matters of policy and practice, but the emphasis should be on respectfully. No more rancor. No more name-calling. No more hate. We now have Republican friends we want in our lives for keeps. And we would never allow anyone to talk badly of our friends. We’re so proud of Senator McCain and Governor Palin and the campaign they have run.  We genuinely like them both, as well as all of their supporters who’ve stopped by here at HillBuzz. You can count on us to tell any Democrat who starts partisan namecalling that, “Hey, we know some pretty great Republicans, and you’re talking about our friends there. Disagree with them, but then tell us how you think we can work together to do what’s right for America.”

We just hope some of you out there start doing the same thing for Democrats, in your own circles.

We hope you’ve seen that Hillary Rodham Clinton inspires this spirit in us.  We’ve never said she’s perfect. We never called her a Messiah or “The One”. She’s just an American who wakes up every day and fights tooth and nail to get all Americans healthcare, to make sure people have good jobs, and to finally cure this nation of its dependence on foreign oil. If you like all of us at HillBuzz even a little, we hope you know there’s a little bit of Hillary in us — so the things you like in us just might be in her too. Clinton Democrats never have to be your enemies. We really want the same things, but see different approaches to getting them.

Hillary Clinton and John McCain are friends who will always work together.

Here’s hoping we stay friends too, and continue to work together.

This is what we are thinking about tonight, as we start to think of what we’ll do with our days and nights starting tomorrow.

After that long nap of course!

From the bottom of our hearts, thank you all for your passion and for being such a committed part of this election. We will never forget this experience, and hope you stop by HillBuzz going forward as we chart our next course — always with the goal of working together for what’s best for ALL Americans, regardless of party.

- The HillBuzz Guys