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	<title>Comments on: The Demonization Of Obama Escalates While GOP Congressional Leaders Drag Their Heels</title>
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		<title>By: House Majority Whip Tom Delay</title>
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		<dc:creator>House Majority Whip Tom Delay</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 09:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;House Majority Whip Tom Delay...&lt;/strong&gt;

And so the demonization escalates as you can see here.Note to Republicans who choose to go this rout [...]...</description>
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<p>And so the demonization escalates as you can see here.Note to Republicans who choose to go this rout [...]&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: StockBoySF</title>
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		<dc:creator>StockBoySF</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Kateliz, you&#039;ve been reading too many misconceived opinions on the net.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kateliz, you&#39;ve been reading too many misconceived opinions on the net.</p>
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		<title>By: Jim_Satterfield</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jim_Satterfield</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sorry, Kateliz, but your entire screed just proves the hatred of the Right, not the Left. Let&#039;s see....first you made up a list of supposed actions taken by all Democrats since Bush was president. What lies did Democrats tell about Bush? Back up the claims, please. Then you make a claim about relative IQs of Bush and Obama. The problem with that? No one really knows, assuming that you are referring to results from a standard IQ test. Neither one of them have ever taken one or at least have never made the results from one public. All claims about the IQ of either person are pure guesswork. Intelligence doesn&#039;t really mean much, taken on its own. Bush made it through undergraduate studies at Yale and an MBA, though with a completely undistinguished academic record in either case. Obama graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard Law School. These are the things we know without speculating.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A very, very small number of our troops have in fact been convicted of killing Iraqi civilians. there has been one incident of these murders being committed to further the rape of a young girl. No one that I know of ever accused &quot;our troops&quot; of being any such monsters but this incident and a few others did take place.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry, Kateliz, but your entire screed just proves the hatred of the Right, not the Left. Let&#39;s see&#8230;.first you made up a list of supposed actions taken by all Democrats since Bush was president. What lies did Democrats tell about Bush? Back up the claims, please. Then you make a claim about relative IQs of Bush and Obama. The problem with that? No one really knows, assuming that you are referring to results from a standard IQ test. Neither one of them have ever taken one or at least have never made the results from one public. All claims about the IQ of either person are pure guesswork. Intelligence doesn&#39;t really mean much, taken on its own. Bush made it through undergraduate studies at Yale and an MBA, though with a completely undistinguished academic record in either case. Obama graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard Law School. These are the things we know without speculating.</p>
<p>A very, very small number of our troops have in fact been convicted of killing Iraqi civilians. there has been one incident of these murders being committed to further the rape of a young girl. No one that I know of ever accused &#8220;our troops&#8221; of being any such monsters but this incident and a few others did take place.</p>
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		<title>By: Kateliz</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kateliz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 08:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sorry all you whining Dems.  Think back the last eight years.  You set the tone.  You called President Bush every disgusting name in the book.  You used repugnant images, lies, mis information and more lies, hate, gross &quot;humor&quot;.  You demonized him and all conservatives.  Yoiu hurled insults and revolting accusations at us all.  You stupidly and disgustingly insulted us abroad.  You made the US look like a bunch of hate mongers...which you are. You called him stupid (even though his iQ is higher than Obama,s  yeah...thats right.)  You called our troops rapists, killers, and liars.  You did everything short of crapping on the office of the President. Oh wait Clinton did that.  If you did not do it yourselves, you never once objected either.&lt;br&gt;SOOO SORRY Whining Democrats are just going to have to get used to it.  Obama is NOT the messiah.  He is just a community organizer who is in way over his head. All the &quot;rhetorical flourishes&quot; and low information speeches  in the world are not going to do him much good now.  Even if &quot;I won&quot; makes him think he really has.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry all you whining Dems.  Think back the last eight years.  