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	<title>Cracked Window &#187; McCain</title>
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		<title>Signs of the Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 04:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Portland]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m waiting for numbers. As in how my Portland precinct voted in the presidential election. Only county-by-county totals are available, though I know Barack Obama&#8217;s tally will be staggering. During the campaign, I saw only one John McCain sign in the neighborhood, and it was homemade. Obama signs, including this one in my yard, spread [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Better Than Lipstick on a Pig</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 06:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[News judgment is a fickle subjective beast. I spent most of my adult years exercising it, for better or worse. Now I spend free moments judging others&#8217; judgment, a cynical hobby for someone obsessed with national politics the last several years. During this time I&#8217;ve become an avid blog reader, while increasing my news consumption [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Angry Dude</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Observed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cuban Missile Crisis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m glad the presidential debates have ended. Too much anxiety watching them, though they served their purpose in educating people about both candidates. After the second debate, I read that eighty-six percent of Fox News viewers believed John McCain had won. That statistic may have been the second-most revealing element of the entire campaign. Objectively [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Hiding in Plain Sight&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://michaelbales.com/hiding-in-plain-sight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:03:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After closely following the mainstream mediaâ€™s superficial coverage of the presidential campaign, Iâ€™m not surprised that much in Rolling Stoneâ€™sÂ damning new portrayal of John McCainâ€™s life and career isnâ€™t widely known. The piece feels like a hatchet job but only because the sheer volume of negative information is so shocking. Iâ€™ve read some of it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>False facade of words</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Outrages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[McCain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Reading for me is breathing. A good story, fiction or non-fiction, is among lifeâ€™s wonders. I like fiction because it opens another world and allows me to inhabit it. I like non-fiction because if well done, it illuminates truths otherwise beyond my reach. All this brings me to Sarah Palin. The story she told at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McCain&#8217;s gift</title>
		<link>http://michaelbales.com/mccains-gift/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arugula]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[elitist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Edwards]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[John McCain&#8217;s inability to remember how many houses he owns is a gaffe that will prove more damaging than John Edwards getting a $400 haircut. Count on it. Especially because McCain, after consulting with his staff, said the number is at &#8220;at least four&#8221; when in fact it may be ten or more. The Jed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Behind McCain&#8217;s mask</title>
		<link>http://michaelbales.com/behind-mccains-mask/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Outrages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cheney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karl Rove]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the 21st century, nations donâ€™t invade other nations. So proclaims John McCain. His short-term memory loss is, well, disturbing. Maybe Iraq doesn&#8217;t count. More disturbing are his efforts to interject himself into an international crisis for political gain. But then again, one of his top foreign policy advisers, Randy Scheunemann, was until recently a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The surge demystified</title>
		<link>http://michaelbales.com/the-surge-demystified/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[McCain]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.michaelbales.com/?p=297</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Many people want simple answers to complex situations. They don&#8217;t care that the truth is a many layered thing, defying reduction to slogans and sound bites. What&#8217;s happening in Iraq is a crucial example. With that prelude, I recommend two commentaries on the U.S. troop surge, an issue that John McCain muddles and twists for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shame on McCain</title>
		<link>http://michaelbales.com/shame-on-mccain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 04:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Avett Brothers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m at the gym today, listening to the Avett Brothers&#8216; CD Emotionalism as I pant and sweat. CNN is on the TV several feet away. I vow not to read the closed-caption transcription of John McCain&#8217;s speech and look away. But my eyes betray me. McCain excoriates Barack Obama for not supporting the surge and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The real appeasers</title>
		<link>http://michaelbales.com/the-real-appeasers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 05:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[McCain]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.michaelbales.com/?p=67</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes the best insight and analysis of the day&#8217;s news comes from anonymous &#8220;readers&#8221; who, like me, devour our favorite blogs with unbridled fervor. Here&#8217;s a nod to just such a person, who takes on President Bush and John McCain for their attacks today on Barack Obama for his willingness to talk to Iran&#8217;s president. [...]]]></description>
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