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	<title>Comments on: Polls: Race Dead Even Now After Biden Pick Apparently Irks Clinton Supporters</title>
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		<title>By: Amanda</title>
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		<dc:creator>Amanda</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mjjga, you have completely missed the point of my response and you haven&#039;t answered my questions.  Is it important to you to vote for someone based on the issues he/she supports?  Because from what I&#039;ve read and heard, Obama and Clinton have very similar views on just about every issue.  So please, explain to me what it accomplishes if you vote for the man who is fundamentally opposed to almost everything Clinton supports.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;If you have a problem with progressivism, with the new direction of the Democratic Party, then perhaps it&#039;s time to find a new party or declare yourself an Independent, because that&#039;s the way things are going and if you were paying attention, you&#039;d understant that the majority of Democrats are OK with that.  We&#039;ve had eight years of Republican domination and &quot;centrist&quot; Democrats falling in line behind them and where has that gotten us?  Into a war we should never have started, into an economic crisis that could have been prevented, into a mind-boggling national debt, into an era when the Constitution is repeatedly tarnished.  If that&#039;s the kind of Democratic Party you want to be part of, then I say good riddance to you and everyone who shares that oppinion.  I for one am ready for a new generation of Democratic leaders who actually propose solutions for our problems, who understand the needs of the people, and who can lead us in a new direction, one that fits with the 21st century.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mjjga, you have completely missed the point of my response and you haven&#39;t answered my questions.  Is it important to you to vote for someone based on the issues he/she supports?  Because from what I&#39;ve read and heard, Obama and Clinton have very similar views on just about every issue.  So please, explain to me what it accomplishes if you vote for the man who is fundamentally opposed to almost everything Clinton supports.</p>
<p>If you have a problem with progressivism, with the new direction of the Democratic Party, then perhaps it&#39;s time to find a new party or declare yourself an Independent, because that&#39;s the way things are going and if you were paying attention, you&#39;d understant that the majority of Democrats are OK with that.  We&#39;ve had eight years of Republican domination and &#8220;centrist&#8221; Democrats falling in line behind them and where has that gotten us?  Into a war we should never have started, into an economic crisis that could have been prevented, into a mind-boggling national debt, into an era when the Constitution is repeatedly tarnished.  If that&#39;s the kind of Democratic Party you want to be part of, then I say good riddance to you and everyone who shares that oppinion.  I for one am ready for a new generation of Democratic leaders who actually propose solutions for our problems, who understand the needs of the people, and who can lead us in a new direction, one that fits with the 21st century.</p>
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		<title>By: janinedm</title>
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		<dc:creator>janinedm</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:09:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Success is not a crime, but it is a good explanation for why one might look at the current economy and say it&#039;s very good. My mayor, Bloomberg, is insanely rich, but he&#039;s smart enough to not say that the economy is great right now.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Success is not a crime, but it is a good explanation for why one might look at the current economy and say it&#39;s very good. My mayor, Bloomberg, is insanely rich, but he&#39;s smart enough to not say that the economy is great right now.</p>
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		<title>By: Jim_Satterfield</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jim_Satterfield</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In other words, mjjga is &lt;b&gt;not&lt;/b&gt; a Democrat at all. In case no one noticed her claims to being a Reagan Democrat, that means that she left the party over 20 years ago and never came back. That&#039;s what a Reagan Democrat is. I&#039;m not aware of any of them that still think of themselves that way that have come back to the Democratic Party in spite of Obama. They were busy voting for Bush and never voting for the Clintons. Or at least that&#039;s the case with the overwhelming majority of them. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The vast majority of those 18 million voters that the PUMA types keep referring to have already moved on and decided that Obama is in fact the better candidate when compared to McCain. They are not interested in voting for someone whose stands are the opposite of Hillary Clinton. They are not so foolish as to believe that this action somehow is a positive for Senator Clinton. They are the ones really supporting Hillary Clinton as they support the candidate she has decided to back.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In other words, mjjga is <b>not</b> a Democrat at all. In case no one noticed her claims to being a Reagan Democrat, that means that she left the party over 20 years ago and never came back. That&#39;s what a Reagan Democrat is. I&#39;m not aware of any of them that still think of themselves that way that have come back to the Democratic Party in spite of Obama. They were busy voting for Bush and never voting for the Clintons. Or at least that&#39;s the case with the overwhelming majority of them. </p>
