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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.

The death of Senator Jesse Helms.

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Save for the lack of scheduled appearances by Valerie Bertinelli, Tiffani Thiessen or Jennie Garth, over the course of the next two

Hordes of Jihadists, radical liberals and ancient clown-shaped abominations with fantasies of disrupting the Republican National Convention by rising from beneath the streets of Saint Paul like so many crap-coated Lovecraftian elder-beings wept bitterly as public works employees welded downtown manhole covers shut during the last week.