You set the tone.  You called President Bush every disgusting name in the book.  You used repugnant images, lies, mis information and more lies, hate, gross &#8220;humor&#8221;.  You demonized him and all conservatives.  Yoiu hurled insults and revolting accusations at us all.  You stupidly and disgustingly insulted us abroad.  You made the US look like a bunch of hate mongers&#8230;which you are. You called him stupid (even though his iQ is higher than Obama,s  yeah&#8230;thats right.)  You called our troops rapists, killers, and liars.  You did everything short of crapping on the office of the President. Oh wait Clinton did that.  If you did not do it yourselves, you never once objected either.<br />SOOO SORRY Whining Democrats are just going to have to get used to it.  Obama is NOT the messiah.  He is just a community organizer who is in way over his head. All the &#8220;rhetorical flourishes&#8221; and low information speeches  in the world are not going to do him much good now.  Even if &#8220;I won&#8221; makes him think he really has.</p>
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		<title>By: D. E.Rodriguez</title>
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		<dc:creator>D. E.Rodriguez</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 04:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wow!  I wish this voter had spoken out as forcefully and righteously to the previous president who got us in this mess in the first place.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow!  I wish this voter had spoken out as forcefully and righteously to the previous president who got us in this mess in the first place.</p>
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		<title>By: StClair</title>
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		<dc:creator>StClair</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dear Mr. President&lt;br&gt;You only won the office of President. Read what the constitution says. You do not make the laws you execute the laws of the land.  You are Commander and Chief, keep us safe. Your predecessor did. You can issue executive orders but if I don’t like them I tell you and I will ask my representative to take action for or against it. The legislators write the bills such as the stimulus package approve it full of pork and lose my support.  My representative in the House of Representatives gets my vote not yours remember that. You only won the right to be President not write the legislation or dictate it. You have a veto use it or not. Understand? You can try and intimidate my representative but I vote for him not you and I will remind him of that. You have not been honest to date and that had better change. You have not been bipartisan so don’t say you have. You have not been open and transparent so don’t say you have. You may think you are on honeymoon but not with me. I wish you success but I will be holding you responsible starting now. &lt;br&gt;Respectfully, &lt;br&gt;A voter who will listen to anyone he pleases</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Mr. President<br />You only won the office of President. Read what the constitution says. You do not make the laws you execute the laws of the land.  You are Commander and Chief, keep us safe. Your predecessor did. You can issue executive orders but if I don’t like them I tell you and I will ask my representative to take action for or against it. The legislators write the bills such as the stimulus package approve it full of pork and lose my support.  My representative in the House of Representatives gets my vote not yours remember that. You only won the right to be President not write the legislation or dictate it. You have a veto use it or not. Understand? You can try and intimidate my representative but I vote for him not you and I will remind him of that. You have not been honest to date and that had better change. You have not been bipartisan so don’t say you have. You have not been open and transparent so don’t say you have. You may think you are on honeymoon but not with me. I wish you success but I will be holding you responsible starting now. <br />Respectfully, <br />A voter who will listen to anyone he pleases</p>
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		<title>By: D. E.Rodriguez</title>
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		<dc:creator>D. E.Rodriguez</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>CStanley:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;Some who were past offenders are now offering to change (this means you, D.E.), which frankly seems a bit too convenient but at least it&#039;s better to say you&#039;ve had an epiphany and admit you&#039;re changing your tone than to pretend that you never condoned that tone before last Tuesday.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Yes, I have been a vocal critic of  the total failure that was the Bush adminsitration for at least the past five or six years, and I don&#039;t deny it, nor regret it.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;But I do remember giving Bush the benefit and the courtesy of  supporting him for at least the few initial  months and especially after 9/11.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;We are now in the finacial equivalent of 9/11.  I guess it is too much to ask to give this new President an equal chance during this crsis.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;How long has Obama been our President now?  Five, six days?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>CStanley:</p>
