TIME WOUNDS ALL HEELS

Here's what they said, before and after.

Before the presidential election, Sarah Palin on Barack Obama: "This is not a man who sees America as you see America, and as I see America. Our opponent, though, is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect -- imperfect enough that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country.

After the election: "Barack Obama has been elected president. Let us, let us -- let him -- be able to be able to kind of savor this moment, one, and not let the pettiness of maybe internal workings of the campaign erode any of the recognition of this historic moment that we're in. And God bless Obama and his beautiful family."

Before, Joseph Lieberman: "When others wanted to retreat in defeat from the field of battle, when Barack Obama was voting to cut off funding for our troops on the ground, John McCain had the courage to stand against the tide of public opinion,"

After, Lieberman spokesman Marshall Wittmann: "He believes that president-elect Obama -- and, then, Senator Obama -- is a genuine patriot and loves his country."

Before, Representative Michele Bachmann, speaking of Barack Obama: "I'm very concerned that he may have anti-American views."

After: she was "extremely grateful that we have an African-American who has won this year."

Before, Media Research Center president L. Brent Bozell III on Fox News' Fox & Friends: "When you go through the entirety of the campaign saying the kind of things that you're saying in the debates, where on, for every question, you've got a redistribution of wealth answer, where you've got socialism, where you've got the government controlling every aspect of life. You don't expect a reporter to ask you, 'Is this socialism?'"

After, on Fox News' America's Newsroom, to co-anchor Bill Hemmer: "The American people are fiscally conservative, and the fascinating thing, Bill, is that Barack Obama ran as a Reaganite and won over the fiscal -- the public as a fiscal conservative."