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	<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 15:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>What&#8217;s He Been Watching?</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/greenwald/5271</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 15:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abe Greenwald</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s Washington Post, Eugene Robinson has an op-ed on Hillary&#8217;s recent boast about getting white voters and what it says about her:
As a statement of fact, that&#8217;s debatable at best. As a rationale for why Democratic Party superdelegates should pick her over Obama, it&#8217;s a slap in the face to the party&#8217;s most loyal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yes, We Have An Opponent</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/5221</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 14:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Rubin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The RNC has come out with a new ad mocking the &#8220;Yes, we can&#8221; chant. It raises a number of questions about Obama&#8217;s &#8220;present&#8221; votes in the Illinois state senate, his spending plans, his votes to cut troop funding, his Snobgate comments, and his lack of national experience. What is not clear yet is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s ElBaradei Up To?</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/ottolenghi/5241</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 14:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emanuele Ottolenghi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[IAEA Director General Mohammad ElBaradei has again shown whose side he is on. Less than a week after the Permanent Five and Germany issued a statement announcing a new incentives&#8217; package for Iran, ElBaradei called on the U.S. to show more flexibility with Iran. The details of the new offer are not publicly known, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Do We Do Now?</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/schoenfeld/5231</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 14:17:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Schoenfeld</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in February, the Pentagon announced that it had moved the guided-missile destroyer, USS Cole, and a number of other ships to the eastern Mediterranean, off the coast of Lebanon.
It sends a &#8220;signal that we&#8217;re engaged and we are going to be in the vicinity, and that&#8217;s a very important part of the world.&#8221; Adm. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Angry</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/5091</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 13:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Rubin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no doubt that Michelle Obama has some anger issues. It might seem puzzling as to why a rich, successful, and well-educated woman with a good shot at becoming First Lady should be so darn mad. Maybe she should listen to P.J. O&#8217;Rourke who explains a bit about fairness:
I&#8217;ve got a 10-year-old at home. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran Shouts &#8220;Nuclear Apartheid&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/chang/5211</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 13:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon G. Chang</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, Iran&#8217;s Ali Asghar Soltanieh said  Tehran would not submit to extensive U.N. inspections of its nuclear program while Israel refuses to sign the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.  Iran is a signatory to the NPT, as the global pact is called, and, as such, is not permitted to build or hold nuclear weapons. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Tale of Two Elections</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/trager/5201</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 12:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Trager</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, after the New York Post&#8217;s investigative journalism had rendered a stringent gag order on the media ineffective, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert finally spoke out regarding the scandal that has shrouded his office for the past week.  In a gloomy tone, Olmert denied taking bribes from an American businessman, and vowed that he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Things Get Worse in Lebanon</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/hazony/5191</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 12:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Hazony</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Things continue to heat up in Lebanon. This week Hezbollah gunmen seized control of large parts of Beirut, and today shut down the &#8220;Future News&#8221; television station , run by Saad Hariri, leader of the government-supporting majority party in parliament. Clashes have erupted between the Shi&#8217;ite terror group and militia forces loyal to the government, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Is Smearing Whom?</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/5171</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 12:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Rubin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The McCain team released this in response to Barack Obama&#8217;s charge that he was &#8220;smeared&#8221; when John McCain noted that Hamas had endorsed Obama. The McCain team is not just calling foul, but picking up a bat and swinging back:
First, let us be clear about the nature of Senator Obama&#8217;s attack today: He used the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wurmser Weighs In</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/pollak/5141</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 12:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noah Pollak</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Be sure to check out David Wurmser&#8217;s take on Lebanon, by way of Lee Smith, who is guest-blogging for Michael Totten. (Wurmser was VP Cheney&#8217;s Middle East guru for many years.)
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		<title>About That &#8220;Smear&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/greenwald/5151</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 21:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abe Greenwald</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Jennifer is too modest to mention it, but she played a considerable role in the “smear”  to which Obama today referred. It was during a blogger conference call on April 25 that she, in fact, asked John McCain to comment on Hamas’s preference for Obama above the other presidential candidates. As it happens, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abu Lughod&#8217;s Little Fib</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/karsh/5161</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 21:44:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Efraim Karsh</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In a panel discussion in Columbia University last week, commemorating &#8220;60 Years of Nakba - The Catastrophe of Palestine 1948-2008,&#8221; Lila Abu Lughod, a professor of anthropology and gender studies at the university, emotively told the audience how her father, Ibrhaim, had been expelled from his hometown of Jaffa in Palestine in May 1948.
