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		<title>By: catransplant</title>
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		<dc:creator>catransplant</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 02:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>To me it sounds like a  sensible global approach to a real problem.  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I am still waiting for an as direct statement of policy on Mexico.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To me it sounds like a  sensible global approach to a real problem.  </p>
<p>I am still waiting for an as direct statement of policy on Mexico.</p>
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		<title>By: Silhouette</title>
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		<dc:creator>Silhouette</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 02:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I never watched Oprah...lol..  She&#039;s that rich black lady that gets fat and thin a lot right?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;No, not nipping anything. I just shoot from the hip as I see it.  I may be totally wrong, but then again I may not be.  ?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I never watched Oprah&#8230;lol..  She&#39;s that rich black lady that gets fat and thin a lot right?</p>
<p>No, not nipping anything. I just shoot from the hip as I see it.  I may be totally wrong, but then again I may not be.  ?</p>
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		<title>By: Don Quijote</title>
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		<dc:creator>Don Quijote</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You kiss goodbye to the Obama presidency and the liberal moment...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You kiss goodbye to the Obama presidency and the liberal moment&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: andrewwang</title>
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		<dc:creator>andrewwang</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Obama’s strategy is considerable.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;LONG LIVE PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Obama is a racial-minority individual and does not like racism:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I know it may be hard to believe.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;However, it is absolutely true that Ronald Wilson Reagan committed horrible, racist, hate crimes during his presidency.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;A lot of people know about Reagan’s infamy.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;And a lot of people will know about Reagan’s infamy—even until the end of human existence: they’ll find out.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Numbers 32:23: “Be sure your sins will find you out.” &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Respectfully Submitted by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang, J.D. Candidate&lt;br&gt;B.S., With the Highest Level of Academic Honors at Graduation, 1996&lt;br&gt;Messiah College, Grantham, PA&lt;br&gt;Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;(I can type 90 words per minute, and there are thousands of copies on the Internet indicating the content of this post. And there are thousands of copies in very many countries around the world.)&lt;br&gt;_________________&lt;br&gt;‘If only there could be a BAN against invention that bottled up memories like scent so they never faded &amp; they never got stale.’ (Once again, please consider an illustrative analogy: like scent that is held in or restrained or inhibited or suppressed or bottled up.) It came from my Lower Merion High School yearbook.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Obama’s strategy is considerable.</p>
<p>LONG LIVE PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA!</p>
<p>Obama is a racial-minority individual and does not like racism:</p>
<p>I know it may be hard to believe.</p>
<p>However, it is absolutely true that Ronald Wilson Reagan committed horrible, racist, hate crimes during his presidency.</p>
<p>A lot of people know about Reagan’s infamy.</p>
<p>And a lot of people will know about Reagan’s infamy—even until the end of human existence: they’ll find out.</p>
<p>Numbers 32:23: “Be sure your sins will find you out.” </p>
<p>Respectfully Submitted by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang, J.D. Candidate<br />B.S., With the Highest Level of Academic Honors at Graduation, 1996<br />Messiah College, Grantham, PA<br />Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993</p>
<p>(I can type 90 words per minute, and there are thousands of copies on the Internet indicating the content of this post. And there are thousands of copies in very many countries around the world.)<br />_________________<br />‘If only there could be a BAN against invention that bottled up memories like scent so they never faded &#038; they never got stale.’ (Once again, please consider an illustrative analogy: like scent that is held in or restrained or inhibited or suppressed or bottled up.) It came from my Lower Merion High School yearbook.</p>
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		<title>By: casualobserver</title>
