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	<title>Commentary &#187; Contentions</title>
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		<title>How Quickly They Forget</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/6241</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 22:22:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Rubin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NARAL gave up on Hillary Clinton today and endorsed Barack Obama. It was only a year ago that pro-choice groups were targeting Obama for voting &#8220;present&#8221; on partial-birth abortion measures as a state senator. In fact, in the New Hampshire primary, Clinton used the abortion issue effectively, sending out mailers on these &#8220;present&#8221; votes.
How will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take It Back, Boehner</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/wehner/6251</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 21:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Wehner</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In a press release on May 12, House Republican Leader John Boehner said this:
Israel is a critical American ally and a beacon of democracy in the Middle East, not a &#8216;constant sore&#8217; as Barack Obama claims. Obama&#8217;s latest remark, and his commitment to &#8216;opening a dialogue&#8217; with sponsors of terrorism, echoes past statements by Jimmy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Worry Your Pretty Little Head About a Thing</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/6221</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 21:31:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Rubin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Tip for Barack Obama: don&#8217;t call women &#8220;sweetie.&#8221; Not ever. And especially not when you have to win more than 22% of women voters and overcome a lot of hard feelings among Hillary Clinton&#8217;s most ardent female supporters. Geez. You&#8217;d think the post-racial, post-partisan Agent of Change would be post-chauvinist, too.
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		<title>About That 10 Percent . . .</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/greenwald/6231</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 21:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abe Greenwald</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Cinque Henderson has a piece at the New Republic that&#8217;s well worth a read. Henderson explains why, as a black American, he doesn&#8217;t support Barack Obama for President:
I disliked Obama almost instantly. I never believed the central premises of his autobiography or his campaign. He is fueled by precisely the same brand of personal ambition [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Story Changes</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/6211</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 20:25:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Rubin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[First, the Left blogosphere insisted there was no Jewish problem for Barack Obama. Then the line was that if such a problem existed, it was irrational and based on false internet rumors about Obama&#8217;s secret Muslim past. The latest take? He doesn&#8217;t need the Jewish vote.
This Huffington Post column makes the case, even finding an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Pins, Now Crosses</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/6201</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 19:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Rubin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember all the fuss when Mike Huckabee put out a Christmas ad with a bookshelf in the background that media pundits were sure was a &#8220;cross&#8221;? There were plenty of howls. Well, Barack Obama&#8217;s latest ad, in the the form of direct mail, doesn&#8217;t leave anything to the imagination. The cross stares you right in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mugabe Crosses a Line</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/kirchick/6191</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 19:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Kirchick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As if we needed any more evidence that Robert Mugabe will not leave office without a fight: yesterday, Mugabe&#8217;s security officers harassed a fact-finding group including the American, British and Japanese ambassadors attempting to interview people in hospitals who had been tortured by the Mugabe regime. Read this short account of the bravery of our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smear Redefined</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/greenwald/6181</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 18:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abe Greenwald</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Up until about three weeks ago, the definition of the word smear was a simple affair. As Webster&#8217;s states, there&#8217;s the noun, meaning An attempt to destroy someone&#8217;s reputation and the verb meaning To contaminate the reputation of. But ever since John McCain acknowledged the fact that Hamas&#8217;s political advisor Ahmed Yousuf endorsed Barack Obama, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>They Don&#8217;t Like Him In Florida</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/6111</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 17:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Rubin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This article highlights the problems Barack Obama is having with Jewish voters in Florida and the resulting challenges this will pose for him in this key state. His supporter Rep. Robert Wexler gets blank stares when he tries to convince Jewish voters in Florida that Obama is the best candidate on Israel. One Democratic state [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friedman&#8217;s New Cold War</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/chang/6171</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 17:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon G. Chang</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The next American president will inherit many foreign policy challenges, but surely one of the biggest will be the cold war,&#8221; writes Tom Friedman in this morning&#8217;s New York Times.  &#8220;Yes, the next president is going to be a cold-war president-but this cold war is with Iran.&#8221;
Clearly the Iranians see it as Friedman does.  To [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hamas, Unrepentant</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/pollak/6151</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 16:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noah Pollak</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember, last month, when the credulosphere trembled in excitement at the thought that Hamas had given up its desire to destroy Israel? Khaled Meshaal muttered something about being reconciled to Israel, and the floodgates opened.
