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		<title>Comment on Big Three&#8217;s Top Three Living in Bygone Age of Laudable Excess by US Election On Best Political Blogs &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Big Three’s Top Three Living in Bygone Age of Laudable Excess &#8230;</title>
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		<dc:creator>US Election On Best Political Blogs &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Big Three’s Top Three Living in Bygone Age of Laudable Excess &#8230;</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Big Three’s Top Three Living in Bygone Age of Laudable Excess &#8230; The chief executives of three major corporations who claim to be the deciding factor in as many as one in every ten jobs in the US, over 13 million people, contemplating tens of thousands of layoffs in a not-too-distant future and whose &#8230; [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] Big Three’s Top Three Living in Bygone Age of Laudable Excess &#8230; The chief executives of three major corporations who claim to be the deciding factor in as many as one in every ten jobs in the US, over 13 million people, contemplating tens of thousands of layoffs in a not-too-distant future and whose &#8230; [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Comment on Ripe for Change: What will this season of turning bring? (photos + essay) by Big Three&#8217;s Top Three Living in Bygone Age of Laudable Excess &#124; CafeSentido.com</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/16/741/ripe-for-change-what-will-this-season-of-turning-bring-photos-essay/#comment-608</link>
		<dc:creator>Big Three&#8217;s Top Three Living in Bygone Age of Laudable Excess &#124; CafeSentido.com</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] of life of potentially millions of people, must take seriously that their efforts must comprehend the nature of the times, or they will be a dangerous drag on [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] of life of potentially millions of people, must take seriously that their efforts must comprehend the nature of the times, or they will be a dangerous drag on [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Comment on &#8216;Voter Fraud&#8217; Issue Linked to Efforts to Reduce Voter Participation, Elect Republican Candidates by ‘Voter Fraud’ Issue Linked to Efforts to Reduce Voter &#8230; at Voter Fraud On Best Political Blogs</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/10/09/641/voter-fraud-issue-linked-to-efforts-to-reduce-voter-participation-elect-republican-candidates/#comment-607</link>
		<dc:creator>‘Voter Fraud’ Issue Linked to Efforts to Reduce Voter &#8230; at Voter Fraud On Best Political Blogs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] ‘Voter Fraud’ Issue Linked to Efforts to Reduce Voter &#8230; ‘Voter Fraud’ Issue Linked to Efforts to Reduce Voter Participation, Elect Republican Candidates The state of Ohio was ground zero in the 2004 presidential election for the controversial “voter fraud” issue, which Republican officials &#8230; [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] ‘Voter Fraud’ Issue Linked to Efforts to Reduce Voter &#8230; ‘Voter Fraud’ Issue Linked to Efforts to Reduce Voter Participation, Elect Republican Candidates The state of Ohio was ground zero in the 2004 presidential election for the controversial “voter fraud” issue, which Republican officials &#8230; [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Comment on Water Resource Stress: Global Economic-Ecological Challenge for the 21st Century by Massive Pollution-based Weather-system Choking South &#38; East Asia &#124; CafeSentido.com</title>
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		<dc:creator>Massive Pollution-based Weather-system Choking South &#38; East Asia &#124; CafeSentido.com</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:36:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] smog front is among the world&#8217;s most hydro-scarce, raising concerns about the prospects of an accelerated global water shortage, the consequences of which could be unprecedented mass migration, tens of millions of deaths from [...]</description>
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		<title>Comment on 3 Contested Senate Races Could Swing to Democrats, Giving them 60 by US Election On Best Political Blogs &#187; Blog Archive &#187; 3 Contested Senate Races Could Swing to Democrats, Giving them 60</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/17/765/3-contested-senate-races-could-swing-to-democrats-giving-them-60/#comment-596</link>
		<dc:creator>US Election On Best Political Blogs &#187; Blog Archive &#187; 3 Contested Senate Races Could Swing to Democrats, Giving them 60</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] 3 Contested Senate Races Could Swing to Democrats, Giving them 60 In Alaska, 7-count convicted felon Sen. Ted Stevens had narrowly led Anchorage mayor Mark Begich, but counting of early-cast paper ballots and absentee votes has favored Begich, a Democrat in a Republican-controlled state, and Begich is now favored to win. Georgia Republican incumbent Saxby Chambliss is now facing a heated runoff, in which more campaign cash is being spent than in the first round and John McCain has taken to the campaign trail. In Minnesota, author and radio-host Al Franken trai [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] 3 Contested Senate Races Could Swing to Democrats, Giving them 60 In Alaska, 7-count convicted felon Sen. Ted Stevens had narrowly led Anchorage mayor Mark Begich, but counting of early-cast paper ballots and absentee votes has favored Begich, a Democrat in a Republican-controlled state, and Begich is now favored to win. Georgia Republican incumbent Saxby Chambliss is now facing a heated runoff, in which more campaign cash is being spent than in the first round and John McCain has taken to the campaign trail. In Minnesota, author and radio-host Al Franken trai [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Comment on Nobel Peace Prize Awarded for Work to Raise Awareness About Global Climate Change by Massive Pollution-based Weather-system Choking South &#38; East Asia &#124; CafeSentido.