<p>The vast majority of those 18 million voters that the PUMA types keep referring to have already moved on and decided that Obama is in fact the better candidate when compared to McCain. They are not interested in voting for someone whose stands are the opposite of Hillary Clinton. They are not so foolish as to believe that this action somehow is a positive for Senator Clinton. They are the ones really supporting Hillary Clinton as they support the candidate she has decided to back.</p>
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		<title>By: ryan</title>
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		<dc:creator>ryan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;&quot;If not this is going to be one huge Titanic to explain to the voters in November.&quot;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In every election he&#039;s ever run Obama has run from behind - his campaign strategy seems to be to spend a ton of time putting an organization together, and then to unleash that organization during the month before the election.  Look at his Senate bid, the Iowa primary... I suspect this October will be the same, which is why the campaign seems to have been lying low in the past months.  I could be wrong, and the Titanic you foresee could be steaming along full speed, but after his impressive showing in the primaries I find it tough to believe that they are truly floundering for the general.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>&#8220;If not this is going to be one huge Titanic to explain to the voters in November.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>In every election he&#39;s ever run Obama has run from behind &#8211; his campaign strategy seems to be to spend a ton of time putting an organization together, and then to unleash that organization during the month before the election.  Look at his Senate bid, the Iowa primary&#8230; I suspect this October will be the same, which is why the campaign seems to have been lying low in the past months.  I could be wrong, and the Titanic you foresee could be steaming along full speed, but after his impressive showing in the primaries I find it tough to believe that they are truly floundering for the general.</p>
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		<title>By: Neocon</title>
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		<dc:creator>Neocon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Right after Obama won the nomination the talking heads all appeared on cable news with a unified and same message.  &quot;WIN AT ALL COSTS.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Seriously for about 3 days it was non stop we must do whatever is necessary to win this election.  Since that time.  They have fumbled, stumbled, mumbled and downright looked sickly as Barak Obama and his inexperienced team and his own inexperience has shown thru mightily.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Perhaps Biden will right the sinking ship.  If not this is going to be one huge Titanic to explain to the voters in November.  I rather suspect this is why they chose Biden among other considerations.  His ability to organize and get things done.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Right after Obama won the nomination the talking heads all appeared on cable news with a unified and same message.  &#8220;WIN AT ALL COSTS.&#8221;</p>
<p>Seriously for about 3 days it was non stop we must do whatever is necessary to win this election.  Since that time.  They have fumbled, stumbled, mumbled and downright looked sickly as Barak Obama and his inexperienced team and his own inexperience has shown thru mightily.</p>
<p>Perhaps Biden will right the sinking ship.  If not this is going to be one huge Titanic to explain to the voters in November.  I rather suspect this is why they chose Biden among other considerations.  His ability to organize and get things done.</p>
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		<title>By: Ricorun</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ricorun</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;The DNC and the Obama campaign have created this issue. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I&#039;d say Hillary created this issue -- by not winning enough delegates. Her supporters were quite creative in their attempts to get around that unfortunate fact, though. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;Biden is just another Washington good ole boy. He has already said Obama is NOT prepared to be the President.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;So did Hillary. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;Clinton can deliver the Precidency to the Democrats but was snubbed in doing so. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I&#039;m not at all sure of that. It seems to me Clinton brings a lot of baggage with her. I suspect the Republican attack machine would have shredded her. I spend some time on right wing blogs, and they really, really don&#039;t like Hillary Clinton. Except now, of course. Now they&#039;re using her as a wedge. A useful tool. But if you&#039;re fine with that, well, it&#039;s your choice.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>The DNC and the Obama campaign have created this issue. </i></p>