Gershom Gorenberg wrote long, breathless articles for the American Prospect and his blog announcing the good tidings, Ezra Klein wrote a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Filling Cracks</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/greenwald/6161</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 16:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abe Greenwald</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[CNN is reporting that 2,000 Chinese troops are rushing to plug &#8220;extremely dangerous&#8221; cracks in the Zipingku Dam, which stands about three miles upriver from the earthquake-ravaged Dujiangyan City. The endangered population of Dujiangyan  City stands at about 630,000. If there&#8217;s a serious dam accident, the resulting devastation could  immediately rival that of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Independents</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/6101</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 15:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Rubin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[John McCain has been focusing on independent voters of late with his global warming message and attempts to highlight differences with George W. Bush on the economy (by backing a home mortgage bailout) and foreign policy (by stressing multilateralism). Both he and Barack Obama will have their challenges in making the case with independents.
I am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Real Alternative Models of Development</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/boot/6141</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 14:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max Boot</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In the backlash against the Bush administration&#8217;s (first-term) pro-democracy agenda, a lot of critics have been singing the praises of &#8220;alternative&#8221; models of development. Exhibits A and B are usually Russia and China, which have been prospering of late without such pesky inconveniences as free elections and independent judges.
But we tend to forget two other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Serious Is She?</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/6091</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 14:39:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Rubin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton said last night that &#8220;this race isn&#8217;t over.&#8221; But is she in it to win? Or only to maximize her potential bargaining leverage, satisfy her supporters, and keep her &#8220;I told you so&#8221; argument on the backburner for 2012? One way to find out is to see what she does in Oregon. She&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Golfgate Here</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/greenwald/6121</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 13:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abe Greenwald</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, the following exchange occurred between President Bush and someone interviewing him from the Politico:
Q Mr. President, you haven&#8217;t been golfing in recent years. Is that related to Iraq?
THE PRESIDENT: Yes, it really is. I don&#8217;t want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the Commander-in-Chief playing golf. I feel I owe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s Out Of Touch?</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/6081</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 12:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Rubin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Watching MSNBC last night, I enjoyed the spectacle of Terry McAuliffe, Hillary Clinton&#8217;s campaign chair, arguing with Chris Matthews. McAuliffe insisted that the media had written Clinton off and was trying to shut down the race, while Matthews insisted the media would like nothing better than a race that would go all the way to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Thank You West Virginia!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/6071</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 01:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Rubin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton takes this victory as an &#8220;overwhelming vote of confidence.&#8221; From the Bible she says that she knows that &#8221;Faith can move mountains.&#8221; I am reasonably certain this is not Mike Huckabee in a salmon pantsuit. UPDATE: &#8220;You never quit and neither will I,&#8221; she says. She&#8217;s not going anywhere for awhile.
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		<title>Whistling A Happy Tune</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/6061</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 00:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Rubin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s likely what is going on in the McCain camp. Their general election opponent is getting clobbered in West Virginia. Hillary Clinton is delaying her speech until 9 :00 p.m. so the pundits can thoroughly review all the horrible Obama poll numbers. And then some sharp eyed media folk notice that Barack Obama get his facts wrong [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blame The Voter</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/6051</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 23:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Rubin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[We will hear plenty about the racist, poor West Virginia voters from the punditocracy. Apparently these voters don&#8217;t think &#8220;they (or is it he?) are the change they have been waiting for.&#8221; Juan Williams says: &#8220;It is not just race. It is this man and his vulnerabilities.&#8221; But it&#8217;s so much more satisfying for pundits to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the &#8220;Noted&#8221; File</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/6041</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 23:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Rubin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Really no one in West Virginia liked Barack Obama - women, seniors, uneducated, educated, whites, poor people - none of them. Maybe those pundits should have waited a week before declaring the race over. Doesn&#8217;t it look worse that in the face of &#8220;certain victory&#8221; Obama still can&#8217;t get these people on board? Well, there&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It Really Is Weird</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/jpodhoretz/6031</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 23:37:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Podhoretz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Exit polls say Hillary Clinton has won West Virginia 2-to-1. Barack Obama really should have done better than this.
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		<title>An Actual Bit Of Shocking News</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/greenwald/6021</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 23:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abe Greenwald</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[From Fox: 62% of West Virginia Hillary-voters said Bill Clinton&#8217;s campaigning was important to their vote.
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		<title>I Also Want It Noted&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/jpodhoretz/6011</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 23:29:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Podhoretz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;that I have a photograph I took almost seven years ago in which Bob Barr, now a candidate for the Libertarian Party&#8217;s presidential nomination, is wearing a tutu.
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		<title>I Want It Noted&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/jpodhoretz/6001</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 23:27:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Podhoretz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;that it was a woman on this blog who just wrote, &#8220;never overlook the ire of a woman scorned.&#8221;
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		<title>We Must Stamp Out Oblomovism!</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/jpodhoretz/5991</link>
		<comments>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/jpodhoretz/5991#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 23:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Podhoretz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In Slate, Jessica Winter claims to offer a list of great literary works about procrastination. Oddly, she doesn&#8217;t mention the only two indisputable masterpieces on the subject. One, of course, is Hamlet, who spends four acts not killing Claudius, the uncle who killed his father and married his mother. The other is Oblomov, Ivan Goncharov&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Pundits Will Talk About?</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/5981</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 23:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Rubin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In West Virginia 51% of the voters think Barack Obama actually agrees with Reverend Wright, not just that Obama&#8217;s judgment in maintaining the relationship is a concern. But didn&#8217;t the punditocracy tell us this was all behind him?
