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		<title>By: Pangolin-California</title>
		<link>http://worldhaveyoursay.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/talking-points-for-20th-october/#comment-89088</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Pangolin-California]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dan~ Next time you&#039;re at a gas pump dropping $75 into the tank just thank your lucky stars that Ronald Reagan and the Bush family gutted the Carter energy policies that would have kept gas prices down. 

Let&#039;s not mention that those &quot;Islamic Terrorists&quot; were the favorite pets of George H. W. Bush during the Reagan years. Here&#039;s a handy 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.intellnet.org/resources/american_terrorism/ChronologyofTerror.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Chronology of
American State Terrorism&lt;/a&gt; to help you realize that not everyone agrees that the US is the white knight in it&#039;s global meddling. 

I&#039;m not sure why you aren&#039;t blaming the whole terrorist situation of democratic presidents Roosevelt or Kennedy; as long as we are going to go back in years. Personally, I blame all Islamic terrorism on Winston Churchill for flubbing up the division of the former provinces of the Ottoman Empire. At least that has a valid grounding in historical fact.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dan~ Next time you&#8217;re at a gas pump dropping $75 into the tank just thank your lucky stars that Ronald Reagan and the Bush family gutted the Carter energy policies that would have kept gas prices down. </p>
<p>Let&#8217;s not mention that those &#8220;Islamic Terrorists&#8221; were the favorite pets of George H. W. Bush during the Reagan years. Here&#8217;s a handy<br />
<a href="http://www.intellnet.org/resources/american_terrorism/ChronologyofTerror.html" rel="nofollow">Chronology of<br />
American State Terrorism</a> to help you realize that not everyone agrees that the US is the white knight in it&#8217;s global meddling. </p>
<p>I&#8217;m not sure why you aren&#8217;t blaming the whole terrorist situation of democratic presidents Roosevelt or Kennedy; as long as we are going to go back in years. Personally, I blame all Islamic terrorism on Winston Churchill for flubbing up the division of the former provinces of the Ottoman Empire. At least that has a valid grounding in historical fact.</p>
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		<title>By: Dan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[@Pangolin-California   October 20, 2008 at 4:39 pm 
Bush cannot be the most failed Presidency.  That title belongs exclusively to Jimmy Carter, the Father of Modern Day Islamic Terrorism.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Pangolin-California   October 20, 2008 at 4:39 pm<br />
Bush cannot be the most failed Presidency.  That title belongs exclusively to Jimmy Carter, the Father of Modern Day Islamic Terrorism.</p>
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		<title>By: Pangolin-California</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was preparing yet another slam on the conservatives when it occurred to me how pointless that was. The leftover neo-conservatives in the world are fading and in the way. What we really need to spend our time discussing is what &lt;i&gt;new ideas for solutions&lt;/i&gt; are there that haven&#039;t got enough attention.

Delivering newly printed cash by the truckload to the same banks that created the mess isn&#039;t going to do it. Bouncing rocks and people in Afghanistan and Iraq with new and pretty patterns of explosives isn&#039;t cutting it either. 

If the current methods aren&#039;t working choose again. Quit fighting the tide with a net.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was preparing yet another slam on the conservatives when it occurred to me how pointless that was. The leftover neo-conservatives in the world are fading and in the way. What we really need to spend our time discussing is what <i>new ideas for solutions</i> are there that haven&#8217;t got enough attention.</p>
<p>Delivering newly printed cash by the truckload to the same banks that created the mess isn&#8217;t going to do it. Bouncing rocks and people in Afghanistan and Iraq with new and pretty patterns of explosives isn&#8217;t cutting it either. </p>
<p>If the current methods aren&#8217;t working choose again. Quit fighting the tide with a net.</p>
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		<title>By: Anthony</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An SNL skit that shows how the American People really are. It&#039;s funny yet sad at the same time.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/1389/saturday-night-live-dont-buy-stuff

-Anthony, LA, CA]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An SNL skit that shows how the American People really are. It&#8217;s funny yet sad at the same time.</p>
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<p>/saturday-night-live-dont-buy-stuff</p>
<p>-Anthony, LA, CA</p>
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		<title>By: Kelsie in Houston</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kelsie in Houston]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&lt;i&gt;In my opinion, George Bush and John McCain are two very different individuals!&lt;/i&gt;

