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Notes one Black female writer in Salon.com, on January 20th, Michelle Obama will not only become America’s premiere Black First Lady, but she’ll also be the first to shake what our Mama (Africa) gave her: An authentic, 3-dimensional, fully-realized butt.

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This is a mile late, but I didn’t think about it until after the election, and I have to ask: Why didn’t the Obama campaign use the Pointer Sisters’, above, 1973 hit “Yes We Can Can” as their unofficial campaign theme song, as opposed to Stevie Wonder’s 1970 classic “Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I’m Yours”?

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Dag! Some people don’t wanna give the brotha a break! This eye-catching baseball jersey, urging the removal from office of a man who has never held it, comes in classic Run-DMC logo style with red sleeves, above, as well as black or blue ones…because that’s how anybody who messes with Obama is gonna end up—red…then black and blue!

Made of 100% cotton. S-XL, $19.99; XXL, $22.99, from CafeExpress. Order now. Wear yours with pride on January 20.

GRACE: Ooh! Speakin’ of butts, had another sex dream last night. This time I was in the shower with Barack Obama. Oh-bama, he was ba-rocking my world.

—Will & Grace, “Queens For A Day,” 11/25/2004

I think it speaks to the general quality of Racialicious that what, for them, is a mere side illustration is, for me, my whole act: The Head O State Sex Toy.

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How did I miss MC Yogi‘s svelte and limber “Obama ’08: Vote for Hope,” above? (Yet, somehow, I couldn’t escape Will.I.Am’s pretentious and flaccid “Yes We Can.”)

Hearing “Vote for Hope,” I realized we have firmly entered the era of Barack Obama hip-hop samples. His voice has become an weighty signifier, instantly recognizable, a profound way, when mixed with beats, to give the record a bigger meaning than the content of his actual words. Enjoy this timeless, get-out-the-vote gem.

In case you missed one of the over 700 newspaper front pages, in 66 countries, commemorating the Obama victory—for example, Tel Aviv, Israel’s Maariv, above—now you can go to the Newseum’s web site and collect the whole set.

Take a look at some of the best American ones, below, after the jump. It’s interesting: When you check out a whole bunch, and see the designs, you can kind of detect which papers were inspired (e.g., the Hartford Courant, of all places), and which were just phoning it in. Also, actually, I think Will Smith was right, on Oprah, today: The Chicago Sun-Times did a cool cover, but, man, the Philly Daily News kinda came wit’ it.

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With all the talk about Sarah Palin possibly running for president in 2012, could it come to this: A showdown with her former, now 77-years-old-but-still-fit mentor, John McCain?

Kind of reminds me of something Darth Vader once said: “I’ve been waiting for you, Obi-Wan. We meet again at last. The circle is now complete. When I left you, I was but the learner. Now I am the Master.” Word is, Vader looked awesome in a burgundy, crocodile-print stiletto, too.

[via Panopticist]

What’s interesting about McCain’s concession speech, this week, was, in that brief presentation, he showed all of the statesmanness that was absent during his campaign. He was gracious, no-nonsense, and direct.

So is the cyborgian monster as which he’s caricatured, above, on this t-shirt. Well, maybe this guy’s not so gracious. S-XXL, $16, in red, white, or blue, from Hoodman.tv.

With McCain-Palin now lying at the bottom of the ocean, and the ship’s rats swimming away from the wreck, the truth is now coming out about what a fistful Sarah Palin was to deal with.

According to The Huffington Post,

Now that the 2008 election is over, reporters are spilling all the juciest, and previously off the record, gossip from the campaign trail. Much of it is about the infighting between Palin and McCain’s staff, as Newsweek‘s treasure trove of post-election gossip reveals.

However, perhaps one of the most astounding and previously unknown tidbits about Sarah Palin has to do with her already dubious grasp of geography. According to Fox News Chief Political Correspondent Carl Cameron, there was great concern within the McCain campaign that Palin lacked “a degree of knowledgeability necessary to be a running mate, a vice president, a heartbeat away from the presidency,” in part because she didn’t know which countries were in NAFTA, and she “didn’t understand that Africa was a continent, rather than a series, a country just in itself.”

It gets worse, and I’m not even going to spoil it for you. Watch the clip, and hear about her tantrums and infighting, then read about her other clothing sprees, the boner-rific way she once greeted McCain staff, and why she was silent during McCain’s concession speech. 2012 awaits, bay-bee!