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            <title><![CDATA[100 Days Report Card]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[How's Obama doing so far? The Daily Beast's all-star team of analysts, from Christopher Buckley to Paul Begala, Sean Wilentz to Rep. Peter King, weigh in.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's Big Night]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Watch five buzzed-about moments from last night's press conference, where topics like swine flu and economics took a second seat to the weirdest presidential question ever.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Behind Obama's 100-Day PR Strategy]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Could this be a "mission accomplished" moment for the new White House? Richard Wolffe on how David Axelrod and other top aides decided to mark the occasion.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's Bipartisan Triumphs]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Contrary to conventional wisdom, says former Clinton budget advisor Matt Miller, Obama has reached across the aisle in his first 100 days. He's advancing GOP health, energy, and education goals-so why aren't the Republicans supporting them?]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's $100 Million Question]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Sure his ratings are still through the roof. But if he can't get his own cabinet to go along with his latest budget proposal, he will go down as just another tax-and-spend liberal.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Record Number of Czars!]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The bailout czar? The God czar? As President Obama appoints enough czars to impress a Russian nobleman, The Daily Beast has the goods on who they are and how they'll steer policy.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's Frenemies]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As debate erupts on the Web over Obama's visit with Chavez-was it an embrace or a blowoff?-Matthew Yglesias says that everyone's missing the point: The more photo ops with our "enemies," the better.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[100 Days of Panic]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The arrival of swine flu at Obama's 100-day mark signals the challenges that will define his presidency. From financial panic to Islamic fundamentalism, a new wave of dangers is sweeping the planet.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sarandon and Robbins Split]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Sarandon won an Oscar for Best Actress for her role as Sister Helen Prejean in Dead Man Walking in 1996; Robbins shows off his Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Mystic River in 2004. ]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:44:29 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's 7 Wacky Global Warming Fixes]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Our current electrical grid is outdated and inefficient, and a big chunk of the stimulus-about $4.5 billion-is devoted to modernization. For example, the Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. received a $200 million stimulus grant to install smart meters in...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:47:09 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Week in Viral Videos]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[You'd think the telephone would make having affairs easier, right? Back in the nineteenth century, if you needed to tell your mistress to hide out, you had to write her an entire letter and send it via pony express. Now, you just need to press a few...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:57:50 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Embarrassing Moments 2009]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[There's a lesson here: Loyal employees will cheerily accept being thrown under the bus-but only up to a point. After John Edwards finally admitted that he'd cheated on his wife with former campaign videographer Rielle Hunter, he still denied he was the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[White House State Dinner]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama are seen before they welcome India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his wife Gursharan Kaur to the State Dinner at the North Portico of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009. ]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama in Asia ]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama tours the Great Wall in Badaling, China, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Obamas' More Perfect Union]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Barack Obama and his bride, Michelle Robinson, on their wedding day in October 1992 in Chicago.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Distant Celebrity Relatives]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[His election may spell an end to health-care reform, but maybe now Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown will be forgiven by President Obama-it was just discovered the politicians are 10th cousins. Both of their mothers descended from Richard Singletary of...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Week in Culture]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This weekend, one of the year's most talked about indie films hits theaters. An Education, written by Nick Hornby and adapted from a memoir by British journalist Lynn Barber, stars the charming and talented Carey Mulligan as a Hepburn-esque 16-year-old...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Earthquake Destruction]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A man runs near a burning house after a powerful earthquake hit Padang, Indonesia.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Madeleine Albright: Read My Pins]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA["Naturally, not every diplomatic encounter demands a sunny attitude. If I wanted to deliver a sharp message, I often wore a bee. Muhammad Ali used to boast that he would 'float like a butterfly, sting like a bee'; my message was that America would try...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Photos from the G-20 and U.N.]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama welcome France's President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni as they arrive for the G-20 summit dinner in Pittsburgh, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama: The Musical]]></title>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:34:13 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[10 Weirdest News Videos of the Week]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In a month filled with town hall disruptions, this one is easily our favorite:  Barney Frank taking down a woman who compared Obama to Hitler.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:12:11 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Hawaii at 5-0]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[On August 21, 1959, President Dwight Eisenhower welcomed Hawaii to the United States with a brief statehood ceremony in Washington. "We know she is ready to do her part and make this Union a stronger nation than it was before," the president said,...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama-Inspired Fashion]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A model wears a creation by American fashion designers Kate and Laura Mulleavy to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Sonia Rykiel House during the Spring-Summer 2009 Ready-to-Wear collection presented in Paris last year.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[13 Must-Watch Videos of the Week]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, Chris Matthews confronted William Kostric, the protester who brought a loaded gun to Obama's town-hall meeting. When Matthews asked Kostric why in the world anyone would try to bring a loaded gun to see the president, Kostric replied, "Who...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Happy Birthday, Mr. President!]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In May 2008, the then-senator shares a moment with wife Michelle on the campaign trail at a Hamilton County family picnic in Noblesville, Indiana. ]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Presidential First Pitches]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[President Obama threw out the first pitch at the MLB All-Star baseball game in St. Louis on July 14, 2009. He just barely reached his goal of getting it over the plate thanks to a helping hand from Albert Pujols, who moved up to catch the ball when it...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Michelle Obama in Ghana]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama tour the La General Hospital in Accra on July 11, 2009. The visit marks Obama's first to sub-Saharan Africa as president. Huge crowds lined the streets of Accra hoping to catch a glimpse of the first...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:36:49 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The NAACP at 100]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[NAACP co-founder W.E.B. Du Bois and other members at the 20th-annual convention in 1929. ]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[G8: The Movie]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's Trip to Russia]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev talk as they walk in Moscow's Kremlin on July 7, 2009.