And, John, never overlook the ire of a woman scorned. One commentator asks: &#8220;How would you feel if you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Is This Night Different From All Other Nights?</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/5971</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 22:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Rubin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[We know Hillary Clinton will win big in West Virginia tonight, Barack Obama will dismiss it as unimportant, and she will tout it as evidence of superior electability. But why should it matter when he has the nomination sewn up? Rick Klein at the Note answers:
But what makes this (expected) loss different from all others [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Is Hillary Doing?</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/jpodhoretz/5951</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 22:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Podhoretz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a few possibilities.
1) She&#8217;s staying in the race to be in as strong a position as possible so that Obama has to pick her for vice president. This is the only rational explanation I can think of for her behavior, given that she is not an issue-driven candidate, pushing an agenda different from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Middle East Quote of the Day</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/pollak/5931</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 22:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noah Pollak</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[From a Washington Times story (about the changing Middle East) quoting Sheik Yazeeb Khader, a &#8220;Hamas political activist and editor&#8221;:
 What happened in Gaza in 2007 is an achievement; now it is happening in 2008 in Lebanon. It&#8217;s going to happen in 2009 in Jordan and it&#8217;s going to happen in 2010 in Egypt.
It would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gates on Low-Intensity Warfare</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/boot/5961</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 22:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max Boot</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As the Iraq War has gone on and on, serious doubts have been raised within the military about whether we are becoming overly focused on low-intensity warfare. Many officers fret that skills at conventional warfighting are deteriorating, and this is cited by some as cause to pull more forces out of Iraq faster. Defense Secretary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shame Diplomacy</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/greenwald/5941</link>
		<comments>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/greenwald/5941#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 21:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abe Greenwald</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[At Slate, Anne Applebaum argues for intervention in Burma. But on her way to making a serious case for action, she takes a frivolous and disingenuous detour through Iraq.
Unfortunately, the phrase &#8220;coalition of the willing&#8221; is tainted forever&#8211;once again proving that the damage done by the Iraq war goes far beyond the Iraqi borders&#8211;but a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Never Mind</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/5841</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 21:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Rubin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[For years Democrats have been singing John McCain&#8217;s praises each time he crossed swords with the Republican establishment. Whether on torture or campaign finance or global warming or Donald Rumsfeld, McCain was every Democrat&#8217;s favorite Republican. They liked him so much they tried to recruit him to join their party, and then their ticket, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does the Arab League Matter?</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/pollak/5921</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 21:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noah Pollak</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sunnis, we have been told time and time again, are in the midst of a huge freak-out when it comes to Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah &#8212; the three horsemen of the Middle Eastern apocalypse, as it were, or the three states (can we call Hezbollah a state yet?) whose alliance and ambition have put [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here&#8217;s Another Difference</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/5901</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 20:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Rubin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Part of Barack Obama&#8217;s expressed amazement over his difficulty in attracting Jewish support is his claim to adhere to positions identical to John McCain&#8217;s on Israel and Hamas. His willingness to hold direct talks with Hamas&#8217;s sponsor Iran without preconditions&#8211;and without insisting it renounce its policy of obliterating Israel&#8211;is one big difference. But it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The P.R. Difficulties of Jihad</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/pollak/5911</link>
		<comments>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/pollak/5911#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 20:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noah Pollak</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard not to notice one interesting way in which Islamic supremacists have been tying themselves in rhetorical knots as they try to explain their recent behavior in Gaza and Lebanon.
Hezbollah and Hamas both celebrate themselves as &#8220;resistance&#8221; movements &#8212; resistance to Israel, resistance to the arrogance and imperialism of the West, resistance to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Don&#8217;t They Like Him?</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/5801</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 19:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Rubin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama has repeatedly expressed amazement that Jewish voters have concerns about his candidacy. He has suggested, in essence, that they are irrational&#8211;seizing on his name or the remarks of other African-Americans or buying into internet chatter claiming he is a closet Muslim. And his defenders have insisted he doesn&#8217;t have a Jewish problem at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Re: Obama&#8217;s Little Pin</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/greenwald/5881</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 18:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abe Greenwald</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post’s Richard Cohen must be devastated. A mere week after he wrote, “Sometimes I think the best thing about Barack Obama is that little empty space on his lapel,” Senator Obama (as Peter mentioned earlier) has gone and handicapped himself by re-accessorizing his person with an American flag pin.