<p>I&#39;d say Hillary created this issue &#8212; by not winning enough delegates. Her supporters were quite creative in their attempts to get around that unfortunate fact, though. </p>
<p><i>Biden is just another Washington good ole boy. He has already said Obama is NOT prepared to be the President.</i></p>
<p>So did Hillary. </p>
<p><i>Clinton can deliver the Precidency to the Democrats but was snubbed in doing so. </i></p>
<p>I&#39;m not at all sure of that. It seems to me Clinton brings a lot of baggage with her. I suspect the Republican attack machine would have shredded her. I spend some time on right wing blogs, and they really, really don&#39;t like Hillary Clinton. Except now, of course. Now they&#39;re using her as a wedge. A useful tool. But if you&#39;re fine with that, well, it&#39;s your choice.</p>
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		<title>By: mjjga</title>
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		<dc:creator>mjjga</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:24:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Amanda:  Party politics must STOP.  The DNC and the Obama campaign have created this issue.  I for one will not stand by why my party is taken down a path that is left and progressive.  The Clinton campaign has nothing to show but attracted 18 million voters.  The Party MUST understand that and bring Hillary into the Obama campaign.  Biden is just another Washington good ole boy.  He has already said Obama is NOT prepared to be the President.  He said that and is now his #2?  Clinton can deliver the Precidency to the Democrats but was snubbed in doing so.  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Although I don&#039;t agree with the McCain campaign I must show my dissatisfaction to the DNC so next time they will listen to us Reagan Democrats who really make or break any election.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;-------------- Original message --------------</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Amanda:  Party politics must STOP.  The DNC and the Obama campaign have created this issue.  I for one will not stand by why my party is taken down a path that is left and progressive.  The Clinton campaign has nothing to show but attracted 18 million voters.  The Party MUST understand that and bring Hillary into the Obama campaign.  Biden is just another Washington good ole boy.  He has already said Obama is NOT prepared to be the President.  He said that and is now his #2?  Clinton can deliver the Precidency to the Democrats but was snubbed in doing so.  </p>
<p>Although I don&#39;t agree with the McCain campaign I must show my dissatisfaction to the DNC so next time they will listen to us Reagan Democrats who really make or break any election.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; Original message &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;</p>
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		<title>By: DLS</title>
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		<dc:creator>DLS</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;This just doesn&#039;t sit well with the vast silent majority that watches and listens to blowhards preaching class warfare.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;That&#039;s because we not only know that this heavy progressivity is wrong and based on envy and cynical utilitarianism, but because we in the majority are included in the class being warred upon, normally.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;This just doesn&#39;t sit well with the vast silent majority that watches and listens to blowhards preaching class warfare.&#8221;</p>
<p>That&#39;s because we not only know that this heavy progressivity is wrong and based on envy and cynical utilitarianism, but because we in the majority are included in the class being warred upon, normally.</p>
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		<title>By: DLS</title>
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		<dc:creator>DLS</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:12:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;And is it a crime to be successful in the USA all of a sudden&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;For some this has always been so, and just wait until next year if Obama is elected.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;That is, until they realize where the aggregate income is, and they&#039;re forced more than once to re-define more generously (to the IRS) what &quot;successful&quot; (and fit to pay more in taxes; congratulations!) is.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Of course, they could be really wacky and levy a wealth tax, including one on IRAs...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;And is it a crime to be successful in the USA all of a sudden&#8221;</p>
<p>For some this has always been so, and just wait until next year if Obama is elected.</p>
<p>That is, until they realize where the aggregate income is, and they&#39;re forced more than once to re-define more generously (to the IRS) what &#8220;successful&#8221; (and fit to pay more in taxes; congratulations!) is.</p>
<p>Of course, they could be really wacky and levy a wealth tax, including one on IRAs&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: daveinboca</title>