<p>&#8220;Some who were past offenders are now offering to change (this means you, D.E.), which frankly seems a bit too convenient but at least it&#39;s better to say you&#39;ve had an epiphany and admit you&#39;re changing your tone than to pretend that you never condoned that tone before last Tuesday.&#8221;</p>
<p>Yes, I have been a vocal critic of  the total failure that was the Bush adminsitration for at least the past five or six years, and I don&#39;t deny it, nor regret it.</p>
<p>But I do remember giving Bush the benefit and the courtesy of  supporting him for at least the few initial  months and especially after 9/11.</p>
<p>We are now in the finacial equivalent of 9/11.  I guess it is too much to ask to give this new President an equal chance during this crsis.</p>
<p>How long has Obama been our President now?  Five, six days?</p>
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		<title>By: He Won &#171; Conservative Thoughts and Profundity</title>
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		<dc:creator>He Won &#171; Conservative Thoughts and Profundity</dc:creator>
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		<description>[...] is pretty good. Gandelman at the Moderate Voice issues a stern warning to Repub bloggers about the dangers of demonizing a president. Note to [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Jim_Satterfield</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jim_Satterfield</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 01:51:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>CS, if the kinds of attitudes displayed by the Hot Air commenters were so non-representative of the GOP then Ann Coulter wouldn&#039;t be a best selling writer. Neither would Malkin, Michael Reagan or Michael Savage.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>CS, if the kinds of attitudes displayed by the Hot Air commenters were so non-representative of the GOP then Ann Coulter wouldn&#39;t be a best selling writer. Neither would Malkin, Michael Reagan or Michael Savage.</p>
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		<title>By: MarkInIrvine</title>
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		<dc:creator>MarkInIrvine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>get over it dude ... besides, Bush and his admin richly deserved the criticism</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>get over it dude &#8230; besides, Bush and his admin richly deserved the criticism</p>
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		<title>By: A New (Old) Definition of Bipartisanship &#171; Liberty Street</title>
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		<dc:creator>A New (Old) Definition of Bipartisanship &#171; Liberty Street</dc:creator>
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		<description>[...] also because, in case you hadn&#8217;t noticed, Barack Obama&#8217;s decisive victory means he really does have a mandate. Although he is being [...]</description>
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		<title>By: rakehell</title>
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		<dc:creator>rakehell</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Let them prattle on.  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Their discourse on &quot;the most dangerous man to ever occupy the oval office&quot; only serves to make the Republican party look foolish.   President Obama has been in office all of 4 days - and half a day was taken up with a parade and balls.  The American people aren&#039;t as stupid as Thiessen and others might imagine.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;As I recall Bush had the support of about 99% of the American people after 9/11.  He had it when invaded Afghanistan.   There were questions about going to war with Iraq, given that Saddam wasn&#039;t a credible threat to the U.S. and had no nuclear facilities - the latter having been destroyed by Israel in 1981.  Even so, Bush still had the support of probably 80% in his decision to invade Iraq.  Most criticism was civil in tone.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Once it became clear that not only were there no WMDs, as Blix had correctly reported, and further that CIA information supporting the no-WMD scenario had been ignored and hidden, and that the post-war was being very poorly handled did the criticism of administration become louder.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Katrina was the nail in coffin for many.  The vast incompetence of his administration was clearly on display for all to see.  The economic collapse was the final proof of the total inability of his administration to address any crisis whatsoever for any remaining doubters.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Let&#039;s allow the Obama administration do the talking with their actions.  The new president would seem to be very result oriented.  If an idea fails, it will be discarded.  If an individual is not up to the job, he/she will be replaced.  The Republicans may not approve of the President&#039;s solutions, but they will not be able to claim he or his administration is incompetent.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The dustbin of history awaits all these fools.  And they will soon be gone; their moment of sound and fury, signifying nothing, has passed.  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Let them prattle on.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let them prattle on.  </p>
