<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-Mail-URLShareSharedContentClass" style="position: relative !important; "><div id="article" class="auto-hyphenated" style="-webkit-hyphens: auto; "><div class="page" style="font-size: 20px; font-family: Palatino, Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.4; text-align: justify; "><h1 class="title" style="font-size: 1.33em; line-height: 1.25em; text-align: center; -webkit-hyphens: manual; "><span style="font-size: 23px; ">OBAMA DECLARES NATIONAL DAY OF GLOATING</span></h1><p style="font-size: 14px; "><img alt="fireworks-white-house-580.jpg" width="580" height="378" class="reader-image-large" style="float: none; margin: auto auto 0.75em; max-width: 100%; display: block; " id="386b7291-f8bf-4269-a46f-a354d455fdc2" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:1F9EF82C-4BF1-4E64-9DA3-6D058331D50B@att.net"></p><p style="font-size: 16px; "><b>WASHINGTON</b>—Residents of the District of Columbia were roused from their sleep by a massive fireworks display over the White House just after midnight, as President Obama declared what he called “a national day of gloating.”</p><p style="font-size: 16px; ">“It would not be productive for this nation, going forward, to crow about our victory over political adversaries,” he said in a nationally televised address. “So let’s get it all out of our systems today.”</p><div style="font-size: 16px; "><span style="line-height: 1.4; ">Immediately after the President’s speech, loudspeakers outside the White House blasted “We Are the Champions,” and the national day of gloating began.</span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><p style="font-size: 16px; ">In addition to a ticker-tape parade, the day’s events will include a screening on the Mall of a clip reel of Texas Senator Ted Cruz’s marathon Senate speech, punctuated by sad trombone sounds.</p><p style="font-size: 16px; ">“Starting tomorrow, my message to the Republicans is, ‘Let’s work together for the American people,’ ” said Obama, wearing what appeared to be a beer hat. “But today my message is, ‘We won, bitchaz.’ ”</p><p><br></p></div></div></div></span><span class="Apple-Mail-URLShareUserContentBottomClass" style="line-height: 14px !important; text-align: left !important; "></span></body></html>