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:32:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] scientists, including the Nobel-Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and colleagues working for NASA and the ESA, are increasingly concerned that human-induced [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] scientists, including the Nobel-Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and colleagues working for NASA and the ESA, are increasingly concerned that human-induced [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Comment on Obama Composite National Healthcare Plan: Net Cost Decrease for Avg. Family by The Transition to Governing: Reversing a Perfect Storm &#124; CafeSentido.com</title>
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		<dc:creator>The Transition to Governing: Reversing a Perfect Storm &#124; CafeSentido.com</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] help the private sector deliver complete health coverage, at affordable prices, to all Americans. The Obama plan is not socialized healthcare, and it is not a government-run system. It will make requirements of the private sector that are not currently in place, and will use tax [...]</description>
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		<title>Comment on American Schools Lagging Because Focus Not on Capacity to Reason by Ripe for Change: What will this season of turning bring? (photos + essay) &#124; CafeSentido.com</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/10/12/654/american-schools-lagging-because-focus-not-on-capacity-to-reason/#comment-590</link>
		<dc:creator>Ripe for Change: What will this season of turning bring? (photos + essay) &#124; CafeSentido.com</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] and complex examination of the facts and the future course of a people at last became the fashion. Clarity of thought before prejudice; hope and determination before fear and division; a sea change coming over the political culture of [...]</description>
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		<title>Comment on Text of Sen. Barack Obama&#8217;s Campaign Announcement Speech by Ripe for Change: What will this season of turning bring? (photos + essay) &#124; CafeSentido.com</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2007/02/10/278/text-of-sen-barack-obamas-campaign-announcement-speech/#comment-589</link>
		<dc:creator>Ripe for Change: What will this season of turning bring? (photos + essay) &#124; CafeSentido.com</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Yet the singular truth of the moment, related to that adage that &#8220;all politics is local&#8221; —what we learned from the need of so many to interact on a high plane of social discourse, of civic involvement— was that the individual will, the nature of one&#8217;s ability to grasp and to face difficulty, would be the root of recovery. If left on the open sands of desolation, the individual will could be strong, could be noble and definite, and yet falter; but coming together, negotiating around a campfire mentality of solemn devotion to a shared vision of liberty and prosperity, that individual will could be something more, something both brilliant and effective, part of a vibrant declaration of intent. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] Yet the singular truth of the moment, related to that adage that &#8220;all politics is local&#8221; —what we learned from the need of so many to interact on a high plane of social discourse, of civic involvement— was that the individual will, the nature of one&#8217;s ability to grasp and to face difficulty, would be the root of recovery. If left on the open sands of desolation, the individual will could be strong, could be noble and definite, and yet falter; but coming together, negotiating around a campfire mentality of solemn devotion to a shared vision of liberty and prosperity, that individual will could be something more, something both brilliant and effective, part of a vibrant declaration of intent. [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Comment on The Transition to Governing: Reversing a Perfect Storm by Ripe for Change: What will this season of turning bring? (photos + essay) &#124; CafeSentido.com</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/06/678/the-transition-to-governing-reversing-a-perfect-storm/#comment-588</link>
		<dc:creator>Ripe for Change: What will this season of turning bring? (photos + essay) &#124; CafeSentido.com</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] What may come next, what policies are precisely appropriate, what the existential value of competing political philosophies might be, if inclusion or exclusion are wise or perilous, became topics for discussion. Political discourse became a kind of heating oil to warm the spaces between living, working and fretting about impending upheavals, despite the persistent injection of wisps of hysterical fear-mongering. The space of political debate expanded into vastly divergent realms of life and culture, became a warmer, more habitable space. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] What may come next, what policies are precisely appropriate, what the existential value of competing political philosophies might be, if inclusion or exclusion are wise or perilous, became topics for discussion. Political discourse became a kind of heating oil to warm the spaces between living, working and fretting about impending upheavals, despite the persistent injection of wisps of hysterical fear-mongering. The space of political debate expanded into vastly divergent realms of life and culture, became a warmer, more habitable space. [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Comment on Everyone is Alone, Sometimes by Ripe for Change: What will this season of turning bring? (photos + essay) &#124; CafeSentido.com</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/08/04/353/everyone-is-alone-sometimes/#comment-587</link>
