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This week's list of awesome gifs is perfect for those of you stuck inside dealing with the hurricane aftermath. We've got gifs of sassy Obama and an even sassier dog — plus, a funny take on Gangnam Style! And you thought storm coverage couldn't be fun...

As you've no doubt heard, Barack Obama was elected to a second presidential term last night. We have a feeling he's feeling like this right now:

Somebody decided to post this picture of the president on Reddit, titling it 'My new favorite picture of President Obama.' People went crazy over it pretty much immediately, because Obama's exhausted attempt at smiling is pretty goofy looking. So many great memes came out of this it was hard to pick our favorites, but we tried our best. And the GIFs. Good grief, the GIFs.

This week's list of GIFs is particularly awesome. We have more than a few funny animal GIFs but don't act too surprised. Sometimes we at TheFW just can't help spreading our love for cats doing adorably funny things, such as our first GIF of a cat finally figuring out who was really behind her toy.

This could be the best thing that's happened to us today. We found a new Subreddit (courtesy of Daily Dot) dedicated solely to the moments in infomercials when people can't do simple things everybody else can do.

We couldn't have made a list of awesome GIFs from this week without including the cooler-than-you daredevil Felix Baumgartner. His amazing free-fall jump blew our minds, as did the GIFs commemorating it.

We still haven't recovered from Felix Baumgartner's amazing leap to Earth from the stratosphere. Fortunately, the internet is right there with us. Here are the best memes and GIFS we could find on the subject of Baumgartner's 128,000-foot free-fall. Ugh, just saying it makes us feel a little queasy, and watching a Felix Baumgartner jump GIF is almost too much. Maybe you'll fare better.

The 2012 presidential race once again set the internet on fire. There were gifs, fake twitter accounts, an AMAZING hairswap and all the other stuff that comes from people who live their lives online briefly taking an interest in politics. It helps that Joe Biden is a very expressive man. Here are some of our favorite bits from around the web.

Mitt Romney was on the campaign trail at a Chipotle in Denver, Colorado when this photo was taken. The man in the picture swears this is just his excited face. Unfortunately, his expression, coupled with his striking similarity to a young Will Smith, made this photo a guaranteed internet sensation. It made it's way into Reddit's Photoshop Battles, and these are just a few of the hilarious results.

Rebel Wilson first made us belly laugh, get super grossed out, then laugh even harder when she played Kristen Wiig's "TMI" roommate in ‘Bridesmaids.' You know, the one who got a street-side tattoo of a Mexican drinking worm across her back? That was nasty. And hilarious. Luckily for us, Wilson's hysterical antics are back in the upcoming musical comedy, ‘Pitch Perfect.'

We start off this week's assortment of GIFs with an adorable cartoon of what happens when Dad has to watch the kids while Mom is gone. Does this animation remind you of your family at all?

We're suckers for sour faces. Warheads, lemons-- you name it! Although we're fans of any kind of pungent-induced expression, there's something about the way kids react to super sour foods that's just so cute, charming and hysterical.