Exclusive photo from the dress rehearsal for tomorrow night's extravaganza:
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According to Cavuto there were cries of "No!" at the meeting where she made the announcement.

Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.

``I am here today to release you,'' she said in a meeting with her delegates. ``I am not telling you what to do. I signed my ballot this morning for Senator Obama.''

Obama, of Illinois is set to formally become the Democratic nominee this afternoon in Denver after a roll-call vote of state delegations.

According to Major Garrett on Fox they have collected the tally sheets. At 7pm they do the official nominating speeches and the roll call. Apparently there's some deal where Hillary will announce the NY tally which will go overwhelmingly for Obama despite the outcome of the actual vote in New York.

Selected not elected!

Oh...Joe Biden, the 3rd Senator from PA and the VP nominee will speak tonight. Can't you feel the excitement for him?

Delicious bit of awesomeness on Fox...A Hillary delegate (Michael Wagner, an old, white guy) says Obama's unity efforts remind him of Russia's efforts to unify with Georgia.

PUMAs!!!!! Attack!!!!!!

Posted by: DrewM at 12:24 PM | Comments (21)
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First Scarlett Johanson. Okay, no big deal. It's not like I was second on the list anyway.

But now my darling Anne Hathaway?

"I was kind of afraid of [Barack] Obama the first time I saw him... I was afraid to trust him and I was afraid to have hope when I first kind of became aware of him. It was around the time that he gave his speech on race that I just said 'I can't deny how I feel about you, Barack Obama.'"

Damn you, sir. Damn you to hell.

Oh well. I guess maybe there's still Kate Winslet. For now.

(Pretty sure Natalie Portman was lost a while ago, Star Wars geeks.)

Thanks to someone.

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This right here is some funny shit.

In a video blog, P. Diddy is complaining that he actually has to take commercial flight rather than his own jet due to the high cost of fuel.

"This shit is really happening!" he tells us.

Thanks to tmi3rd.

Posted by: Ace at 11:36 AM | Comments (25)
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Hot Air has the video.

Yesterday's pictures were indistinct enough to make me wonder whether this stage was meant to resemble the Lincoln Memorial. Obama's speech takes place on the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech so maybe they were once again using well-known imagery in an attempt to fill the empty suit.

Close ups of the stage, though, make me reconsider that assumption. That really doesn't look like the Lincoln Memorial - just a flashy facade that will make Obama's followers supporters fall prostrate in worship of their god-king-emperor.

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McCain's new ad. more...

Posted by: Ace at 11:24 AM | Comments (16)
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Epic hilarity as the Dems have moved the actual nomination vote to the darkest, least transparent places imaginable: Their hotels.

Hot Air has more, but not this gem...

Sullivan said she had been startled by the hostility toward Clinton on the part of some Obama supporters.

"The Obama people act like they lost," she said.

Posted by: Open Blog at 11:10 AM | Comments (17)
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Obama's friend, the murderer.

I was trying to cut out parts I wanted to quote -- but I can't. The full thing needs to be read.

It's short and chilling. And these are the charming fixtures of the Chicago mainstream Obama calls friends.

Also check out Hot Air, and click on the "Who killed Sgt. Brian O'Donnell?" link.

(Answer: Bernadette Dohrn, the fourth in the Ayers/Barack/Michelle double-date quartet.)

Posted by: Ace at 11:01 AM | Comments (18)
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Kinda having blog burnout today, and the cobloggers seem to be a bit slackerly too (bastards!), so why not have a little Open Blog action?

I'm still posting and stuff. So are the cobloggers. But it's a holiday and everything (Humpday) so why not open it up.

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Lovely.

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