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		<dc:creator>daveinboca</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think that if McCain picks Lieberman as VP, he will trump the Biden &quot;ace,&quot; although Biden is already starting his gaffes &quot;Barack America.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Biden shouldn&#039;t talk about McCain&#039;s seven kitchen tables, as each one probably cost as much as ten of his hair plugs---where did he get the  cash for that?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;And is it a crime to be successful in the USA all of a sudden, or is this just another chapter in the class war the covert-Marxist wing of the Dems habitually wages against Americans who are wealthy?    This just doesn&#039;t sit well with the vast silent majority that watches and listens to blowhards preaching class warfare.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The National Enquirer should look into Biden&#039;s hair plugs---and Joe B should shut his mouth on the populist crap &amp; acknowledge he voted for Iraq &amp; now he&#039;s suddenly right---thanks to McCain &amp; the surge.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think that if McCain picks Lieberman as VP, he will trump the Biden &#8220;ace,&#8221; although Biden is already starting his gaffes &#8220;Barack America.&#8221;</p>
<p>Biden shouldn&#39;t talk about McCain&#39;s seven kitchen tables, as each one probably cost as much as ten of his hair plugs&#8212;where did he get the  cash for that?</p>
<p>And is it a crime to be successful in the USA all of a sudden, or is this just another chapter in the class war the covert-Marxist wing of the Dems habitually wages against Americans who are wealthy?    This just doesn&#39;t sit well with the vast silent majority that watches and listens to blowhards preaching class warfare.</p>
<p>The National Enquirer should look into Biden&#39;s hair plugs&#8212;and Joe B should shut his mouth on the populist crap &#038; acknowledge he voted for Iraq &#038; now he&#39;s suddenly right&#8212;thanks to McCain &#038; the surge.</p>
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		<title>By: ryan</title>
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		<dc:creator>ryan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;&quot;I can&#039;t believe what is happening. I for one will solicit all Hillary voters to do as I will do, and that is vote for McCain. We Hillary supporters, and firm Democrats, need to have a voice and if our Headshed will not listen to us they will after this election.&quot;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;If you vote Republican I fail to see how it makes it more likely that the Democratic party will listen to you - that logic is akin to saying &quot;I will root for the Red Sox this year so that the Yankees learn what a true fan I am&quot;.  If you truly want to change the Democratic party then push for changes that you think are needed, otherwise it isn&#039;t &quot;your party&quot; that is the problem.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>&#8220;I can&#39;t believe what is happening. I for one will solicit all Hillary voters to do as I will do, and that is vote for McCain. We Hillary supporters, and firm Democrats, need to have a voice and if our Headshed will not listen to us they will after this election.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>If you vote Republican I fail to see how it makes it more likely that the Democratic party will listen to you &#8211; that logic is akin to saying &#8220;I will root for the Red Sox this year so that the Yankees learn what a true fan I am&#8221;.  If you truly want to change the Democratic party then push for changes that you think are needed, otherwise it isn&#39;t &#8220;your party&#8221; that is the problem.</p>
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		<title>By: Amanda</title>
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		<dc:creator>Amanda</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:34:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well, let me ask you two things mjjga.  As a firm Hillary Clinton supporter, do you think that it is more important to vote with her on the issues?  For example, Clinton is a vocal supporter of women&#039;s rights, especially the right to choose.  Assuming you agree with her on this policy position, is it important to you that pro-choice candidates are elected into office?  And if so, doesn&#039;t it make more sense to vote for a candidate who agrees with Clinton on that issue?  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Second, in what way has Hillary Clinton been snubbed that her supporters feel that they should take it so personally?  She lost the primary, fair and square.  So did several other Democrats.  Yet the other candidates&#039; supporters (myself included) have for the most part graciously offered to support the primary winner.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I guess what I&#039;m driving at here is that I don&#039;t understand how voting for McCain, a candidate who is opposed to just about everything Clinton supports, accomplishes anything for you.  It doesn&#039;t get Clinton magically elected.  It doesn&#039;t erase her loss in the primary.  And it sure doesn&#039;t help her achieve any success in the Senate or in future Presidential races.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, let me ask you two things mjjga.  As a firm Hillary Clinton supporter, do you think that it is more important to vote with her on the issues?  For example, Clinton is a vocal supporter of women&#39;s rights, especially the right to choose.  Assuming you agree with her on this policy position, is it important to you that pro-choice candidates are elected into office?  And if so, doesn&#39;t it make more sense to vote for a candidate who agrees with Clinton on that issue?  </p>
