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	<title>Cracked Window &#187; Barack Obama</title>
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		<title>Death of Rational Thinking</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;When do we start a serious dialogue about the Birther movement being a proxy for racism that is unacceptable to articulate in more direct terms?&#8221; So asks Glen Thrush at Politico about a new poll on whether President Barack Obama is a U.S. citizen. The poll shows 58 percent of Republicans believe Obama isn&#8217;t a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finally, a Leader</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t agree with everything President Obama does or doesn&#8217;t do. But too many people miss his essential, rare quality: he is a real leader, a leader unafraid to take on difficult and complex problems by confronting them with blunt yet uplifting language, language that holds up a mirror, a mirror reflecting truth. From his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama and Torture</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:03:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Atticus]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A sometimes irrationally exuberant supporter of Barack Obama, I&#8217;m puzzled and dismayed at his administration&#8217;s failure to address the torture scandal. Repudiating torture isn&#8217;t enough. Finding the truth and punishing lawbreakers are only way to right terrible wrongs. The most lucid assessment of the administration&#8217;s failure comes via the always-trenchant Scott Horton. He accuses the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Takeover</title>
		<link>http://michaelbales.com/the-great-takeover/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 04:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matt Taibbi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rolling Stone]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Has Matt Taibbi written the definitive account of what's really happened to the economy and why ]]></description>
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		<title>Media Bashathon</title>
		<link>http://michaelbales.com/media-bashathon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Atticus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I usually wield no club in the intensifying mainstream media bashathon. But Todd Gitlin, whose journalism bona fides make his views worth a read, rightly hammers Big-Time Reporters&#8217; coverage of President Obama&#8217;s press conference last night. Petulance born of arrogance is especially repugnant when it leads to stories focusing on style at the expense of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Panhandlers for Obama</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 04:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Observed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Portland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay Talese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[panhandlers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Long before The Sopranos, I learned about real-life Mafia from Gay Talese in his stunning 1971 book Honor Thy Father. So his recent byline in the New York Times&#8216; City Room blog caught my eye. Talese recounts helping panhandlers improve their income by composing better-worded signs that invoke President Obama&#8217;s name. Word gets around. Tonight, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grading Presidential Language</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 04:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flesch-Kincaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft Word]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is akin to shooting fish in a barrel, I suppose. But if you treasure words and how they&#8217;re put together, you&#8217;ll enjoy Mark Nickolas&#8217; simple but clever idea: use Microsoft Word&#8217;s readability tool to compare the language Barack Obama used Monday answering questions at his first presidential press conference versus that of George W. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Things Right</title>
		<link>http://michaelbales.com/making-things-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civil rights movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elwin Wilson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. John Lewis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A story of redemption and grace starts my morning: 48 years after beating a prominent member of the Civil Rights Movement, a former Ku Klux Klan member apologizes in person with a handshake and hug. &#8220;I tried to block it out of my mind. It kept coming back,&#8221; says Elwin Wilson, who attacked John Lewis, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trust in Obama</title>
		<link>http://michaelbales.com/trust-in-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 06:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Reich]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How many people are paying attention to President Obama now that the hoopla over his election and inauguration has died down? Not enough. Listen to this video clip (requires a scroll down) of what he said today about our stricken economy. Better yet, read the transcript of his speech after the clip. He understands what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GOP Busted</title>
		<link>http://michaelbales.com/gop-busted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:36:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gallup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This homemade Obama sign in a yard not far from my house seems more appropriate now than during the campaign. Without the new president&#8217;s leadership, the economy would indeed end up busted. Like anyone, I don&#8217;t like the prospect of Himalaya-like deficits. But nearly every economist whom I&#8217;ve seen quoted says the only way to [...]]]></description>
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