		<dc:creator>Ripe for Change: What will this season of turning bring? (photos + essay) &#124; CafeSentido.com</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] need of so many to interact on a high plane of social discourse, of civic involvement— was that the individual will, the nature of one&#8217;s ability to grasp and to face difficulty, would be the root of recovery. If left on the open sands of desolation, the individual will could [...]</description>
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		<title>Comment on The Illusion of the Definite &#038; Invasive &#8216;Other&#8217; by Ripe for Change: What will this season of turning bring? (photos + essay) &#124; CafeSentido.com</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2006/05/25/66/the-illusion-of-the-definite-invasive-other/#comment-586</link>
		<dc:creator>Ripe for Change: What will this season of turning bring? (photos + essay) &#124; CafeSentido.com</dc:creator>
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		<description>[...] precisely appropriate, what the existential value of competing political philosophies might be, if inclusion or exclusion are wise or perilous, became topics for discussion. Political discourse became a kind of heating [...]</description>
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		<title>Comment on A Celebration of the Transcendent &#038; the Sublime by Ripe for Change: What will this season of turning bring? (photos + essay) &#124; CafeSentido.com</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/07/04/465/a-celebration-of-the-transcendent-the-sublime/#comment-585</link>
		<dc:creator>Ripe for Change: What will this season of turning bring? (photos + essay) &#124; CafeSentido.com</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] if to illustrate that a free people freely reinvents itself, and charts a new course, at will, with special vigor in the hardest of times, political strategy [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] if to illustrate that a free people freely reinvents itself, and charts a new course, at will, with special vigor in the hardest of times, political strategy [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Comment on Obama Healthcare Plan Emphasizes Generics to Bring Down Costs Across System by Obama Health Care Reform: New Awareness of an Old Problem &#124; Thomas A. Sharon, R.N., M.P.H.</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/14/739/obama-healthcare-plan-emphasizes-generics-to-bring-down-costs-across-system/#comment-584</link>
		<dc:creator>Obama Health Care Reform: New Awareness of an Old Problem &#124; Thomas A. Sharon, R.N., M.P.H.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Comment on Ripe for Change: What will this season of turning bring? (photos + essay) by US Election On Best Political Blogs &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Ripe for Change: What will this season of turning bring? (photos + essay)</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/16/741/ripe-for-change-what-will-this-season-of-turning-bring-photos-essay/#comment-583</link>
		<dc:creator>US Election On Best Political Blogs &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Ripe for Change: What will this season of turning bring? (photos + essay)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Ripe for Change: What will this season of turning bring? (photos + essay) A &#8220;wave election&#8221;, with public sentiment clearly moving in a new direction, calling for principled governance, with a new focus on progressive aims&#8230; economic crisis, having built up over a decade, hidden in the esoteric workings of financial instruments reliant on advanced physics for mathematical proof of viability, worsened by unprincipled exaggerations and manipulations&#8230; the potential for a major swing in global opinions about the meaning of political systems&#8230; the climate is ripe for ch [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] Ripe for Change: What will this season of turning bring? (photos + essay) A &#8220;wave election&#8221;, with public sentiment clearly moving in a new direction, calling for principled governance, with a new focus on progressive aims&#8230; economic crisis, having built up over a decade, hidden in the esoteric workings of financial instruments reliant on advanced physics for mathematical proof of viability, worsened by unprincipled exaggerations and manipulations&#8230; the potential for a major swing in global opinions about the meaning of political systems&#8230; the climate is ripe for ch [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Comment on On the Question of Hope by Ripe for Change: What will this season of turning bring? (photos + essay) &#124; CafeSentido.com</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/09/25/608/on-the-question-of-hope/#comment-582</link>