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		<dc:creator>casualobserver</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Silhouette, I can&#039;t tell this time whether your comments stem from your terminal BDS or if you were nipping too much vodka while watching Oprah today.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The GOP had as much to do with this as the stimulus and the budget.....remember you guys keep lecturing there is no  bipartisanship anywhere in evidence..........you can&#039;t have two realities going at the same time.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Despite Gandelman&#039;s patently weak defense that this is not a continuation of neoconservatism....because the term &quot;nation-building&quot; was pointedly omitted (gosh, I wonder why that was!!)........it fits the very definition pretty closely to what the prior administration was doing.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;To assuage the lefty egos, I guess we can refrain from calling this a continuation of neoconservatism and relabel it the birth of neoliberalism.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Silhouette, I can&#39;t tell this time whether your comments stem from your terminal BDS or if you were nipping too much vodka while watching Oprah today.</p>
<p>The GOP had as much to do with this as the stimulus and the budget&#8230;..remember you guys keep lecturing there is no  bipartisanship anywhere in evidence&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.you can&#39;t have two realities going at the same time.</p>
<p>Despite Gandelman&#39;s patently weak defense that this is not a continuation of neoconservatism&#8230;.because the term &#8220;nation-building&#8221; was pointedly omitted (gosh, I wonder why that was!!)&#8230;&#8230;..it fits the very definition pretty closely to what the prior administration was doing.</p>
<p>To assuage the lefty egos, I guess we can refrain from calling this a continuation of neoconservatism and relabel it the birth of neoliberalism.</p>
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		<title>By: Silhouette</title>
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		<dc:creator>Silhouette</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The GOP must be squirming with delight [and whispering in Obama&#039;s ears] &#039;yes!  go and fight in Afghanistan&quot;.  After all, his failures will be their gain.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Nevermind what happens to our country as a result.  If the GOP has demonstrated nothing else it has shown that it will engage in any behavior or activity guaranteed to preserve its ranks and influence even over the nation itself.  Time to recognize the tail-eating dragon and shut out its influence before its too late.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;When my kids were fighting constantly when little, it often helped to just walk out of the room.  I found that when they had no audience, there was no more incentive to carry on.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The GOP must be squirming with delight [and whispering in Obama&#39;s ears] &#39;yes!  go and fight in Afghanistan&#8221;.  After all, his failures will be their gain.</p>
<p>Nevermind what happens to our country as a result.  If the GOP has demonstrated nothing else it has shown that it will engage in any behavior or activity guaranteed to preserve its ranks and influence even over the nation itself.  Time to recognize the tail-eating dragon and shut out its influence before its too late.</p>
<p>When my kids were fighting constantly when little, it often helped to just walk out of the room.  I found that when they had no audience, there was no more incentive to carry on.</p>
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		<title>By: Skaredykatt</title>
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		<dc:creator>Skaredykatt</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Poorly defined.  Impossible to accomplish and a total waste of money, time, lives and resources.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Afghanistan is the arm pit of the world.  It should be allowed to continue on its masterful ways of providing drugs to Americans, beating women and killing anyone who dared believe their was no God.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is Obama&#039;s Afghanistan.  While the surge might have worked in a perfectly flat dessert nation such as Iraq their is no way in hell that 100k more troops are going to matter in the mountains of Afghanistan where the people simply stage in Pakistan, hit and run and then run back to safety.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Obama.  Your an Idiot for not pulling out YESTERDAY.  But thats okay.  China will lend us more money to continue our road to bankruptcy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Poorly defined.  Impossible to accomplish and a total waste of money, time, lives and resources.</p>
<p>Afghanistan is the arm pit of the world.  It should be allowed to continue on its masterful ways of providing drugs to Americans, beating women and killing anyone who dared believe their was no God.</p>
<p>This is Obama&#39;s Afghanistan.  While the surge might have worked in a perfectly flat dessert nation such as Iraq their is no way in hell that 100k more troops are going to matter in the mountains of Afghanistan where the people simply stage in Pakistan, hit and run and then run back to safety.</p>
<p>Obama.  Your an Idiot for not pulling out YESTERDAY.  But thats okay.  China will lend us more money to continue our road to bankruptcy.</p>
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		<title>By: Silhouette</title>
