As it's the end of the year, and it seems as though we're all supposed to look back fondly on stuff or something like that, we thought it appropriate to make a nice little list of some of our favorite of each others' posts from 2008.

Considering that this post will be the 4,556th one we've published, you can probably imagine how difficult a task this was for us. But these are some of the ones that stuck out in our minds…

Gonzalo Cordova
MoveOn.org Needs to MoveOn.org Already

Dennis DiClaudio
Booing John McCain: A Short Play

Karen Lurie
John McCain's Guide to Training Women in the Workplace

Eric March
This Fall, John McCain Dies for Our Sins. Forever. Again.

Mary Phillips-Sandy
Gutsy Half-Hour Revolt Earns One Reporter Thirty Inane Seconds with Sarah Palin

G. Xavier Robillard
Expatriate Clinton Donor Expatriates Herself to John McCain

Dylan Ris
The Following 5 Democrats and 8 Republicans Called Sarah Palin a Pig and Hate Women in General

Ethan Ris
Scofflaw Homeless People Flagrantly Vote in Ohio

Matthew Tobey
Dennis Miller Is the Tigris and Euphrates of Outrage-Incitement

David Waters
Proven Winner Ralph Nader Gives Obama Golden Political Advice

And we'd be remiss if we didn't also take note of our very early April endorsement of Alan Keyes for president.

See you all in 2009.

As 2008 draws to a close, we thought it appropriate to run Gladstone's year-end round-up of the the eight most important Jews in American politics of the past year, that he'd originally written to celebrate American Jewishyishness and the eight nights of Hanukkah.

If you missed it the first eight times, here's your chance to catch up…

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Lynn Forester de Rothschild

Wealthy Clinton fundraiser Lynn Forester de Rothschild –- or Doll Face as I used to call her when we partied in the Hamptons back in the 90's — came to embody the Obama-hating Clinton supporter who just couldn't toe the party line after their gal was defeated.

After raising oodles of cash for Hillary in 2008, Rothschild threw her support behind McCain rather than back Obama. The ramifications were great –- although Barack Obama still won the election handily, he received one fewer popular vote than he would have had Rothschild voted for him.

Go back to the third night.

You'll recall that last week, Lynn Forester de Rothschild derailed Barack Obama's push for the "wealthy London baroness" vote by endorsing John McCain, despite being a "Hillraiser" in the primaries.

Well McCain might want to trade the baroness's endorsement to Obama for his Toby Keith one. It seems that Lady de Rothschild likes referring to her fellow anti-Obama voters as rednecks…

De Rothschild didn't stop making news with her endorsement. Later in the week, the famously wealthy London socialite went on to call those working-class Americans who Obama insulted during the primary "rednecks."

"Barack Obama went and called the people who have guns and cling to their religion bitter," de Rothschild told CNN's Campbell Brown. "The people out — who are the rednecks or whatever — are bitter."

A clip from Brown's show suggests that rather than "guns and religion," the Lady de Rothschild brand of "redneck" is more fond of clinging to pearls and old-fangled aristocratic titles. And that's great news for Obama.

In fact if the Baroness keeps popping up on TV, we can expect to a wave of "Rednecks For Obama" bumper stickers to make a sudden mass-emergence on pickups and stretch Bentleys across this nation.