<p>Second, in what way has Hillary Clinton been snubbed that her supporters feel that they should take it so personally?  She lost the primary, fair and square.  So did several other Democrats.  Yet the other candidates&#39; supporters (myself included) have for the most part graciously offered to support the primary winner.</p>
<p>I guess what I&#39;m driving at here is that I don&#39;t understand how voting for McCain, a candidate who is opposed to just about everything Clinton supports, accomplishes anything for you.  It doesn&#39;t get Clinton magically elected.  It doesn&#39;t erase her loss in the primary.  And it sure doesn&#39;t help her achieve any success in the Senate or in future Presidential races.</p>
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		<title>By: 1VirginiaHarris1</title>
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		<dc:creator>1VirginiaHarris1</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m thrilled that Senator Clinton is addressing the Dem Convention on the anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It is a great way to honor her candidacy, AND the extraordinary courage of the suffragettes. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It will inspire her supporters to stand by her -- by supporting the candidate she endorses.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;There are sharp elbows in every good campaign, but in the end everyone has to pull together to get anywhere.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Thanks to the success of the suffragettes, who really pulled together, women now have voices and choices!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;But most people are totally in the dark about HOW the suffragettes won, and what life was REALLY like for women before they did.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Now readers can discover the shocking truth, and it&#039;s as easy as opening their e-mail.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;The Privilege of Voting&quot; is a new free e-mail series that follows eight great women from 1912 - 1920 to reveal ALL that happened to set the stage for women to win the vote.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is no boring history report.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Two beautiful and extremely powerful suffragettes -- Alice Paul and Emmeline Pankhurst are featured, along with Edith Wharton, Isadora Duncan, Alice Roosevelt and two gorgeous presidential mistresses.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;There are tons of heartache for these heroines on the rocky road to the ballot box, but in the end, they WIN!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Exciting sequential series of 10-minute e-mails, perfect for coffeebreaks or anytime.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;We&#039;re delivering women&#039;s history - and making it free, fast and FUN!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Subscribe free at&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.CoffeebreakReaders.com/subscribe.html&quot;&gt;www.CoffeebreakReaders.com/subscribe.html&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#39;m thrilled that Senator Clinton is addressing the Dem Convention on the anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment.</p>
<p>It is a great way to honor her candidacy, AND the extraordinary courage of the suffragettes. </p>
<p>It will inspire her supporters to stand by her &#8212; by supporting the candidate she endorses.</p>
<p>There are sharp elbows in every good campaign, but in the end everyone has to pull together to get anywhere.</p>
<p>Thanks to the success of the suffragettes, who really pulled together, women now have voices and choices!</p>
<p>But most people are totally in the dark about HOW the suffragettes won, and what life was REALLY like for women before they did.</p>
<p>Now readers can discover the shocking truth, and it&#39;s as easy as opening their e-mail.</p>
<p>&#8220;The Privilege of Voting&#8221; is a new free e-mail series that follows eight great women from 1912 &#8211; 1920 to reveal ALL that happened to set the stage for women to win the vote.</p>
<p>This is no boring history report.</p>
<p>Two beautiful and extremely powerful suffragettes &#8212; Alice Paul and Emmeline Pankhurst are featured, along with Edith Wharton, Isadora Duncan, Alice Roosevelt and two gorgeous presidential mistresses.</p>
<p>There are tons of heartache for these heroines on the rocky road to the ballot box, but in the end, they WIN!</p>
<p>Exciting sequential series of 10-minute e-mails, perfect for coffeebreaks or anytime.</p>
<p>We&#39;re delivering women&#39;s history &#8211; and making it free, fast and FUN!</p>
<p>Subscribe free at</p>
<p><a href="http://www.CoffeebreakReaders.com/subscribe.html">http://www.CoffeebreakReaders.com/subscribe.html</a></p>
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		<title>By: janinedm</title>
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		<dc:creator>janinedm</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Maybe I&#039;m naive here, but it is past time to stop specifically catering to Hillary&#039;s supporters. As you can see above, there is not a single gesture or statement (short of building a time machine to pre-fire Penn) that will make the primaries okay. So it&#039;s time to get back to basics, talking about what Democrats believe in and the fact that we&#039;ve never been so united on the party&#039;s platform. Some people will be convinced, some will never be convinced, but an appeal to Democratic ideals should have more effect than direct appeals to character.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Maybe I&#39;m naive here, but it is past time to stop specifically catering to Hillary&#39;s supporters. As you can see above, there is not a single gesture or statement (short of building a time machine to pre-fire Penn) that will make the primaries okay. So it&#39;s time to get back to basics, talking about what Democrats believe in and the fact that we&#39;ve never been so united on the party&#39;s platform. Some people will be convinced, some will never be convinced, but an appeal to Democratic ideals should have more effect than direct appeals to character.</p>