Expelled? This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Peek At What We&#8217;ll See</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/5131</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 21:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Rubin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama accused John McCain of &#8220;smearing him&#8221; by claiming that Hamas wants Obama to be President. But this isn&#8217;t a smear, it is fact. A spokesman for Hamas, you will recall, did endorse Obama. This report is fairly straightforward:
During an interview on WABC radio Sunday, top Hamas political adviser Ahmed Yousef said the terrorist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McCain&#8217;s Four Quarters</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/casse/5121</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 19:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Casse</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Although I loathe sports analogies in politics, this one seems irresistible: For John McCain, the presidential season has four quarters. He will lose the first three. Will he be able to make it up in the fourth?
The first quarter began when the Republican race became a fait accompli and the Democratic battle between Clinton and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Didn&#8217;t They Listen To Tim Russert?</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/5101</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 19:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Rubin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps the news hasn&#8217;t sunk in that the media declared the race over, but for now Hillary Clinton&#8217;s poll numbers are holding up quite nicely. It will be a tad embarrassing for Barack Obama if Clinton thumps him in a couple of primaries. (This may explain why he&#8217;s off the trail for awhile and focusing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Losing After Losing</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/greenwald/5111</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 18:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abe Greenwald</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Drum, over at the lefty Washington Monthly:
Hillary Clinton insists, unsurprisingly, that she&#8217;s going to press on, but I wonder if the rest of us have to press on as well? Instead of continuing the internecine warfare of the past couple of months, maybe the best thing to do is to start ignoring her&#8211;perhaps the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brownout</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/kirchick/4902</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 18:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Kirchick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Things are looking bad for British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The man who spent ten years plotting, complaining about and backstabbing his boss Tony Blair has now achieved the lowest approval ratings for a Prime Minister in the history of polling on the subject. 55% of Labour&#8217;s own supporters believe that their party will have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>His First Test</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/4981</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 17:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Rubin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Some believe that Hillary Clinton is angling to be Barack Obama&#8217;s VP. His netroot cheering section in the blogosphere would no doubt have a meltdown if that came to pass. After all, his &#8220;change&#8221; and &#8220;turn the page&#8221; messages were premised in large part on the notion that people were sick of Clintonian politics. To [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nasrallah Speaks</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/pollak/5071</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 16:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noah Pollak</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Hezbollah&#8217;s thug-in-chief, Hassan Nasrallah, addressed Lebanon today. What he said is not promising. You can read the entire transcript here, but it&#8217;s not necessary. The following snippet tells you everything you need to know:
I said . . . that any hand that reaches for the resistance [i.e., Hezbollah] and its arms will be cut off. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Broadcasting Obama</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/greenwald/5061</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 15:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abe Greenwald</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama supporters often argue that a black U.S. president, such as Obama, will be welcomed by the world as a sign of American­ progress and inclusiveness, a signal to all nations that the U.S. is open to the talents and contributions of diverse peoples. But the idea that the rest of the world shares [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coming In at No. 1</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/boot/5051</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 15:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max Boot</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Keith Olbermann, the bloviating sportscaster turned bloviating chat show host (or is that redundant?), paid me a signal honor by making me the No. 1 story last night on his list of the &#8220;headlines breaking in the administration&#8217;s 50 running scandals.&#8221;  What did I do to deserve this honor? I&#8217;ll let Keith explain:
And number [...]]]></description>
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		<title>She Goes There</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/5031</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 15:45:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Rubin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been a lot chatter (and some indications from her staffers) that Hillary Clinton isn&#8217;t going to fight to the bitter end and burn down the Democratic Party along the way. But then there is this interview with Clinton herself:
&#8220;I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on,&#8221; she said in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Statehood for Hezbollah?</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/pollak/4972</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 15:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noah Pollak</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Young has a characteristically terrific column in the Beirut Daily Star about Hezbollah&#8217;s latest power play.
Since last January, when Hizbullah and Amal [a Hezbollah-aligned Shia group&#8211;NP] used the pretense of social dissatisfaction to obstruct roads in and around Beirut, the opposition has, quite openly, shown itself to be limited to Hizbullah. Michel Aoun, once [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bookshelf</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/teachout/5041</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 14:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Teachout</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ Is it possible for one person to write a first-rate large-scale reference book? Of course&#8211;if he&#8217;s Samuel Johnson. But even Dr. Johnson found it famously difficult to bring his Dictionary into being, and though there have been any number of noble successors to that great work, most of the significant reference books to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get Rid of the Clowns</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/schoenfeld/5021</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 14:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Schoenfeld</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve returned time and again to the National Intelligence Estimate of last December, which declared flatly, and misleadingly, that Iran&#8217;s nuclear-weapons program came to a halt in 2003.