Very well. In my opinion--and that of millions of Americans and citizens in the world at large--there is insufficient difference to support Mr McCain&#039;s claims of either &quot;maverick-ness&quot; or his role as a &quot;reformer.&quot; We&#039;ll see whose is still standing after the election.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>In my opinion, George Bush and John McCain are two very different individuals!</i></p>
<p>Very well. In my opinion&#8211;and that of millions of Americans and citizens in the world at large&#8211;there is insufficient difference to support Mr McCain&#8217;s claims of either &#8220;maverick-ness&#8221; or his role as a &#8220;reformer.&#8221; We&#8217;ll see whose is still standing after the election.</p>
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		<title>By: Kelsie in Houston</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kelsie in Houston]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:47:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[@Jennifer:
Your excoriation of Mr Obama&#039;s &quot;undercover buddy&quot; betrays a massive amount of paranoia, to say nothing of the fact that your date statistic demonstrates how &lt;i&gt;long&lt;/i&gt; in the past this &quot;relationship&quot; is. The Republican Party--aside from Fox News Channel--has largely begun to abandon this argument for what it is: untenable.

Your note on &quot;DNA&quot; is immaterial: the arguments for the similarities between Mr McCain and Mr Bush are based on their similar ideologies as demonstrated through Mr McCain&#039;s voting records: 90% in favor of Mr Bush&#039;s policies. Your counterargument about Mr Obama being &quot;afraid of the ramifications of actually having an opinion&quot; is farcical: both Mr Obama and Mr McCain alike have their opinions and, in this electoral maelstrom, are &quot;owning up,&quot; so to speak, of having those opinions. 

The Republican Party and its constituency--Republican, right-leaning independent, and whatsoever else--is becoming increasingly desperate, a sign in and of itself of the Republicans&#039; expectations for the election.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Jennifer:<br />
Your excoriation of Mr Obama&#8217;s &#8220;undercover buddy&#8221; betrays a massive amount of paranoia, to say nothing of the fact that your date statistic demonstrates how <i>long</i> in the past this &#8220;relationship&#8221; is. The Republican Party&#8211;aside from Fox News Channel&#8211;has largely begun to abandon this argument for what it is: untenable.</p>
<p>Your note on &#8220;DNA&#8221; is immaterial: the arguments for the similarities between Mr McCain and Mr Bush are based on their similar ideologies as demonstrated through Mr McCain&#8217;s voting records: 90% in favor of Mr Bush&#8217;s policies. Your counterargument about Mr Obama being &#8220;afraid of the ramifications of actually having an opinion&#8221; is farcical: both Mr Obama and Mr McCain alike have their opinions and, in this electoral maelstrom, are &#8220;owning up,&#8221; so to speak, of having those opinions. </p>
<p>The Republican Party and its constituency&#8211;Republican, right-leaning independent, and whatsoever else&#8211;is becoming increasingly desperate, a sign in and of itself of the Republicans&#8217; expectations for the election.</p>
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		<title>By: Pangolin-California</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Pangolin-California]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iraqi Treaty~ This is a contract between the most failed presidency in US history and their quisling meat-puppets in Iraq. It will have no validity fifteen minutes after the last american tank rolls onto the last ship out of Iraq. The american people trust the Bush administration and congress on Iraq not one bit. The disaster is complete. 

In case anybody hasn&#039;t noticed. Osama Bin Laden hasn&#039;t done a tenth of the damage to the US that we have since done to ourselves.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Iraqi Treaty~ This is a contract between the most failed presidency in US history and their quisling meat-puppets in Iraq. It will have no validity fifteen minutes after the last american tank rolls onto the last ship out of Iraq. The american people trust the Bush administration and congress on Iraq not one bit. The disaster is complete. </p>
<p>In case anybody hasn&#8217;t noticed. Osama Bin Laden hasn&#8217;t done a tenth of the damage to the US that we have since done to ourselves.</p>
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		<title>By: Jennifer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Re: Obama&#039;s victim status on Fox news

If someone doesn&#039;t like FoxNews; they could always just watch one of the MANY other channels &quot;palling around with Obama&quot;...hahaha! Really! 20 years ago, 10 years ago, 5 years ago, 1 day ago, we are the friends we keep! Even if Obama supposedly disproved that &quot;rumor&quot; who is to say that they will not reconcile or even that they are not undercover buddies to this day? There are questions there and I think they should be brought up. 