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		<title>By: AustinRoth</title>
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		<dc:creator>AustinRoth</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>How unlike the Democratic Party to rip itself apart from the inside, and possibly blow another silver-platter opportunity for the White House. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It hasn&#039;t happened yet, but at this point you really would expect Obama to be in a better position.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How unlike the Democratic Party to rip itself apart from the inside, and possibly blow another silver-platter opportunity for the White House. </p>
<p>It hasn&#39;t happened yet, but at this point you really would expect Obama to be in a better position.</p>
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		<title>By: DLS</title>
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		<dc:creator>DLS</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:38:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Or as the Economist said years ago, Rudi, &quot;foolish love&quot; [for Billary, mainly for Bill].&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Just realize that Obama&#039;s cult is orders of magnitude more powerful.  It showed as of Super Tuesday.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Insofar as the Clinton voters are concerned -- they are potentially more poweful than Nader voters were in 2000, and are this year, by far.  &quot;Proceed at your [and your party&#039;s] own risk.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Or as the Economist said years ago, Rudi, &#8220;foolish love&#8221; [for Billary, mainly for Bill].</p>
<p>Just realize that Obama&#39;s cult is orders of magnitude more powerful.  It showed as of Super Tuesday.</p>
<p>Insofar as the Clinton voters are concerned &#8212; they are potentially more poweful than Nader voters were in 2000, and are this year, by far.  &#8220;Proceed at your [and your party&#39;s] own risk.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: ChrisWWW</title>
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		<dc:creator>ChrisWWW</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>neocon,&lt;br&gt;I know you&#039;re oh so insulted by what I said. You would never use sarcasm yourself.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>neocon,<br />I know you&#39;re oh so insulted by what I said. You would never use sarcasm yourself.</p>
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		<title>By: Rudi</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rudi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>JS, during the Democratic primary Billary said herself and McCain were ready to lead, Obama not so much. Now McCain is running ads directly at Hillary voters. As JazzShaw says in another post, Billary and Obama share the same philosophies, while McCain is an opposite to the two. The Billary crowd is a &quot;cult of personality&quot;...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>JS, during the Democratic primary Billary said herself and McCain were ready to lead, Obama not so much. Now McCain is running ads directly at Hillary voters. As JazzShaw says in another post, Billary and Obama share the same philosophies, while McCain is an opposite to the two. The Billary crowd is a &#8220;cult of personality&#8221;&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Neocon</title>
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		<dc:creator>Neocon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think the democrats are doing a great job at imploding.  Everyone whose angry at the Democratic party is unpatriotic and worthless scum for daring to vote for McCain.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Every Republican who is angry with the last 8 years and daring to vote for Obama is a true patriot and a wonderfully enlightened citizen who gets it.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Again the democrats just dont understand the true impact of their intransigence.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think the democrats are doing a great job at imploding.  Everyone whose angry at the Democratic party is unpatriotic and worthless scum for daring to vote for McCain.</p>
<p>Every Republican who is angry with the last 8 years and daring to vote for Obama is a true patriot and a wonderfully enlightened citizen who gets it.</p>
<p>Again the democrats just dont understand the true impact of their intransigence.</p>
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		<title>By: ChrisWWW</title>
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		<dc:creator>ChrisWWW</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>mjjga,&lt;br&gt;You are indeed a great patriot. Voting out of spite...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>mjjga,<br />You are indeed a great patriot. Voting out of spite&#8230;</p>
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