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama & Daughters ]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Obama and his daughters enjoy the Iowa State Fair on August 16, 2007, in Des Moines. The girls are fans of Hannah Montana and Beyonce, but think anything to do with Britney Spears and Paris Hilton is "yuck," Obama told a celebrity magazine. ]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:38:09 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[What's in the Fabloids]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[The First 100 Days of PDA]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The president and first lady share a kiss on the cheek on stage at Hradcany Square in Prague on April 5. ]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[NATO summit spouses pose for a group photo at the Kurhaus in Baden-Baden, Germany on Friday April 3, 2009. ]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Celeb Graduates]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In an interview with Fox News Sunday, former Governor Sarah Palin revealed that she will consider running for president in 2012 if she believes it is "the right thing to do for our country and the Palin family." She also said in her first Sunday show...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Banks Must Pay for Financial Crisis]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Leaders at this week's G7 meeting have agreed that banks must shoulder some of the cost of the financial crisis, but not on a method for enforcing this policy, an anonymous German official told Reuters. "There is a consensus that banks themselves have...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Paulson on McCain's Crazy Gambit]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson recounts the high-pressure days in September 2008 when the entire financial system teetered on the edge of collapse in his new memoir, On the Brink, excerpted in The Wall Street Journal. Paulson recalls making the case...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama Calls for Health-Care Vote]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[President Obama is ready to move forward with health-care legislation, calling Thursday for talks and a resolution with Republicans so the bill can move to Congress. His request comes on the heels of Democrats losing their supermajority when Scott...]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[President Obama is sticking it to China: He will meet with the Dalai Lama at the White House this month. The move is sure to anger China, which warned Obama against allowing such a visit earlier this week. The White House did not specify dates, though...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Scott Brown to Be Sworn In Today]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Massachusetts Senator-elect Scott Brown will be sworn in as the successor to Ted Kennedy as early as Thursday at 5 p.m., a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said. Brown's attorney had written Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, urging...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[White House Cuts Charity Tax Deduction]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Giving to others could become an even more thankless task with the Obama administration's proposal to reduce tax deductions on charitable donations. According to the 2011 fiscal budget, the White House expects that cutting write-offs for those...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama: 'Finish the Job']]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Can President Obama nudge Congress over the finish line on health care? "Finish the job," he implored Democratic senators at a meeting on Wednesday.&nbsp;"So many of us campaigned on the idea that we were going to change this health-care system," the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[More Questions for Obama]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[President Obama's fascinating televised dialogue with GOP congressional leaders in Baltimore last Friday has garnered legions of fans on both sides of the aisle, fans who are clamoring for more. Politico reports that a range of bipartisan names, from...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama Woos Middle Class with Folksy Drawl]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[President Obama has shifted to a more folksy rhetoric in his bid to win back the hearts of middle-class voters, almost half of whom felt that Obama didn't understand their problems at the beginning of this week. Despite coming from a middle-class...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Kirk, Giannoulias Win Ill. Senate Primaries]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Representative Mark Kirk has won the GOP nomination for the senate seat once held by Barack Obama. Kirk trounced the competition, winning 57 percent. The closest challenger, Patrick Hughes took in just 19 percent; Hughes had tried to build on ties to...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Illinois' Unpredictable Primaries]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A crowded ballot is set for Tuesday's gubernatorial election in Illinois, a state that hasn't been able to stay out of the news-and not for the right reasons. Incumbent Pat Quinn is facing a tough slew of competitors one year after replacing Rod...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[New Small Business Lending Program]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[President Obama debuted his $30 billion program to lend money to small businesses with the hopes that it will spur hiring in a prolonged period of high unemployment. The program would take its funds from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) and...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's Man in London]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[After 40 years of working tirelessly for Democrats-and sucking up so much cash for the party he was called "the Hoover"-Louis Susman finally picked a winning presidential candidate: Barack Obama. Susman bundled $247,000 for Obama's 2008 campaign and...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Taxes on Rich to Increase by $1 Trillion]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Taxes on top earners will increase by nearly $1 trillion over the next 10 years, thanks to the Bush tax cuts expiring this year, steeper taxes on capital gains, and limits on deductions. The top two income tax rates-affecting those that take in more...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA['Obama Flew Too Close to the Sun']]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Add one more voice to the chorus of backlash against Barack Obama. In a blistering op-ed for The Wall Street Journal, author and professor at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies Fouad Ajami slams the president's ambitious agenda as a...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama Unveils $3.83 Trillion Budget]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[President Obama sent a $3.83 trillion budget to Congress on Monday-a plan that includes a $100 billion jobs-creation measure, a fee on big banks, a tax hike on energy producers and families that earn more than $250,000, and a record $1.56 trillion...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Plouffe to Raise Cash for Gillibrand]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[President Obama's campaign manager in the 2008 presidential election, David Plouffe, has been tapped to help raise money for New York's Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York. Following Scott Brown's upset win of Ted Kennedy's senate seat, Plouffe was...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[$100M Bonus for Goldman CEO?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs could pay its chief executive Lloyd Blankfein a bonus of up to $100 million, in defiance of President Obama's insistence that banks limit such huge payouts, according to bankers at Davos for the World Economic Forum. "This is Lloyd...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Tightwad Orszag Finds New Role]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Peter Orszag, the White House's budget chief, has spent his career fighting widening budget deficits. Now, the man perhaps better known for his racy love life is learning how to accommodate his values to the Great Recession, where thrift may not be the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[China Hits Back After U.S.-Taiwan Deal]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In response to the new $6 billion arms deal between Taiwan and the U.S., China has suspended military exchanges with the United States, according to The Washington Post. The announcement came along with a statement from the Chinese Defense Ministry...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Rahm: Delay Health Care]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Rahm Emanuel's announcement in The New York Times that congressional Democrats should drop health-care reform to fourth on their list of priorities has some bloggers clucking-and others calling for his scalp. Ezra Klein writes, "The longer this takes,...]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[President Obama doesn't always play nice: On Friday, he tore into House Republicans at a conference in Baltimore, saying that they've portrayed health-care reform as a "Bolshevik plot." "What happens is that you guys don't have a lot of room to...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Only Ace Tuskegee Airman Dies]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The world lost a black pioneer on Wednesday, when retired Air Force Lt. Colonel Lee A. Archer, the only black ace pilot, died at age 90. Archer fought in World War II in the Tuskegee Airmen, America's first black fighter pilot group, and the Air Force...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's Iran Reality Check]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's plans to increase his country's uranium enrichment to near weapons grade could be a wakeup call for President Obama. Michael Adler on what the Iranian president's mixed signals mean for Obama's diplomatic hopes.