How did this intelligence fiasco happen? Leonard Spector and Avner Cohen, two close students of nuclear-proliferation, recently co-chaired a &#8220;roundtable&#8221; composed of intelligence officials and outside experts. According [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Now They Tell Us</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/5001</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 13:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Rubin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post, a bit late for Democratic primary voters to consider, notes that despite Barack Obama&#8217;s high-minded talk about rising above the Red  state-Blue state divide, &#8220;his political program and his legislative record are almost entirely blue.&#8221; Wait: he&#8217;s really liberal? Who knew! Then the Post confesses that
 he has done his share [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israel at 60</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/hazony/5011</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 12:41:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Hazony</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Israel&#8217;s independence day, and the country has taken two days off from everything&#8211;the war, the corruption, the politics&#8211;to celebrate six decades of Jewish sovereignty. The unofficial theme this year, I believe, is &#8220;warts and all&#8221;: Yes, we haven&#8217;t yet found a way either to defeat our enemies or make peace with them. Yes, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Example</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/4991</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 12:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Rubin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Every major newspaper and every TV news network is replete with &#8220;it&#8217;s over&#8221; and &#8220;she&#8217;s keeping up a good front but looking for options&#8221; stories about Hillary Clinton&#8217;s impending exit. There is something both admirable and pathetic about the entire spectacle. Campaign advisers with no involvement in the current race might be ruing the &#8220;campaign [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time to Go</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/4971</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 22:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Rubin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The evidence is overwhelming that Barack Obama will be the nominee. We are entering the stage where clearly devoted supporters are quietly urging Hillary Clinton to think about leaving the race. Yes, there are good reasons to remain and some good advice to help her carry on&#8211;if she could look forward to some great opportunity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cambridge University of Saud</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/greenwald/4961</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 21:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abe Greenwald</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[England&#8217;s Cambridge University and Edinburgh University have accepted a £16 million endowment from Saudi Prince Al-Walid to create Islamic study centers that &#8220;aim to carry out research and public engagements designed to increase understanding between the Muslim world and the West.&#8221;
What exactly does &#8220;understanding&#8221; mean? A month after 9/11, when the same Prince Al-Walid tried [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Salt-of-the-Earth Democrats</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/levin/4952</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 21:17:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yuval Levin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Among the most peculiar aspects of the very peculiar Democratic nomination contest now drawing to a close has been Hillary Clinton&#8217;s transformation into a beer-drinking, blue-collar everyman. It has been thoroughly and transparently dishonest, of course. But it worked reasonably well, and over the last few weeks in particular she ably played the cultural conservative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teacher And Apprentice Revisited</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/greenwald/4942</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 20:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abe Greenwald</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In the December 2007 issue of the Atlantic, Mark Ambinder wrote a piece on Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama&#8217;s relationship in the Senate. It was a dramatic read then, and in light of last night, it&#8217;s positively Shakespearean.
When Obama assumed his U.S. Senate seat in January 2005, he reached out to Hillary, looking for mentorship.
Clinton&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shuler Misses</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/trager/4951</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 19:44:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Trager</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Congressman Heath Shuler of North Carolina, a former NFL quarterback, has just backed Hillary Clinton.  This means that Shuler is about as good at picking his endorsements as he was at finding his receivers.
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		<title>Beirut on the Brink</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/pollak/4932</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 19:16:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noah Pollak</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Lebanon is in turmoil again today, but this time the turmoil is clearer than it has been in the past. As things stand right now, members of Hezbollah are thugging their way through the streets of Beirut, setting fires, fighting, and dumping piles of dirt and trash in the roads in order to shut down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Thoughts on Last Night</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/wehner/4941</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 19:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Wehner</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ 1. Barack Obama will be the Democratic nominee for President. That was clear before yesterday; absent a complete and unforeseen disaster, it&#8217;s  a certainty now. Democratic superdelegates will soon begin to break in  large numbers for Obama. They have been wanting to do so for some time  now; what they needed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hitting the Streets in Jenin (and Nablus)</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/pollak/4922</link>
		<comments>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/pollak/4922#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 17:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noah Pollak</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When the vast quantities of baroque rhetoric that accumulate around the peace process are distilled, a basic formula for progress remains: Israel must cease building settlements, and the Palestinian Authority must field a non-corrupt, non-terrorist, non-incompetent police force in the Palestinian territories. If the day arrives when the PA security forces become crack anti-terror squads, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clinton Team Conference Call</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/4901</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 17:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Rubin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In a media call today, Clinton advisors Howard Wolfson and Geoff Garin tried to make the case that it&#8217;s full steam ahead for HRC. Wolfson said bluntly: &#8220;No discussions about not going forward.&#8221; Garin&#8217;s spin about last night&#8217;s result? Hillary Clinton came from far behind in their internal polls (which had her down eight points [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Task Ahead</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/jpodhoretz/4921</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 16:36:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Podhoretz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Between them, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have generated more than 30 million primary votes. To say there has never been anything like this is to understate the case. In 2000, when George W. Bush and John McCain were fighting it out for the Republican nomination, a total of 20 million votes was cast. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The General Idea</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/4891</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 15:57:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Rubin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[We have known what Barack Obama&#8217;s message is for a year: change. Change Washington&#8217;s political culture, change the way we engage our enemies, change the tax structure, and change reliance on a largely private health care insurance system. His countermessage: John McCain is against change and wants more of George W. Bush&#8217;s policies.