		<dc:creator>Ripe for Change: What will this season of turning bring? (photos + essay) &#124; CafeSentido.com</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] We should see, coming into being, in coming months and years, new political coalitions, new social organizations, visions that seed the cultural landscape for improvement, working to ensure that the lessons for democracy that we now have at hand can actually be remembered, examined, and practiced. This is a time in which the aspirational and the factual can actually be seen coming together, in which we have given ourselves room to breathe, because we have trusted in the possibility of making a better day possible. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] We should see, coming into being, in coming months and years, new political coalitions, new social organizations, visions that seed the cultural landscape for improvement, working to ensure that the lessons for democracy that we now have at hand can actually be remembered, examined, and practiced. This is a time in which the aspirational and the factual can actually be seen coming together, in which we have given ourselves room to breathe, because we have trusted in the possibility of making a better day possible. [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Comment on A Bubble Too Far: Property Pricing Boom is Putting Pressure on Entire World Economy by Ripe for Change: What will this season of turning bring? (photos + essay) &#124; CafeSentido.com</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2006/01/22/667/a-bubble-too-far-property-pricing-boom-is-putting-pressure-on-entire-world-economy/#comment-581</link>
		<dc:creator>Ripe for Change: What will this season of turning bring? (photos + essay) &#124; CafeSentido.com</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] the signs of a new &#8220;gilded age&#8221; were visible and were seeping into the consciousness of concerned observers. The problem was, however, what to [...]</description>
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		<title>Comment on 50-state Rally Shows Record Support for Same-Sex Marriage by US Election On Best Political Blogs &#187; Blog Archive &#187; 50-state Rally Shows Record Support for Same-Sex Marriage</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/16/740/50-state-rally-shows-record-support-for-same-sex-marriage/#comment-580</link>
		<dc:creator>US Election On Best Political Blogs &#187; Blog Archive &#187; 50-state Rally Shows Record Support for Same-Sex Marriage</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] 50-state Rally Shows Record Support for Same-Sex Marriage Since California voted to ban same-sex marriage —legal there since a state supreme court ruling finding in favor of gay marriage rights on constitutional grounds— on 4 November, there have been daily demonstrations against the ban. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has expressed his hope that the ban will be overturned or repealed. On Saturday, 11 days after the ban was voted in by referendum, a nationwide rally for same-sex marriage rights achieved unprecedented numbers, with a presence in all 50 stat [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] 50-state Rally Shows Record Support for Same-Sex Marriage Since California voted to ban same-sex marriage —legal there since a state supreme court ruling finding in favor of gay marriage rights on constitutional grounds— on 4 November, there have been daily demonstrations against the ban. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has expressed his hope that the ban will be overturned or repealed. On Saturday, 11 days after the ban was voted in by referendum, a nationwide rally for same-sex marriage rights achieved unprecedented numbers, with a presence in all 50 stat [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Comment on Obama Lays Groundwork for Pragmatist Revolution by Obama Composite National Healthcare Plan: Net Cost Decrease for Avg. Family &#124; CafeSentido.com</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/07/723/obama-lays-groundwork-for-pragmatist-revolution/#comment-579</link>
		<dc:creator>Obama Composite National Healthcare Plan: Net Cost Decrease for Avg. Family &#124; CafeSentido.com</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] to be one area where Obama&#8217;s plan could be unacceptable to fiscal conservatives, though Obama&#8217;s pragmatist fiscal policy is largely in line with conservative fiscal policy and aims to cover new spending with spending [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] to be one area where Obama&#8217;s plan could be unacceptable to fiscal conservatives, though Obama&#8217;s pragmatist fiscal policy is largely in line with conservative fiscal policy and aims to cover new spending with spending [&#8230;]</p>
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		<description>[...] top White House aide was reported early on the first day after the election victory: an offer of the post of White House chief of staff to Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL). Emanuel mulled the decision, and reports suggested he might turn it down to continue his career in [...]</description>
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		<description>[...] $700 billion financial rescue package passed by Congress and signed into law by Pres. Bush has already begun to be implemented, with $250 [...]</description>
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		<description>&lt;a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/11/10/121042/51/458/658568" rel="nofollow"&gt;Obama the PRAGMATIST - (he is no wild eyed progressive)&lt;/a&gt;
by jamgirl86
Mon Nov 10, 2008 at 09:19:56 AM PST

After much analysis, I think many of the netroot supporters are going to be in for a lot of handwringing about the Pragmatic (non-idealistic) nature of the Obama presidency.