Upping the ante...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Michael Adler]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:59:42 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The 'Birthers' Began on the Left]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Investigating the roots of the Obama birthplace conspiracy theory, John Avlon-author of Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe Is Hijacking America, available now on Beast Books-uncovers the first Birther and finds she's a Hillary Clinton supporter also...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[John Avlon]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:32:45 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Politicians Need Privacy, Too]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Is the public better off knowing all the tawdry details in tell-alls like Jenny Sanford's memoir and Game Change? Meghan McCain on political oversharing.
Over the years I've been accused of oversharing. Some people like this aspect of my personality...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Meghan McCain]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:04:58 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Undercover Boss' Creepy Politics]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The new touchy-feely CBS reality show, on which top corporate managers experience the lowest rungs of their companies, is paternalistic and Orwellian-a fantasy for the Obama age.
At first glance, CBS' fully hyped new reality show, Undercover Boss,...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Thaddeus Russell]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:59:25 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[February 7: 8 Best Moments from Sunday Talk]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Sarah Palin issues a challenge to President Obama, Timothy Geithner takes on Scott Brown and guess which columnist loves demon sheep? That and more in our Sunday roundup. 
Palin Willing to Duke it Out with Obama in 2012
Will Sarah Palin run in 2012?...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:04:06 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ireland's Big Breakthrough]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The agreement to stabilize the Catholic-Protestant government in Northern Ireland will allow the province, finally, to police itself. It also ends America's role as a peace broker in the region. 
British and Irish leaders announced on Friday, with...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Niall Stanage]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:18:03 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Republican Holding Government Hostage]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Senator Richard Shelby's threat to block all of Obama's nominees is unprecedented obstructionism. Benjamin Sarlin on the new poster child of the dysfunctional Congress.
UPDATE: Talking Points Memo notes that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid once...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Benjamin  Sarlin]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:20:25 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's Reckless, Ridiculous China Policy]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ President Obama will meet with the Dalai Lama at the White House this month. The move is sure to anger China, which warned Obama against allowing such a visit earlier this week. John Bolton, Bush's ambassador to the UN, says competing priorities drive...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[John Bolton]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:08:54 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Grill Him Again!]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Obama's no-holds-barred meeting was good for him-and for Republicans. Mark McKinnon on why "question time" should be a regular feature.
In one day last week, Barack Obama did more than he's done in a year to prove he's willing to walk the walk to...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Mark McKinnon]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:01:11 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Rush Limbaugh! The Musical]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Chicago's Second City takes aim at the right's biggest mouth in a new musical comedy. Too bad the show isn't as skillful as Rush.
Back when Saturday Night Live was in the opening innings of its still-floundering attempt to land a funny Barack Obama...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Rick Perlstein]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:42:46 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Desperate for a Taliban Deal?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[President Karzai is calling for reconciliation with the Taliban-but any agreement shouldn't be made on their terms, say Michael O'Hanlon and Hassina Sherjan.
Last week's London conference on Afghanistan was hopeful and encouraging for the continuing...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Michael O'Hanlon]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:03:48 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Republicans' Reagan Amnesia]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ The resurgent GOP wants a Gipper purity test. Does the party faithful know he raised taxes, grew the federal government, and granted amnesty to illegal immigrants?
Republicans love hallowing Ronald Reagan's name. Too bad they know so little about the...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Peter Beinart]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:42:38 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[What's in Obama's Budget?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The headline from the Obama administration's $3.83 trillion budget for 2011, released Monday, is a record deficit of $1.56 trillion-but what else is in the mammoth document? The Daily Beast breaks down 10 key items, and who's losing out. Plus, read...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[ The Daily Beast]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:18:32 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Tony Blair, Outcast]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[While the Iraq War Inquiry failed to hold the former prime minister's feet to the fire-and with the war remaining a hot issue in 2010 election-the British public will not let him off as easy, making Blair a stranger in his own land, perhaps for the...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Andrew Neil]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:53:45 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[January 31: 7 Best Moments from Sunday Talk]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Scott Brown justifies his nude centerfold to Barbara Walters, Roger Ailes defends Fox News, and Robert Gibbs talks tough on executing terrorists. That and more in our Sunday roundup.
Scott Brown to Barbara Walters: Want Me to Sign My Nudie Pic?
