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		<title>An Immense Hope</title>
		<link>http://emergentink.com/2008/11/05/an-immense-hope/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paul</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NY Times: Obama Elected President as Racial Barrier Falls 

“If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer,” said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Next Four Years</title>
		<link>http://emergentink.com/2008/11/04/the-next-four-years/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paul</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Confused by this? It was written yesterday, and will be published tomorrow in Citizen News. You&#8217;re not stuck in a time warp.
Election Day is behind us, and I hope by now we know who won. I wouldn’t blame the winner if he called for a recount, given what’s facing him in the next four years.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Last Word</title>
		<link>http://emergentink.com/2008/11/03/the-last-word/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paul</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[From FiveThirtyEight.com:

McCain&#8217;s chances of victory are estimated at 1.9 percent, their lowest total of the year.

For those of you who prefer to end this campaign on a positive note, Obama&#8217;s chances of victory are estimated at 98.1 percent, their highest total of the year.
I realize that for some of you, that&#8217;s not a positive note. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Way Things Work</title>
		<link>http://emergentink.com/2008/11/02/the-way-things-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 01:53:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paul</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Republican Party is telling scary stories about socialism in its desperate last-minute attempt to stop Barack Obama from winning this election. (Yes, that&#8217;s what this is about. It&#8217;s not about electing John McCain. If it was about electing John McCain, we would have learned something about what John McCain intends to do if he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Scary Story</title>
		<link>http://emergentink.com/2008/11/01/a-scary-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 02:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paul</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy belated Halloween! Got this email last night:

Three children go out trick or treating.  Two went out early - - the third slept late and then joined them.  The three knock on a door, and the man who answered is shocked that two of the three have bags full of candy and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Smart Guy, For A Change</title>
		<link>http://emergentink.com/2008/10/28/the-smart-guy-for-a-change/</link>
		<comments>http://emergentink.com/2008/10/28/the-smart-guy-for-a-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paul</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s hard to believe that the 2008 presidential campaign that began almost two years ago will be over in a week.
I don’t know what I am going to do with all the free time I’ll have when I finally stop flipping between CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC in a futile nightly search for unbiased reporting. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spreading the Wealth</title>
		<link>http://emergentink.com/2008/10/22/spreading-the-wealth/</link>
		<comments>http://emergentink.com/2008/10/22/spreading-the-wealth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paul</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[You have heard all this by now:
Politico: RNC shells out $150K for Palin fashion

The Republican National Committee has spent more than $150,000 to clothe and accessorize vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her family since her surprise pick by John McCain in late August.
According to financial disclosure records, the accessorizing began in early September and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colin Powell Endorses Barack Obama</title>
		<link>http://emergentink.com/2008/10/19/colin-powell-endorses-barack-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://emergentink.com/2008/10/19/colin-powell-endorses-barack-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 03:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paul</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Many Republicans hoped to see a President Colin Powell some day. The former Secretary of State endorsed Barack Obama on Meet the Press today.

MR. BROKAW:  Well, let&#8217;s move to the American presidential campaign now, if we can.  We saw at the beginning of this broadcast a short tease of what you had to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Zen Question</title>
		<link>http://emergentink.com/2008/10/15/the-zen-question/</link>
		<comments>http://emergentink.com/2008/10/15/the-zen-question/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paul</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The stock market fell more than 1,800 points last week. That wasn’t the worst thing that happened. The presidential campaign turned nasty with character attacks that threatened to tear the country apart, but that wasn’t the worst thing either. My Bocce team finished out of the playoffs; I’ll even recover from that.
The worst thing that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recklessness and Dishonesty</title>
		<link>http://emergentink.com/2008/10/14/recklessness-and-dishonesty/</link>
		<comments>http://emergentink.com/2008/10/14/recklessness-and-dishonesty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 03:38:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paul</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Christopher Buckley caused quite a stir at National Review over his recent decision to vote for Barack Obama. He ended up offering to resign from the magazine his father founded. His offer was accepted.

So, I have been effectively fatwahed (is that how you spell it?) by the conservative movement, and the magazine that my father [...]]]></description>
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