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With 2008 dead and gone, it's important to remember it fondly. Just a few short days ago we took a long hard look at the political moments in which Minnesota failed to cover itself in glory. Now it's time to salute the year that was with more than one finger and recognize that it wasn't all a slow slide into the depths of the Abyss.

So, putting rancor and bile aside for one brief shiny moment - we give you the top five moments in 2008 Minnesota politics.

Eventful barely begins to describe the year that was 2008. There was, of course, the ongoing fiction that Minnesota was ever a battleground state during the presidential election, and the RNC taking place in Minneapolis, er...Saint Paul. But even stripping away the millions of dollars and the monstrous steaming piles of carefully worded bullscheiss funneled into the state and strewn across the landscape like so many cow pies by the national politicos leaves us with a startling patchwork of transcendence and frustration on the local political scene.