Some...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[The Daily Beast Video]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:53:01 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Note to Alito: Obama Was Right]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  Justice Samuel Alito should not have gotten his robe in a bunch during Obama's State of the Union. Paul Campos on why justices deserve just as much respect as politicians.
Quite a few people seem upset about President Obama's remarks directed toward...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Paul Campos]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:43:09 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Rediscovery of Themes]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In his confident, sprawling State of the Union speech, the president refocused on issues from the '08 campaign-highlighting a return to fiscal responsibility and offering policy outreaches to both left and right.
It was a Clintonian speech-and I mean...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[John Avlon]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:21:21 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama Does It Again]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Backed into a corner, the president used a speech to rally despairing supporters and put jeering opponents to shame.
It's amazing that he can still pull it off. Whenever Obama seems to be in peril, whenever his supporters are panicked and despondent...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Michelle Goldberg]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:17:56 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Saving the Sandwich Generation]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[President Obama has promised to support adults caring for elderly parents while scraping to send their own kids to college. But is his proposal strong enough? 
Suddenly, President Obama has discovered the existence of the Sandwich Generation! In the...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Gail Sheehy]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:16:58 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[One Hell of a Speech]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Obama didn't deliver a speech so much as a symphony, calling for nukes and zapping the Supremes; thanks for the performance, Mr. President.
It is hard, indeed almost impossible, not to like Mr. Obama. In recent weeks, I've tried-tried my best. But...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Christopher  Buckley]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:09:56 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Post-Rhetorical Obama]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Instead of giving ground after a shock defeat in Massachusetts, Obama showed style and candor in his State of the Union speech-even if hectoring the Supreme Court justices was unseemly.
One was tempted to say before the State of the Union address that...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Tunku Varadarajan]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:09:08 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Geithner Bails Himself Out]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Obama's Treasury secretary came under heavy fire on the Hill, brushing off attacks on the AIG rescue and calling for tough new regulation, but Allan Dodds Frank says his testimony may have saved his job. Plus, our Big Fat Story on who's gunning for...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Allan Dodds Frank]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:03:34 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buck Up, Democrats]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  A spate of House retirements in the South is casting a pall over Dems' 2010 chances. But the situation may not be as bad as it looks. Benjamin Sarlin looks at how the races are shaping up.
Retirements are rarely good news for a party's chances in...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Benjamin  Sarlin]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:45:06 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Curious Tale of Obama's Biggest Defender]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Who is Ellie Light? Michael Smerconish on finding the person behind the dozens of letters to the editor across the nation in support of the president-and what Light's tale says about the state of modern journalism.
Ellie Light was the Keyser S&ouml;ze...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Michael Smerconish]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:06:39 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[New Wingnut Target: 'RINO' Scott Brown]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Not a week after Scott Brown's stunning Senate victory, the overheated praise is dissolving into accusations that he's a Republican in Name Only. John Avlon on the out-of-control RINO-hunting impulse. Avlon is the author of Wingnuts: How the Lunatic...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[John Avlon]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:45:55 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[What Obama Should Say]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Ted Sorensen and other former White House speechwriters offer advice on how the State of the Union address can turn the presidency around. 
It's time for President Barack Obama to give the speech of his life-again.
For every season, there is the...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Samuel P. Jacobs]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:13:42 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[New Doubts About Afghanistan]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Talks with the Taliban. Pakistanis in the driver's seat. And no drawdown by July 2011. Leslie H. Gelb on the stunning new statements by McChrystal, Petraeus, and Gates, and what they mean for the future course of the war in Afghanistan.
This week...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Leslie H. Gelb]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:57:52 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[5 Questions for Bill Gates: The Daily Beast Interview]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The world's most generous donor tells The Daily Beast how to really help Haiti. Plus: See our list of Haiti's most effective on-the-ground non-profits, and donate now. 
With the philanthropic sector under intense scrutiny in the wake of Haiti's...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Dana Goldstein]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[5 Questions for Bill Gates: The Full Interview]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ The world's most generous donor tells The Daily Beast how to really help Haiti, which companies are setting a good example in the bonus era, government's role in meeting social needs, what works in public schools-and a revolutionary "scuba rice" that...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Dana Goldstein]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[January 24: Top 8 Moments From Sunday Talk]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Robert Gibbs spins Scott Brown's win in Obama's favor, Mitch McConnell gives Ben Bernanke a thumbs up, and guess who thinks Rahm Emanuel is toast? That and more in our Sunday roundup. 
Robert Gibbs: A Vote for Scott Brown Was Not a Vote Against...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:04:27 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's Iran Reality Check]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's plans to increase his country's uranium enrichment to near weapons grade could be a wakeup call for President Obama. Michael Adler on what the Iranian president's mixed signals mean for Obama's diplomatic hopes.
Upping the ante...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Michael Adler]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:59:42 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The 'Birthers' Began on the Left]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Investigating the roots of the Obama birthplace conspiracy theory, John Avlon-author of Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe Is Hijacking America, available now on Beast Books-uncovers the first Birther and finds she's a Hillary Clinton supporter also...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[John Avlon]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:32:45 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Politicians Need Privacy, Too]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Is the public better off knowing all the tawdry details in tell-alls like Jenny Sanford's memoir and Game Change? Meghan McCain on political oversharing.
Over the years I've been accused of oversharing. Some people like this aspect of my personality...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Meghan McCain]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:04:58 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Undercover Boss' Creepy Politics]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The new touchy-feely CBS reality show, on which top corporate managers experience the lowest rungs of their companies, is paternalistic and Orwellian-a fantasy for the Obama age.