So what is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israeli Democracy Gags</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/trager/4892</link>
		<comments>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/trager/4892#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 13:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Trager</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[For nearly a week, the Israeli Prime Minister&#8217;s office has been shrouded in scandal&#8211;a scandal so major, we&#8217;ve been told, that it will probably be the scandal that forces the scandal-ridden Israeli Prime Minister from office.  What exactly happened?  Nobody really knows and, thus far, only the New York Post has uncovered any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here&#8217;s The Rub</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/4871</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 12:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Rubin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama can fix his rhetoric (as he did last night). But can he fix his demographics? He won big in North Carolina and nearly bumped Hillary Clinton off in Indiana. He won the expectations game in a big away. Still, some perspective is in order:
[H]is victory in North Carolina depended heavily on his overwhelming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preview</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/4851</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 11:37:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Rubin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to know what Hillary&#8217;s strategist, Harold Ickes, might whisper in the ears of superdelegates if she decides to stay in and fight, here is a good taste. Nothing quite beats Paul Begala lecturing Donna Brazile that Democrats can&#8217;t win with a coalition of &#8220;eggheads and African Americans.&#8221; After that exchange, you can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Compassion of Bill</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/schoenfeld/4881</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 11:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Schoenfeld</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Courtesy of the New York Times: 
Mr. Clinton’s frenetic schedule spared no time for the distractions that often crop up on the campaign trail. When a young woman collapsed from the heat at an event on Sunday afternoon in Marion, he did not stop speaking for a second. And when an elderly man fainted later that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vanishing</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/4861</link>
		<comments>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/4861#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 04:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Rubin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As Lake County finally shows its hand, Hillary Clinton&#8217;s lead slips away. Whether she narrowly hangs on or whether she loses by a few thousand votes hardly seems to matter. Today the conversations will no doubt start as to how to reach a &#8220;graceful&#8221; end, as Bill Kristol described it. The Republicans will not enjoy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hillary Soldiering On</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/4841</link>
		<comments>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/4841#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 02:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Rubin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Lake County, home of Gary and a stronghold for Barack Obama, is holding out. No votes reported until those last minute absentee ballots are hand counted. Hmm. Michael Barone and Bob Beckel have stories aplenty about &#8220;rough and ready&#8221; politics there from past elections. The upshot is that most of the morning papers won&#8217;t have a banner [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where Was This Hillary All Her Life?</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/jpodhoretz/4842</link>
		<comments>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/jpodhoretz/4842#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 02:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Podhoretz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If Hillary had taken the Obama challenge more seriously last year, and had refined her message then as she has now, and had been able to speak in the calm, controlled, un-shrill cadence of the speech she is delivering right now, Obama would not have burst out of the gates with Secretariat speed as he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Plays It Fast and Loose</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/jpodhoretz/4821</link>
		<comments>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/jpodhoretz/4821#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 01:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Podhoretz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It is not weakness but wisdom to talk not just to our friends but to our enemies, like Roosevelt did and Kennedy did and Truman did,&#8221; he just said. Let&#8217;s see now. Roosevelt went to war with Japan and Germany; he did not &#8220;talk&#8221; to them. Truman dropped two atomic bombs on Japan. Kennedy did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wright: The Perfect Storm</title>
		<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/4831</link>
		<comments>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/4831#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 01:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Rubin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It may be that particularly in North Carolina, and particularly among very liberal and African American voters, Reverend Wright helped Barack Obama seal the deal. The problem is that this and related controversies may have seriously unraveled the Democratic coalition he will need in the fall. But it is a long way to November and Obama will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wright Effect</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 01:29:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Podhoretz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So what if the whole Jeremiah Wright scandal has actually helped Obama among Democrats because, to them, it makes him seem more like a victim?
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		<title>Obama Believes He Has It In The Bag</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 01:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Rubin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[He is smiling as he gives his victory speech. He is talking about uniting the Democratic Party. He is being magnanimous to Hillary Clinton. He gets in the math - 200 delegates from the nomination - and reminds those superdelegates he won a &#8220;big&#8221; state.
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