<p>Their discourse on &#8220;the most dangerous man to ever occupy the oval office&#8221; only serves to make the Republican party look foolish.   President Obama has been in office all of 4 days &#8211; and half a day was taken up with a parade and balls.  The American people aren&#39;t as stupid as Thiessen and others might imagine.</p>
<p>As I recall Bush had the support of about 99% of the American people after 9/11.  He had it when invaded Afghanistan.   There were questions about going to war with Iraq, given that Saddam wasn&#39;t a credible threat to the U.S. and had no nuclear facilities &#8211; the latter having been destroyed by Israel in 1981.  Even so, Bush still had the support of probably 80% in his decision to invade Iraq.  Most criticism was civil in tone.</p>
<p>Once it became clear that not only were there no WMDs, as Blix had correctly reported, and further that CIA information supporting the no-WMD scenario had been ignored and hidden, and that the post-war was being very poorly handled did the criticism of administration become louder.</p>
<p>Katrina was the nail in coffin for many.  The vast incompetence of his administration was clearly on display for all to see.  The economic collapse was the final proof of the total inability of his administration to address any crisis whatsoever for any remaining doubters.</p>
<p>Let&#39;s allow the Obama administration do the talking with their actions.  The new president would seem to be very result oriented.  If an idea fails, it will be discarded.  If an individual is not up to the job, he/she will be replaced.  The Republicans may not approve of the President&#39;s solutions, but they will not be able to claim he or his administration is incompetent.</p>
<p>The dustbin of history awaits all these fools.  And they will soon be gone; their moment of sound and fury, signifying nothing, has passed.  </p>
<p>Let them prattle on.</p>
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		<title>By: CStanley</title>
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		<dc:creator>CStanley</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Regardless, Jim, the commenters at Hotair are only a small segment of the GOP. I certainly don&#039;t claim them as my representatives, and again I&#039;ll point out that you&#039;d probably see the obvious fallacy if someone made the same presumption of commenters at certain left leaning blogs  representing he voice of the Democratic party.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Regardless, Jim, the commenters at Hotair are only a small segment of the GOP. I certainly don&#39;t claim them as my representatives, and again I&#39;ll point out that you&#39;d probably see the obvious fallacy if someone made the same presumption of commenters at certain left leaning blogs  representing he voice of the Democratic party.</p>
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		<title>By: charliehorse</title>
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		<dc:creator>charliehorse</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This newly released Liberal Arrogance is overwellming.  The profound vile hatred of Bush for the last eight years since the last hanging chad in Florida, has not stopped to this day.  Democrats tried to steal the 2000 election, and that needed to be solved by the Supreme Court, and they are still bitter.  Bush won re-election, so there are plenty of us here watching this new President and the Polosi Gang.  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Liberal arrogance is showing a tendency to attack those who are precieved to be their intellectual and cultural &quot;inferiors&quot;.  Do not speak to me while waving that &quot;I won&quot; so shut up!  Those who employ contempt instead of arguement, who are prone to shout down speakers they do not agree with, who precieve those who contradict them of having a lower IQ, and talk of &quot;reason&quot; while not exibiting any themselves had best beware.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This newly released Liberal Arrogance is overwellming.  The profound vile hatred of Bush for the last eight years since the last hanging chad in Florida, has not stopped to this day.  Democrats tried to steal the 2000 election, and that needed to be solved by the Supreme Court, and they are still bitter.  Bush won re-election, so there are plenty of us here watching this new President and the Polosi Gang.  </p>
<p>Liberal arrogance is showing a tendency to attack those who are precieved to be their intellectual and cultural &#8220;inferiors&#8221;.  Do not speak to me while waving that &#8220;I won&#8221; so shut up!  Those who employ contempt instead of arguement, who are prone to shout down speakers they do not agree with, who precieve those who contradict them of having a lower IQ, and talk of &#8220;reason&#8221; while not exibiting any themselves had best beware.</p>
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		<title>By: Jim_Satterfield</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jim_Satterfield</dc:creator>
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		<description>No, not conservatives. Republicans. The party core. The ones who are still certain that Bush did a fantastic job and it&#039;s all the fault of the Democrats. They are not necessarily the same thing.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No, not conservatives. Republicans. The party core. The ones who are still certain that Bush did a fantastic job and it&#39;s all the fault of the Democrats. They are not necessarily the same thing.</p>