At first glance, CBS' fully hyped new reality show, Undercover Boss,...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Thaddeus Russell]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:59:25 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[February 7: 8 Best Moments from Sunday Talk]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Sarah Palin issues a challenge to President Obama, Timothy Geithner takes on Scott Brown and guess which columnist loves demon sheep? That and more in our Sunday roundup. 
Palin Willing to Duke it Out with Obama in 2012
Will Sarah Palin run in 2012?...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[The Daily Beast Video]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:04:06 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ireland's Big Breakthrough]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The agreement to stabilize the Catholic-Protestant government in Northern Ireland will allow the province, finally, to police itself. It also ends America's role as a peace broker in the region. 
British and Irish leaders announced on Friday, with...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Niall Stanage]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:18:03 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Republican Holding Government Hostage]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Senator Richard Shelby's threat to block all of Obama's nominees is unprecedented obstructionism. Benjamin Sarlin on the new poster child of the dysfunctional Congress.
UPDATE: Talking Points Memo notes that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid once...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Benjamin  Sarlin]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:20:25 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's Reckless, Ridiculous China Policy]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ President Obama will meet with the Dalai Lama at the White House this month. The move is sure to anger China, which warned Obama against allowing such a visit earlier this week. John Bolton, Bush's ambassador to the UN, says competing priorities drive...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[John Bolton]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:08:54 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Grill Him Again!]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Obama's no-holds-barred meeting was good for him-and for Republicans. Mark McKinnon on why "question time" should be a regular feature.
In one day last week, Barack Obama did more than he's done in a year to prove he's willing to walk the walk to...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Mark McKinnon]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:01:11 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Rush Limbaugh! The Musical]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Chicago's Second City takes aim at the right's biggest mouth in a new musical comedy. Too bad the show isn't as skillful as Rush.
Back when Saturday Night Live was in the opening innings of its still-floundering attempt to land a funny Barack Obama...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Rick Perlstein]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:42:46 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Desperate for a Taliban Deal?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[President Karzai is calling for reconciliation with the Taliban-but any agreement shouldn't be made on their terms, say Michael O'Hanlon and Hassina Sherjan.
Last week's London conference on Afghanistan was hopeful and encouraging for the continuing...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Michael O'Hanlon]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:03:48 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Republicans' Reagan Amnesia]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ The resurgent GOP wants a Gipper purity test. Does the party faithful know he raised taxes, grew the federal government, and granted amnesty to illegal immigrants?
Republicans love hallowing Ronald Reagan's name. Too bad they know so little about the...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Peter Beinart]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:42:38 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[What's in Obama's Budget?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The headline from the Obama administration's $3.83 trillion budget for 2011, released Monday, is a record deficit of $1.56 trillion-but what else is in the mammoth document? The Daily Beast breaks down 10 key items, and who's losing out. Plus, read...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[ The Daily Beast]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:18:32 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Tony Blair, Outcast]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[While the Iraq War Inquiry failed to hold the former prime minister's feet to the fire-and with the war remaining a hot issue in 2010 election-the British public will not let him off as easy, making Blair a stranger in his own land, perhaps for the...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Andrew Neil]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:53:45 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[January 31: 7 Best Moments from Sunday Talk]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Scott Brown justifies his nude centerfold to Barbara Walters, Roger Ailes defends Fox News, and Robert Gibbs talks tough on executing terrorists. That and more in our Sunday roundup.
Scott Brown to Barbara Walters: Want Me to Sign My Nudie Pic?
Some...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[The Daily Beast Video]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:53:01 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Note to Alito: Obama Was Right]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  Justice Samuel Alito should not have gotten his robe in a bunch during Obama's State of the Union. Paul Campos on why justices deserve just as much respect as politicians.
Quite a few people seem upset about President Obama's remarks directed toward...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Paul Campos]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:43:09 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Rediscovery of Themes]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In his confident, sprawling State of the Union speech, the president refocused on issues from the '08 campaign-highlighting a return to fiscal responsibility and offering policy outreaches to both left and right.
It was a Clintonian speech-and I mean...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[John Avlon]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:21:21 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama Does It Again]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Backed into a corner, the president used a speech to rally despairing supporters and put jeering opponents to shame.
It's amazing that he can still pull it off. Whenever Obama seems to be in peril, whenever his supporters are panicked and despondent...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Michelle Goldberg]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:17:56 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Saving the Sandwich Generation]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[President Obama has promised to support adults caring for elderly parents while scraping to send their own kids to college. But is his proposal strong enough? 
Suddenly, President Obama has discovered the existence of the Sandwich Generation! In the...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Gail Sheehy]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:16:58 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[One Hell of a Speech]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Obama didn't deliver a speech so much as a symphony, calling for nukes and zapping the Supremes; thanks for the performance, Mr. President.
It is hard, indeed almost impossible, not to like Mr. Obama. In recent weeks, I've tried-tried my best. But...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Christopher  Buckley]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:09:56 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Post-Rhetorical Obama]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Instead of giving ground after a shock defeat in Massachusetts, Obama showed style and candor in his State of the Union speech-even if hectoring the Supreme Court justices was unseemly.
One was tempted to say before the State of the Union address that...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Tunku Varadarajan]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:09:08 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Geithner Bails Himself Out]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Obama's Treasury secretary came under heavy fire on the Hill, brushing off attacks on the AIG rescue and calling for tough new regulation, but Allan Dodds Frank says his testimony may have saved his job. Plus, our Big Fat Story on who's gunning for...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Allan Dodds Frank]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:03:34 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buck Up, Democrats]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  A spate of House retirements in the South is casting a pall over Dems' 2010 chances. But the situation may not be as bad as it looks. Benjamin Sarlin looks at how the races are shaping up.