What really ticks me off is that Obama is still saying McCain is like Bush. I think we could, if we so chose, do DNA testing to confirm they are not clones, twins, or even related. They are both Republicans. Did they vote the same at times; sure, but that&#039;s the extent of it. It&#039;s like saying all democrats have the same beliefs? Uh, no. I guess that&#039;s why Obama doesn&#039;t want to put his name on anything? He&#039;s afraid of the ramifications of actually having an opinion?  Don&#039;t say that because things haven&#039;t  been the best for the last few years, that the entire 8 years George Bush was in office have been a nightmare! In my opinion, George Bush and John McCain are two very different individuals!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Re: Obama&#8217;s victim status on Fox news</p>
<p>If someone doesn&#8217;t like FoxNews; they could always just watch one of the MANY other channels &#8220;palling around with Obama&#8221;&#8230;hahaha! Really! 20 years ago, 10 years ago, 5 years ago, 1 day ago, we are the friends we keep! Even if Obama supposedly disproved that &#8220;rumor&#8221; who is to say that they will not reconcile or even that they are not undercover buddies to this day? There are questions there and I think they should be brought up. </p>
<p>What really ticks me off is that Obama is still saying McCain is like Bush. I think we could, if we so chose, do DNA testing to confirm they are not clones, twins, or even related. They are both Republicans. Did they vote the same at times; sure, but that&#8217;s the extent of it. It&#8217;s like saying all democrats have the same beliefs? Uh, no. I guess that&#8217;s why Obama doesn&#8217;t want to put his name on anything? He&#8217;s afraid of the ramifications of actually having an opinion?  Don&#8217;t say that because things haven&#8217;t  been the best for the last few years, that the entire 8 years George Bush was in office have been a nightmare! In my opinion, George Bush and John McCain are two very different individuals!</p>
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		<title>By: Dwight From Cleveland</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dwight From Cleveland]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alright, FOX news has lost it&#039;s humor and now just seems a pathetic version of &quot;affair and unbalanced&quot;

Their abstract view of the truth is anoying.  &quot;we didn&#039;t &lt;i&gt;actually&lt;/i&gt; say Barack was a terrorist.&quot;  We accused im of &quot;palling around&quot; with them and used his middle name wich 75% of americans find odd and only know one other person with that name. Sure.   but they didn&#039;t flat out call hime a terrorist.  so they are speaking the truth.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Alright, FOX news has lost it&#8217;s humor and now just seems a pathetic version of &#8220;affair and unbalanced&#8221;</p>
<p>Their abstract view of the truth is anoying.  &#8220;we didn&#8217;t <i>actually</i> say Barack was a terrorist.&#8221;  We accused im of &#8220;palling around&#8221; with them and used his middle name wich 75% of americans find odd and only know one other person with that name. Sure.   but they didn&#8217;t flat out call hime a terrorist.  so they are speaking the truth.</p>
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		<title>By: Dan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[@Dennis@OCC
Maybe you are on to something.
If the USA completely pulls out of Iraq (Lubna&#039;s greatest wish) and the country descends in to complete chaos and uncontrolled bombings, and we also pull out of Afghanistan allowing the opium production to explode and also understanding that Iran is the largest consumer of Afghan opium we might have a complete resolution of the entire problem.
Sooner or later Iraq will be empty with bodies and rubble everywhere.  Kuwait can take it over and sell Iraqi oil to us at a discount.  
With a steady supply of opium the Iranians will be completely stoned and we will have no worries about any nuclear program.   We can provide fertilizer to Afghanistan to improve the yield of the poppy production thus keeping the Iranian market filled. 
Pakistan is a failed state and sooner or later India will reclaim their property.
Problem solved!!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Dennis@OCC<br />
Maybe you are on to something.<br />
If the USA completely pulls out of Iraq (Lubna&#8217;s greatest wish) and the country descends in to complete chaos and uncontrolled bombings, and we also pull out of Afghanistan allowing the opium production to explode and also understanding that Iran is the largest consumer of Afghan opium we might have a complete resolution of the entire problem.<br />
Sooner or later Iraq will be empty with bodies and rubble everywhere.  Kuwait can take it over and sell Iraqi oil to us at a discount.<br />
With a steady supply of opium the Iranians will be completely stoned and we will have no worries about any nuclear program.   We can provide fertilizer to Afghanistan to improve the yield of the poppy production thus keeping the Iranian market filled.<br />
Pakistan is a failed state and sooner or later India will reclaim their property.<br />
Problem solved!!</p>
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