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		<title>By: CStanley</title>
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		<dc:creator>CStanley</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Jim, generalization means that you are taking a small subset (HotAir commenters) and assuming their characteristics fit the larger group that they&#039;re a part of (conservatives.)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jim, generalization means that you are taking a small subset (HotAir commenters) and assuming their characteristics fit the larger group that they&#39;re a part of (conservatives.)</p>
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		<title>By: StockBoySF</title>
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		<dc:creator>StockBoySF</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 10:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;I won&quot;.....  because voters wanted a new leader as President, and not just another Republican.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;I won&quot;..... because voters wanted a new direction for the country.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;I won&quot;..... because voters wanted someone more representative of the country.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;I won&quot;.... because voters no longer trust the Republicans who have been dividing the country with their rhetoric and catering to the religious right.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;I won&quot;.... because voters felt that the Democrats could handle the economy and other domestic issues better than the Republicans.  The past eight years of Bush policies have gotten us to where we are today.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;I won&quot;.... because I&#039;m not George Bush (or Sarah Palin) and I can actually put two words together coherently, I graduated with honors from Harvard law and I can think critically and objectively.  These are all traits voters value in the leader of the free world.  Positions will be given to qualified people.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;And lastly....&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;I won&quot;.... because voters are tired of the partisan bickering.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;So Republicans, remember I won for those reasons.  Stop being obstructionists and let&#039;s get to work.  I&#039;m willing to listen to you and offer true compromise, but at the end of the day I have final say.  You won&#039;t get everything you want so stop whining and be adults.  The rules have changed and the American people and I want a different tone in DC.  There are huge problems that need to be solved and the buck stops with me.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;I won&#8221;&#8230;..  because voters wanted a new leader as President, and not just another Republican.</p>
<p>&#8220;I won&#8221;&#8230;.. because voters wanted a new direction for the country.</p>
<p>&#8220;I won&#8221;&#8230;.. because voters wanted someone more representative of the country.</p>
<p>&#8220;I won&#8221;&#8230;. because voters no longer trust the Republicans who have been dividing the country with their rhetoric and catering to the religious right.</p>
<p>&#8220;I won&#8221;&#8230;. because voters felt that the Democrats could handle the economy and other domestic issues better than the Republicans.  The past eight years of Bush policies have gotten us to where we are today.</p>
<p>&#8220;I won&#8221;&#8230;. because I&#39;m not George Bush (or Sarah Palin) and I can actually put two words together coherently, I graduated with honors from Harvard law and I can think critically and objectively.  These are all traits voters value in the leader of the free world.  Positions will be given to qualified people.</p>
<p>And lastly&#8230;.</p>
<p>&#8220;I won&#8221;&#8230;. because voters are tired of the partisan bickering.</p>
<p>So Republicans, remember I won for those reasons.  Stop being obstructionists and let&#39;s get to work.  I&#39;m willing to listen to you and offer true compromise, but at the end of the day I have final say.  You won&#39;t get everything you want so stop whining and be adults.  The rules have changed and the American people and I want a different tone in DC.  There are huge problems that need to be solved and the buck stops with me.</p>
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		<title>By: Jim_Satterfield</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jim_Satterfield</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 05:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s not a sweeping generalization. It came from reading the entire comment thread of the article you linked to, CS. And this isn&#039;t the first time I&#039;ve read something over there, either. And it always reads something like this...&lt;br&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;br&gt;Shyah. I quit liking your movies a long time ago. D-bag&lt;br&gt;--------------------------------&lt;br&gt;F**k you, Tom Hanks.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Being gay in un-American.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;And I don’t apologize for that.