Retirements are rarely good news for a party's chances in...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Benjamin  Sarlin]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:45:06 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Curious Tale of Obama's Biggest Defender]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Who is Ellie Light? Michael Smerconish on finding the person behind the dozens of letters to the editor across the nation in support of the president-and what Light's tale says about the state of modern journalism.
Ellie Light was the Keyser S&ouml;ze...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Michael Smerconish]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:06:39 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[New Wingnut Target: 'RINO' Scott Brown]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Not a week after Scott Brown's stunning Senate victory, the overheated praise is dissolving into accusations that he's a Republican in Name Only. John Avlon on the out-of-control RINO-hunting impulse. Avlon is the author of Wingnuts: How the Lunatic...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[John Avlon]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:45:55 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[What Obama Should Say]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Ted Sorensen and other former White House speechwriters offer advice on how the State of the Union address can turn the presidency around. 
It's time for President Barack Obama to give the speech of his life-again.
For every season, there is the...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Samuel P. Jacobs]]></author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Talks with the Taliban. Pakistanis in the driver's seat. And no drawdown by July 2011. Leslie H. Gelb on the stunning new statements by McChrystal, Petraeus, and Gates, and what they mean for the future course of the war in Afghanistan.
This week...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Leslie H. Gelb]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[5 Questions for Bill Gates: The Daily Beast Interview]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The world's most generous donor tells The Daily Beast how to really help Haiti. Plus: See our list of Haiti's most effective on-the-ground non-profits, and donate now. 
With the philanthropic sector under intense scrutiny in the wake of Haiti's...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Dana Goldstein]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[5 Questions for Bill Gates: The Full Interview]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ The world's most generous donor tells The Daily Beast how to really help Haiti, which companies are setting a good example in the bonus era, government's role in meeting social needs, what works in public schools-and a revolutionary "scuba rice" that...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Dana Goldstein]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:01:47 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[January 24: Top 8 Moments From Sunday Talk]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Robert Gibbs spins Scott Brown's win in Obama's favor, Mitch McConnell gives Ben Bernanke a thumbs up, and guess who thinks Rahm Emanuel is toast? That and more in our Sunday roundup. 
Robert Gibbs: A Vote for Scott Brown Was Not a Vote Against...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[The Daily Beast Video]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:04:27 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama Ready to Start Over?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Obama says he's ready to "start from scratch" on health-care reform-but not in the way the GOP wants. Appearing at a surprise press briefing on Tuesday, the president hammered home that bipartisanship means compromise, not capitulation.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:24:58 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Michelle: End Childhood Obesity]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Which is more difficult: Eliminating childhood obesity, or improving the tone in American politics? Well, the Obamas want to do both, as Michelle revealed during a Tuesday interview on Good Morning America. Good luck, Michelle-you'll need it.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:01:19 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Rush to Obama: Debate Me!]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Obama may have proposed a televised debate with Republicans on health-care reform, but Rush Limbaugh doesn't think this is enough. He says there's only one way the president can advance the bill: appear on his show.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:03:35 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Tancredo Blasts Obama Voters]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The National Tea Party Convention kicked off this week with some strong words from Tom Tancredo about the president and his supporters. In his speech, he says Obama was only elected because "we do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:03:43 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama Cracks Wise over Citizenship]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[How do you liven up a National Prayer Breakfast? Crack a little joke! Obama took a swipe at the birther brigade on Thursday morning, encouraging people to question his policies-not the validity of his birth certificate. C-SPAN]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:20:11 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama to Dems: Finish the Job]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Thought Obama was done with health-care reform? Think again. Speaking to Senate Democrats, the president reiterated his call to "finish the job" on health care and financial regulatory reform, encouraging Senators to remember why they got into public...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:11:18 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Michelle on Health Care, Gray Hair]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Matt Lauer grilled Michelle Obama on two very important issues during Wednesday's Today interview: Democrats' fight for health-care reform, and her husband's graying hair. She says one is a battle worth fighting, and the other is basically...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:55:58 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama Defends Transparency Record]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A top question submitted to the YouTube Q&A Monday asked why the health-reform process was not as transparent as promised. Obama rejected the notion and made yet another promise: No surprises and no secrets in the last "five yards."]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:01:57 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[YouTube Questions Obama Wasn't Asked]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[What would happen if aliens destroyed the White House? Inquiring young minds like these two want to know. NY Mag has weeded through the thousands of questions submitted to Obama's YouTube Q&A to find five oddballs.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:58:11 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Blast the Supreme Court? Sure]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[There's been some discussion about whether it was appropriate for President Obama to have criticized the Supreme Court during his State of the Union address. Can you guess how David Axelrod feels about it? MSNBC]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:10:43 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[GOP Praises Obama After Fiery Q&A]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Obama's visit into the lions' den Friday certainly had its heated moments, but GOP leaders had plenty of nice things to say about the president following the event. This, however, didn't stop Eric Cantor from turning the criticism onto a new set of...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:02:54 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama Blasts GOP Health-Care Rhetoric]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Obama refused to be a punching bag for House Republicans when he answered questions during their caucus meeting in Baltimore, admonishing GOP representatives for their overheated rhetoric on health-care reform-which he said made people think "it was a...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:14:29 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Brown Challenges Obama... in B-Ball]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Sen. Scott Brown stopped by The Jay Leno Show last night via satellite to take some hard-hitting questions, like "Could you beat the president one on one in basketball?" Luckily, Jay was a friendly face: Turns out the Lenos and the Browns go way back.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:56:38 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Guess Who Didn't Like Obama's SOTU]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[No big surprise: Rush Limbaugh was not pleased with Obama's State of the Union address. Here's a "heart-to-heart" with the president that he read on his show Thursday, which opens with an odd request: "Let me be the father that you never had." Huh?]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:05:34 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Alito's 'You Lie' Moment]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Obama gave his first official State of the Union address to Congress and the most-talked about audience member was... Samuel Alito? The justice appeared to say "not true" after Obama criticized a recent court decision. Watch more key moments from the...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:45:44 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama: Bank Bailout Like a 'Root Canal']]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[There were a number of memorable moments from Obama's State of the Union address-the shout-out to Michelle, the calling out of the Supreme Court-but this one shows the tone he was trying to take throughout. Could the word for it be... populist?]