In a May 6 op-ed, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plutonium for Dummies</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/chang/5891</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 18:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon G. Chang</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It&#8217;s the plutonium, stupid,&#8221; write Siegfried Hecker and William Perry in this morning&#8217;s Washington Post.  The two leading members of America&#8217;s Korea fraternity argue that, when it comes to Pyongyang,  America&#8217;s most immediate goal should be eliminating its only working reactor, which is located at Yongbyon.  Arguments over the North&#8217;s uranium weapons [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Missile Defensiveness</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/greenwald/5811</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 15:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abe Greenwald</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s New York Times could find no bloody and hopeless Iraq story to run in its A section. But the paper of record weighed in with some indispensable coverage all the same. Amazingly, a missile was fired in&#8211;of all places&#8211;a war zone:
A surface-to-air missile was fired on Saturday at an American Apache helicopter flying over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Re: His To Lose</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/5761</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 15:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Rubin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[John, I&#8217;m as realistic as any other observer about the uphill struggle John McCain faces. He&#8217;s got the drag of George W. Bush&#8217;s unpopularity, the economy, the falling number of registered GOP voters, and the Iraq war (which, although not calamitous from a political standpoint, is definitely not a winning issue for McCain). But if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s His To Lose</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/jpodhoretz/5821</link>
		<comments>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/jpodhoretz/5821#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 14:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Podhoretz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Jennifer, all those numbers you just quoted, along with everything else coming down the pike, bring home a very hard reality: Barack Obama is going to have to work hard to lose this election.
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Little Pin</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/wehner/5791</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 14:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Wehner</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So apparently Barack Obama is back to wearing an American flag on his lapel. It&#8217;s such a seemingly minor matter, yet one that tells us something worth knowing about the junior senator from Illinois.
To begin at the beginning. Just who among the right wing attack machine made this an issue? Was it Floyd Brown or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wiser in Battle?</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/boot/5781</link>
		<comments>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/boot/5781#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 14:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max Boot</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Washington Post today, I point out some of the problems with retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez&#8217;s new memoir, Wiser in Battle. But even a 1,000-word review is insufficient space to deconstruct all of the myths, misunderstandings, and false impressions that Sanchez tries to peddle. On his own blog, Phil Carter offers trenchant thoughts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grasping at Straws</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/5751</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 14:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Rubin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It is not like Hillary Clinton needs any more encouragement to stick around. She and her husband&#8211;in a flashback to old times&#8211;seem impervious to the growing chorus of Democrats hoping she&#8217;ll exit quickly. The latest Washington Post/ABC poll won&#8217;t please those trying to sweep her off the stage.
A surprising 64% of voters want her to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Worst of Times</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/5771</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 12:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Rubin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[You would think the mainstream media would be reveling in the triumph of post-racial America. We are, it appears, on the verge of having the first African-American as a Presidential nominee. White voters have  turned out in the millions to vote for him. But are pundits congratulating their fellow citizens on putting American race [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aftermath of the Obama Interview on Israel</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/5741</link>
		<comments>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/5741#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 03:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Rubin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday&#8217;s Barack Obama interview caused quite a stir on the Right blogosphere. The New York Times not surprisingly finds the interview a smashing success for Obama, perhaps because the reporter leaves out any mention of his assertion that Hamas likely finds him &#8220;worldly,&#8221; or that he doesn&#8217;t seem much bothered by the Hamas endorsement.
I do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bomb Rangoon &#8212; With Aid</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/kirchick/5731</link>
		<comments>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/kirchick/5731#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 03:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Kirchick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[While the death toll in Burma rises, its government continues to block foreign aid shipments, and Western governments fret about what to do, some outspoken voices across the pond are offering up some useful ideas. British Conservative Party leader David Cameron has come up with a novel proposal to the crisis in Burma: air-drop supplies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bizarro Environmental Fight</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/5721</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 23:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Rubin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama criticized John McCain sharply for McCain&#8217;s global warming speech, deeming it &#8220;breathtaking&#8221;  in light of McCain&#8217;s alleged record of voting against (unnamed) efforts for clean energy. McCain&#8217;s camp turned the tables and bashed Obama for voting for the Bush energy bill. That&#8217;s right: McCain is attacking the Democratic near-nominee for voting with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The World&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/greenwald/5711</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 21:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abe Greenwald</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In a radio interview, President Bush said &#8220;the world ought to be angry and condemn&#8221; the Burmese junta for their response to the cyclone that devastated their country eleven days ago. Waiting for &#8220;the world&#8221; to condemn something other than America or Israel will bring us into the next Presidential administration and beyond. And by [...]]]></description>
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