&lt;br&gt;--------------------------------&lt;br&gt;Hey Tom! At least I’m consistent. Same comment I made last week. F**K YOU! &lt;i&gt;(I had to put in the stars on that one.)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;--------------------------------&lt;br&gt;Up yours Hanks!&lt;br&gt;--------------------------------&lt;br&gt;Just as long as we allow the same rights be granted to polygamists, those who practice incest (or liberals as I call them) and anyone who wants to marry a dog, horse, corpse or their living room couch.&lt;br&gt;--------------------------------&lt;br&gt;The little balls of shit that roll out of your mouth every time you open it is typical of your ilk.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;You’re nothing special….we’ve seen it before and it is simply the same old liberal moonbattiness.&lt;br&gt;--------------------------------&lt;br&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;And those were just some of the &quot;highlights&quot;. It didn&#039;t even include the ones that left off at calling Tom Hanks lesser names because of course they all knew that he didn&#039;t mean his apology thanks to their powers of Republican omniscient telepathy. Or at least I assume that&#039;s how they knew he was lying and only apologizing for the sake of his career.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#39;s not a sweeping generalization. It came from reading the entire comment thread of the article you linked to, CS. And this isn&#39;t the first time I&#39;ve read something over there, either. And it always reads something like this&#8230;<br />
<blockquote>Shyah. I quit liking your movies a long time ago. D-bag<br />&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br />F**k you, Tom Hanks.</p>
<p>Being gay in un-American.</p>
<p>And I don’t apologize for that.<br />&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br />Hey Tom! At least I’m consistent. Same comment I made last week. F**K YOU! <i>(I had to put in the stars on that one.)</i><br />&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br />Up yours Hanks!<br />&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br />Just as long as we allow the same rights be granted to polygamists, those who practice incest (or liberals as I call them) and anyone who wants to marry a dog, horse, corpse or their living room couch.<br />&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br />The little balls of shit that roll out of your mouth every time you open it is typical of your ilk.</p>
<p>You’re nothing special….we’ve seen it before and it is simply the same old liberal moonbattiness.<br />&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;</p></blockquote>
<p>And those were just some of the &#8220;highlights&#8221;. It didn&#39;t even include the ones that left off at calling Tom Hanks lesser names because of course they all knew that he didn&#39;t mean his apology thanks to their powers of Republican omniscient telepathy. Or at least I assume that&#39;s how they knew he was lying and only apologizing for the sake of his career.</p>
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		<title>By: JSpencer</title>
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		<dc:creator>JSpencer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 04:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s true, the Bush II era received much criticism, but in retrospect we can see most of it was warranted, afterall there&#039;s an 8 year record - a record even his supporters must admit isn&#039;t pleasant to look at. In contrast, most of this Obama criticism is based on what? A few days in the White House? C&#039;mon folks, it isn&#039;t that hard to understand the difference between deserved criticism and gratuitous criticism. Sure, I sympathize with the frustrated partisans and ideologues, but only to a point. They would be wise to see this as an opportunity for a little self-examination and not just another feeding time for a hungry reactionary cycle.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#39;s true, the Bush II era received much criticism, but in retrospect we can see most of it was warranted, afterall there&#39;s an 8 year record &#8211; a record even his supporters must admit isn&#39;t pleasant to look at. In contrast, most of this Obama criticism is based on what? A few days in the White House? C&#39;mon folks, it isn&#39;t that hard to understand the difference between deserved criticism and gratuitous criticism. Sure, I sympathize with the frustrated partisans and ideologues, but only to a point. They would be wise to see this as an opportunity for a little self-examination and not just another feeding time for a hungry reactionary cycle.</p>
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		<title>By: ChrisWWW</title>
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		<dc:creator>ChrisWWW</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 04:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>All of this is completely unremarkable. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The good news is that the public stopped listening to Republicans. They can be as vile as they want in their own little echo chamber.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>All of this is completely unremarkable. </p>
<p>The good news is that the public stopped listening to Republicans. They can be as vile as they want in their own little echo chamber.</p>
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