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Recently-married Ellen DeGeneres has spoken out about the likelihood that the law is gonna screw her over, if/ when Proposition 8 passes… [Website – Amy Grindhouse].

“Watching the returns on election night was an amazing experience. Barack Obama is our new president. Change is here. I, like millions of Americans, felt like we had taken a giant step towards equality. We were watching history.

This morning, when it was clear that Proposition 8 had passed in California, I can’t explain the feeling I had. I was saddened beyond belief. Here we just had a giant step towards equality and then on the very next day, we took a giant step away.

I believe one day a ‘ban on gay marriage’ will sound totally ridiculous. In the meantime, I will continue to speak out for equality for all of us.”

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT PROPOSITION 8?

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I would like to start off by admitting that, as a Brit, about 90% of this election has gone right over my head. The only things that really stretched all the way over to this side of the Atlantic were the racism, mud-slinging and SNLoL appearances [Website – Amy Grindhouse].

TODAY HOWEVER, DID NOT GO OVER MY HEAD.

I have to start by telling y’all the single most important thing about today’s news; my mother is EFFING EXCITED today, in ways that a mid-40′s fairly conservative Nigerian woman should probably not be. She is so happy that someone, whose heritage is of the same continent as her, is in such a powerful position in (foreign) office. However, this is most likely because, she has somehow come believe that Obama and she are close-kin, but that is a sit down conversation for my mum and I to have later

Today is important, as the world is not quite the same place as when I went to sleep yesterday.

Today I awoke in a world where someone who looks like he could be a brother or uncle of mine, is the 44th President of the United States of America. My mother, little golden-brown brothers and I, shall never look at the world in quite the same way again.

This news is ground-breaking, historic and earth-shaking, all in the same breath. So much so, that for the next 24-hours, until this rockin’ news sinks in, I reserve the right to play fast-and-loose with the rules of English syntax and grammar, until the jubilation wares me out (or until I collapse from exclamation mark overuse)!!!!!!!

Hang on a sec.

I should probably try to add some facts into this post, eh? Um… OK. What’cha want? A breakdown of who won which states (thanks to MSNBC). That do ya? K. Here you go!

A BREAKDOWN OF ALL THE STATES THAT BARACKED THE VOTE AND MADE MY MAMA HAPPY (thanks to MSNBC)

YES WE DID! YES WE DID! YES WE DID! YES WE DID! YES WE DID! YES WE DID!

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Fame-wh*re celebrities, with both too high a sense of entitlement and sense of their part in this election, would like for you to hear their reactions to today’s WICKED AWESOME news that Barack Obama is the next President of the United States of America [Website – Amy Grindhouse].

Usher: “Isn’t this incredible news? Man, this is incredible. It’s so incredible to see that this historical thing has happened.”

Kanye West: “HI MOM, OBAMA WON!” (His mom passed away about a year ago.)

Lindsay Lohan: “YES WE CAN.”

Samantha Ronson: “YES WE DID!!”

Madonna: “I’m so f—ing happy right now”

Oprah: “There are not even words to talk about what this night means. It’s one of the greatest moments I could ever imagine. That’s how great it is.”

FANKS JJ.com

UPDATE – See more celeb reactions at Celebitchy.

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HOLY EFFING MOTHER OF GOD…

THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS BARACK OBAMA [Website – Amy Grindhouse].

YES WE CAN!

YES WE CAN!

YES WE CAN!

YES WE CAN!

Here’s the transcript of his speech:

If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.

It’s the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen, by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different, that their voices could be that difference.

It’s the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled. Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of individuals or a collection of red states and blue states.

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Not being an Amer-I-CAN, this whole voting/ election malarkey has gone a little over my head [Website – Amy Grindhouse].

If you too are as confused as f*ckery, you might wanna visit Gawker, to read ‘A Gawker Guide to the Most Awesomest Election Ever’…

You must click here!

You must click here!

You must click here!

You must click here!

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