FireDogLake has set up a convenient form to express your outrage by email to local newspapers that carry the slanderous material by Nedra Pickler.

Let's be clear about this, once they take away your patriotism, there's not much left. The article by Nedra Pickler was a hit piece not only on Barack Obama but on all progressives determined not to see a repeat against the next incumbent of the White House -- whoever that might be -- of what the media did to Bill Clinton for 8 long years.

See the trick is, find some lunatic who'll do the dirty work for you. AP's Nedra Pickler does dumpster-diving for the following:

Obama's comments led conservatives and media commentators to question his patriotism.

Apparently John McCain is running on a platform of bitter medicine:

"Hope, my friends, is a powerful thing....

"To encourage a country with only rhetoric rather than sound and proven ideas that trust in the strength and courage of free people is not a promise of hope. It is a platitude."

The L.A. Times has a nice Map of California with election results.

It's broken down by County and shows about 2% of results so far.

UPDATE: Here's a Map with Results from CNN.

Good news: Seals wins; Bad News: Pera loses.

UPDATE II: Final thought before I poop out: At least for the presidentials on the Democratic side, it doesn't seem like a 'Tsunami' after all.

More on the Leftwingextremistpunkishness that's plaguing our nation at Archpundit.com...

Meanwhile:

Citizen Action IL had its annual dinner last night at the Hilton in Chicago. In the top picture, Co-Chair William McNary is welcoming the guests -- which included IL Attorney Gen. Lisa Madigan, Chicago Federation of Labor Pres. Dennis Gannon and Congressman Luis Gutierrez (IL-04).

In the second picture is Leo with dynamic duo, Karen & Daniel Biss, hot off the canvassing tour in Daniel's inspiring bid for State Rep. (More on Daniel here...)

1. Evanston at 5am: Still very dark outside, we all gathered at the District office on Davis St. in Evanston at 5 in the morning. The three buses waiting to take us to Springfield were already outside.

Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, State Sen. Jeff Schoenberg and State Rep. Julie Hamos unfurling a 40' long banner with the caption, "Evanston Ba-Rocks for Obama!" at the Governor's Mansion in Springfield. This followed the announcement by Sen. Barack Obama on Sat. Feb. 10, 2007 that he was seeking the Democratic Nomination for President.

More photos from the event to follow.