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:25:12 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA['I Forgot He Was Black']]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Well, if Chris Matthews meant this as a compliment, it's a long way from saying the president makes him feel a thrill go up his leg. Here's the MSNBC host telling viewers how, while watching Obama, he forgot the president was black-"for an hour."]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:07:59 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Begala: Prez Should "Pop" Boehner]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Paul Begala and Colbert got together on Tuesday to talk about Democrats' next move, and came to the conclusion that prison-style violence might be the only way to advance the President's agenda-even if it means having to touch John Boehner's fake tan.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:54:38 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Jon to Obama: Ditch the 'Prompter!]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Most folks understand the value of a teleprompter when making, say, a State of the Union address-but when addressing a 6th grade classroom? Monday, Jon Stewart shared 'prompter dos and don'ts with President Obama. Clip above; full episode here.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:06:25 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama: I'd Rather Have One Good Term]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Some people may not like it, but Barack Obama isn't backing down on his agenda. In an interview with ABC's World News two days before the State of the Union, he says he doesn't want to remember his presidency as just "nurturing my own popularity." Clip...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:02:23 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Axelrod: No Regrets]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Days before Obama makes his State of the Union address, and a year after being sworn into office, everyone's focusing on what the President did or didn't do. On This Week, adviser David Axelrod says if he could go back in time, he wouldn't have done...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:45:46 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[TPM Slams Obama on Reform Promises]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[President Obama got a little heat from Talking Points Memo Friday, in this mash-up highlighting some of his energetic speeches on passing health reform. Get it done in 2009! Er, 2010?]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 23 Jan 2010 10:16:42 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama: D.C. Can Drive You Crazy!]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Speaking at a town hall at Lorain County Community College in Ohio, President Obama let out a little of his frustration with politicians in D.C. There are "nice people in Washington," he said, "but they can drive you crazy." Time for another vacation? CNN]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:43:00 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Gingrich: Brown Will Bring Down the Dems]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/video/item/newt-gingrich-on-scott-brown/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[As questions swirl about the impact of Scott Brown's election, at least one Republican views it as the beginning of the end for Democrats. Speaking before-the-fact, Gingrich predicted: A Brown victory could be "psychologically, as powerful as the...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:21:52 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama Heckled at Coakley Rally]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Things don't appear to be getting any easier for Democrats in the campaign for Ted Kennedy's Massachusetts Senate seat. At a rally Sunday for Martha Coakley, President Obama was repeatedly interrupted by hecklers. Fox News]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:47:42 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama Pledges Historic Relief Effort]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[After promising 100 million dollars in aid to Haiti Thursday morning, President Obama addressed the people of the devastated nation directly: This "new horror must cause some to look up and ask, 'Have we somehow been forsaken?'" he said. "You will not...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:22:09 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama Defends Reid]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[President Obama dusted off Harry Reid's much-reported controversial remarks Monday, saying that the senator has always been on the "right side of history" on race issues. The bigger problem, he says, is the ongoing obsession with this story. CNN]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:01:39 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Blago Repeatedly Admits He is Stupid]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[It's not only Harry Reid and Michael Steele apologizing for racially insensitive remarks this week. Rod Blagojevich confirmed today that he is not in fact blacker than Barack Obama, as he initially declared in the latest issue of Esquire magazine. WGNTV]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:04:30 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[NAACP Absolves Reid]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Racist or not? Reactions to Majority Leader Harry Reid's "Negro dialect" have been mixed, but today we heard from Hilary Shelton, vice president of the NAACP, who said on Fox News that he deems the remarks "awkward" but not necessarily  "offensive."]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[This is just weird. A new online ad released by Liz Cheney's Keep America Safe organization parodies "24" and takes a swipe at President Obama's response to the Christmas Day terror attempt. And these are the folks who hate Michael Moore?]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The five people-besides the president-who are key to Wednesday's big-time address.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Nail-Biter in Massachusetts]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Tuesday's election for Ted Kennedy's seat could alter the fate of the health-care bill. Can Obama save Martha Coakley? And what can Dems do if she loses? A guide to the Senate nail-biter.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Behind Wall Street's Bonus Boom]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As 2009's bonus season arrives, The Daily Beast examines how this year's payouts got so big, the political fallout-and why huge bonuses may not be a bad thing after all.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Will the Bubble Pop Again in 2010?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The stock market made a historic recovery in the past six months, but can it keep it up for the new year? Some analysts say it's unsustainable, as low interest rates can only do so much, and there are signs that another bubble may be right around the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Will We Rebound in 2010?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[2009 brought a slow, painful recovery from the economic collapse of 2008. Will things pick up in 2010, or is today the calm before a second storm? Six takes on what the future holds.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Attack on Christmas]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A Nigerian man with possible al Qaeda ties is accused of igniting an explosive device on a jetliner to Detroit on Christmas Day. The Daily Beast on the man accused of the crime, the heroic passengers who stopped him, and the spate of terror attacks on...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Health-Care End Game]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As the Senate approaches a tentative Christmas Eve vote on health-care legislation, The Daily Beast looks at the remaining pitfalls and the new battles, as the bill enters its final stages.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama Goes to the Hill]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As the president meets with senators on Sunday, and lead negotiator Max Baucus faces a scandal, here's what has to happen for health care to pass before the new Christmas deadline.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Obamacare Could Still Fail]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Senate on Wednesday put forward its health-care bill. The Daily Beast looks at the six major obstacles to reform.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's Asian Mission]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The president departs for the Far East today. From China's economic might to Japan's atomic legacy to Myanmar's human rights record, the toughest issues he will confront along the way. Plus, Alex Massie on why Obama skipped the Berlin Wall anniversary.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Election Day 2009]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Daily Beast checks out the hot campaigns around the country: the GOP's likely romp in Virginia, a crucial gay-marriage vote in Maine, and an historic moment in Atlanta.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Agony of the Olympics]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Obamas are in Denmark to the nab the Games for Chicago in 2016. The Daily Beast looks at the violent crime, red ink, and-yes-orgies that will inevitably follow.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Climate Wars]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Obama will put the U.S. on a new course toward climate change with a speech to the U.N. today. But with China and Europe already skeptical, is it too little too late?]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:53:57 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[When Politics and Candor Collide]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Obama said it off the record,  but his branding of Kanye West as a "jackass" went public. It wasn't the first time a Washington power player's whisper became an unwelcome soundbyte. 