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		<dc:creator>Silhouette</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>All I read were the words &quot;pour money&quot; and &quot;Afghanistan&quot;.  Then I read another article on our economy.  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Is blindness really this pervasive of a blight in the political spheres?  And who is Al Qaida exactly?  Why was their leader&#039;s brother involved with Dubya at such an intimate level in business and finance..friends of the Bush family?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Are we chasing a fabricated public whip?  Might not Al Qaida be defeated by acknowledging instead that they might have a legitimate beef with what BigOil conspirators in suits AND turbins did to their culture?  Shouldn&#039;t we all ban together and chase the real world terrorists, the corporate monopolizers who think nothing of blood-for-profit even at the expense of world peace and our nation&#039;s fiscal solvency?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;These aren&#039;t words spouted from some left-wing nut job, these are conclusions people have come to after much though, reflection and connecting the dots.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Terrorists don&#039;t just spring out of nowhere.  People get really really angry for good solid reasons that have been left to fester, with salt thrown in the wounds for extra hurt.  Maybe, just maybe, possibly we should look for the origins of these festering inflicted-wounds in Al Qaida and see if we had a hand in any of it.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Nah, that would be far cheaper and more reasonable than spending money we don&#039;t have to spend in the black hole that is Afghanistan and &quot;the pursuit to stamp out Al Qaida&quot;.  What that pursuit should really be called is &#039;the pursuit to pour gasoline on fire&quot; to end the &quot;threat&quot; to our nation.  Speaking of gasoline....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>All I read were the words &#8220;pour money&#8221; and &#8220;Afghanistan&#8221;.  Then I read another article on our economy.  </p>
<p>Is blindness really this pervasive of a blight in the political spheres?  And who is Al Qaida exactly?  Why was their leader&#39;s brother involved with Dubya at such an intimate level in business and finance..friends of the Bush family?</p>
<p>Are we chasing a fabricated public whip?  Might not Al Qaida be defeated by acknowledging instead that they might have a legitimate beef with what BigOil conspirators in suits AND turbins did to their culture?  Shouldn&#39;t we all ban together and chase the real world terrorists, the corporate monopolizers who think nothing of blood-for-profit even at the expense of world peace and our nation&#39;s fiscal solvency?</p>
<p>These aren&#39;t words spouted from some left-wing nut job, these are conclusions people have come to after much though, reflection and connecting the dots.</p>
<p>Terrorists don&#39;t just spring out of nowhere.  People get really really angry for good solid reasons that have been left to fester, with salt thrown in the wounds for extra hurt.  Maybe, just maybe, possibly we should look for the origins of these festering inflicted-wounds in Al Qaida and see if we had a hand in any of it.</p>
<p>Nah, that would be far cheaper and more reasonable than spending money we don&#39;t have to spend in the black hole that is Afghanistan and &#8220;the pursuit to stamp out Al Qaida&#8221;.  What that pursuit should really be called is &#39;the pursuit to pour gasoline on fire&#8221; to end the &#8220;threat&#8221; to our nation.  Speaking of gasoline&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: Janjanjan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Janjanjan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Chris Matthews commented that he remembered Kennedy doing virtually the same thing when he decided to focus on VietNam and let Laos go.  I don&#039;t remember that particular announcement, but I surely do remember vividly exactly where I was and what I thought when Johnson announced the troop buildup in VietNam in 1964.  I sure hope that this doesn&#039;t become another VietNam for us, but I&#039;m not optimistic.  On the flip side, much of what I&#039;ve read is that if we leave, not only will the radical Taliban retake the country, but they will encourage Al-Quaeda and other organization to use their country to train for missions to harm the US.  So, maybe if we hold minimum objectives, and can stand the loss of American lives, this can be a holding action to prevent further destabilization of the region and resulting attacks on the US.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Chris Matthews commented that he remembered Kennedy doing virtually the same thing when he decided to focus on VietNam and let Laos go.  I don&#39;t remember that particular announcement, but I surely do remember vividly exactly where I was and what I thought when Johnson announced the troop buildup in VietNam in 1964.  I sure hope that this doesn&#39;t become another VietNam for us, but I&#39;m not optimistic.  On the flip side, much of what I&#39;ve read is that if we leave, not only will the radical Taliban retake the country, but they will encourage Al-Quaeda and other organization to use their country to train for missions to harm the US.  So, maybe if we hold minimum objectives, and can stand the loss of American lives, this can be a holding action to prevent further destabilization of the region and resulting attacks on the US.</p>
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