One case in point is when he was Pres. of the Harvard Law Review - he allowed a savage attack on Aff. Action to be printed and had more federalists/conservative appointements than progressive ones.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/11/10/121042/51/458/658568" rel="nofollow">Obama the PRAGMATIST - (he is no wild eyed progressive)</a><br />
by jamgirl86<br />
Mon Nov 10, 2008 at 09:19:56 AM PST</p>
<p>After much analysis, I think many of the netroot supporters are going to be in for a lot of handwringing about the Pragmatic (non-idealistic) nature of the Obama presidency.</p>
<p>One case in point is when he was Pres. of the Harvard Law Review - he allowed a savage attack on Aff. Action to be printed and had more federalists/conservative appointements than progressive ones.</p>
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		<description>[...] Declaration of Independence or Martin Luther King&#8217;s &#8220;I have a dream&#8221; speech are eloquent not merely as expert wordsmithy, but because they transmit transcendent truths, and [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] Declaration of Independence or Martin Luther King&#8217;s &#8220;I have a dream&#8221; speech are eloquent not merely as expert wordsmithy, but because they transmit transcendent truths, and [&#8230;]</p>
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		<description>[...] among diverse forms, forces, materials and beings, nothing of the universe we know could exist. It is the collision, the mechanics, the action and reaction, the combination and differentiation amo... Within the intelligent recourse to variety, there exists for humanity a maximum possibility for [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] among diverse forms, forces, materials and beings, nothing of the universe we know could exist. It is the collision, the mechanics, the action and reaction, the combination and differentiation amo&#8230; Within the intelligent recourse to variety, there exists for humanity a maximum possibility for [&#8230;]</p>
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		<dc:creator>How a Generative Economic Strategy Trumps &#8216;Trickle-down&#8217; &#124; CafeSentido.com</dc:creator>
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		<description>[...] market policy could not have a constricting effect on capital. We now see that abundance can produce economic pathologies that lead to widespread scarcity, and prolonged [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] market policy could not have a constricting effect on capital. We now see that abundance can produce economic pathologies that lead to widespread scarcity, and prolonged [&#8230;]</p>
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		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/11/05/712/this-victory-belongs-to-you-obama-victory-speech-grant-park-chicago-transcript/#comment-565</link>
		<dc:creator>Obama Lays Groundwork for Pragmatist Revolution &#124; CafeSentido.com</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 05:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] In his acceptance speech, while laying out once again his vision of a vibrant middle class as the backbone of American prosperity, his awareness of the challenges of history, and his solemnity in facing the very real problems of the moment, he reached out to his opponents&#8217; supporters, saying &#8220;I may not have won your vote tonight, but I hear your voices. I need your help. And I will be your president, too.&#8221; It is clear he seeks to follow his own advice, to keep in mind that &#8220;the American people need help&#8221;, given the current economic crisis. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] In his acceptance speech, while laying out once again his vision of a vibrant middle class as the backbone of American prosperity, his awareness of the challenges of history, and his solemnity in facing the very real problems of the moment, he reached out to his opponents&#8217; supporters, saying &#8220;I may not have won your vote tonight, but I hear your voices. I need your help. And I will be your president, too.&#8221; It is clear he seeks to follow his own advice, to keep in mind that &#8220;the American people need help&#8221;, given the current economic crisis. [&#8230;]</p>
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		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2005/11/22/725/economy-of-errors-how-abundance-may-bring-scarcity/#comment-564</link>
		<dc:creator>How a Generative Economic Strategy Trumps &#8216;Trickle-down&#8217; &#124; The Hot Spring.com</dc:creator>
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		<description>[...] market policy could not have a constricting effect on capital. We now see that abundance can produce economic pathologies that lead to widespread scarcity, and prolonged [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] market policy could not have a constricting effect on capital. We now see that abundance can produce economic pathologies that lead to widespread scarcity, and prolonged [&#8230;]</p>
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		<dc:creator>US Election On Best Political Blogs &#187; Blog Archive &#187; A Long Time Coming, a Victory for Us All</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 03:42:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] A Long Time Coming, a Victory for Us All I have long felt, as so many Americans do, a profound emotional attachment to the ideals we always speak of when we talk about our founding revolution, our enlightened democracy, our progress toward a freer and more just world. And I have always aspired to see those ideals put on display, not just by an historic moment, but by the collective awareness of millions of impassioned American citizens. This moment in history is a sea change in our collective mindset, and a victory for all Americans. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] A Long Time Coming, a Victory for Us All I have long felt, as so many Americans do, a profound emotional attachment to the ideals we always speak of when we talk about our founding revolution, our enlightened democracy, our progress toward a freer and more just world. And I have always aspired to see those ideals put on display, not just by an historic moment, but by the collective awareness of millions of impassioned American citizens. This moment in history is a sea change in our collective mindset, and a victory for all Americans. [&#8230;]</p>
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		<dc:creator>Obama Lays Groundwork for Pragmatist Revolution &#124; CafeSentido.com</dc:creator>
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		<description>[...] “Yes We Can”: Obama Victory Speech After Iowa Caucuses (Video + Transcript) “Yes We Can”: Obama Victory Speech After Iowa Caucuses (Video + Transcript) Historical Transcripts, Politics-US, Video, Vote 2008 :: Comments (1) 5 November 2008 :: staff Delivered 3 January 2008 They said this day would never come. They said our sights were set too high. They said this country was too divided; too disillusioned to ever come together around a common purpose. But on this January night – at this defining moment in history – you have done what the cynics said we couldn’t do [...]</description>
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