How the mighty have fallen, Barack and Michelle Obama edition

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“Sometimes it’s not the fall that kills you. It’s the sudden stop at the bottom.”

It seems like only yesterday when the results came in from Pennsylvania in 2008. The Keystone State was Republican nominee John McCain‘s last stand in a race that almost no one thought he could win against a surging Barack Obama, backed by a slobbering American press in a way we’d never seen. 

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