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            <title><![CDATA[The New Next Supreme Court Justice]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Rumors are swirling that 89-year-old Justice John Paul Stevens may step down next year. The politics this time around will be trickier; no "first Hispanics" or cushion in the polls. The Daily Beast asks Thomas Goldstein, SCOTUSBlog founder, who Obama...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[ Dick Cheney's White House Assault]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[It's an oft-cited tradition that presidents and vice presidents lay off their successors once they've left office. But Dick Cheney is merely the latest in a parade of former White House occupants who have played armchair quarterback on a national scale.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:46:09 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Unraveling the CIA Scandal]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Justice Department will investigate alleged abuses by CIA officers under the Bush administration after newly released reports suggested interrogators threatened prisoners with power drills and mock executions. But will the independent prosecutor...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Liberal Freakout]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[First the centrist wing of Obama's party didn't like his health-care plan-but now, with new concessions to the Blue Dogs, insurers, and other interest groups, liberals claim they're the disenfranchised ones. Is Obama losing his liberal stronghold? The...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 23 Aug 2009 22:53:47 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Oprah's Risky Business]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[With two dead at a frequent Oprah guest's spiritual retreat and another ex-employee filing a lawsuit, The Daily Beast revisits some of the talk show host's questionable moments, from broadcasting shaky medical advice to her KFC coupon debacle.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[GOP Protesters Invade Town Halls]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[How quickly things change: After years of deriding anti-Bush protesters as kooks, enthusiastic conservatives are organizing to block health-care reform. Can they scuttle the White House agenda-or are their raucous gatherings sabotaging their own cause? ]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:57:10 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Conspiracy Boom]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Nearly 58% of the GOP doubts Obama was born in the U.S., but how does that compare to FEMA concentration camps and national bans on eating meat? The Daily Beast presents the kookiest claims in politics.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:47:47 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Real Is Domestic Terror?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The arrest of North Carolina men who allegedly trained with Islamic jihadists raises new questions about home-grown terror. The Daily Beast on how scared you should really be. ]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:58:00 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The White House's Greatest Drinkers]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In sharing a beer with Skip Gates and James Crowley, Obama is joining a long tradition of presidents who indulged in the occasional drink. From FDR mixing martinis with Stalin to Nixon hitting the bottle during a nuclear alert, we offer you the...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:06:20 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Health-Care Debate Gets Nasty]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[So much for bipartisanship: Obama's getting aggressive, Steele is talking smack, and a GOP senator is planning the president's "Waterloo." The latest left and right hooks out of Washington.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:20:37 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The New Democratic Bullies]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[They have a popular president, a party consensus, and, thanks to Al Franken, a filibuster-proof majority-Democrats hold all the cards on health care and they're letting Republicans know it. Can the outgunned GOP fight back against the Democrats' first...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:58:24 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Have We Turned the Corner?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Bank profits are up, job numbers are down, and the market is erratic-is the economy any closer to a rebound? Six smart takes from business leaders and Nobel laureates.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:36:38 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Honduras' Mad, Mad, Mad Coup]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Another story you missed in the Michael Jackson madness? The absurd bloodless coup in Honduras, during which the president was ousted from power in his pajamas. The thickening plot includes threats by Hugo Chavez, condemnation from Barack Obama-and...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:54:44 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Defiant Democrats]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Amid a major push for health care reform, a Mideast peace plan, and the start of recruiting season for the 2010 midterms, attention is turning to a group of Democrats who have bucked the president's agenda. Do these problem Dems threaten to undermine...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:34:28 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Rising Black Political Stars]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[From Newark's Cory Booker to Alabama's Artur Davis, a new generation stands poised to follow in Barack Obama's footsteps. The Daily Beast profiles six up-and-comers who have big elections ahead of them.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:56:02 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bipartisan Presidential Picks]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[While appointing a member of the opposition party to a key post has been a common White House tactic for decades, President Obama has been on a bipartisan spree since taking office-most recently nominating Republican Rep. John McHugh as secretary of...]]></description>
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