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		<title>By: Katya</title>
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		<dc:creator>Katya</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:47:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Katya&lt;/strong&gt;

I am very impressed with your site. The quality of the design and content makes it a real winner! Thanks again for a great site and a great resource on the net.</description>
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<p>I am very impressed with your site. The quality of the design and content makes it a real winner! Thanks again for a great site and a great resource on the net.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4305164', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Max-1</title>
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		<dc:creator>Max-1</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2006 07:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;#17 Comment by Clif &lt;/strong&gt;

He&#039;ll be in office for 30 days, max.
Read developing news. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/7373&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;

Then it&#039;ll be Hassert.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>#17 Comment by Clif </strong></p>
<p>He&#8217;ll be in office for 30 days, max.<br />
Read developing news. <a href="http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/7373" rel="nofollow">HERE</a></p>
<p>Then it&#8217;ll be Hassert.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=434753', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Democrat Soldier</title>
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		<dc:creator>Democrat Soldier</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2006 15:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The part I liked was when the Democrats cheered and clapped about rebuffing Pres. Bush&#039;s attempt to destroy Social Security!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The part I liked was when the Democrats cheered and clapped about rebuffing Pres. Bush&#8217;s attempt to destroy Social Security!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=433472', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Clif</title>
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		<dc:creator>Clif</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2006 15:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#17 Have you ever looked at Cheny?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>#17 Have you ever looked at Cheny?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=433471', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: mr ho</title>
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		<dc:creator>mr ho</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2006 14:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>hopeful that Bush realizes he not King

that corporations are most important things
Bush isnt the lord of the Rings

man woman child dying in War Polity
that we may see world war three

fallen never to know one another
killed from afar by politico blunder

far more in common the fallen have
their backs the politicos stab

with slick and slimy words
tell you what you wish heard

Power is money to them man dirt
laws they sold along with their heart

mean spirits filled with infinite dark
Washington where corrupt liars lurk

for their you will find
the most inhumane kind</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>hopeful that Bush realizes he not King</p>
<p>that corporations are most important things<br />
Bush isnt the lord of the Rings</p>
<p>man woman child dying in War Polity<br />
that we may see world war three</p>
<p>fallen never to know one another<br />
killed from afar by politico blunder</p>
<p>far more in common the fallen have<br />
their backs the politicos stab</p>
<p>with slick and slimy words<br />
tell you what you wish heard</p>
<p>Power is money to them man dirt<br />
laws they sold along with their heart</p>
<p>mean spirits filled with infinite dark<br />
Washington where corrupt liars lurk</p>
<p>for their you will find<br />
the most inhumane kind<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=433381', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: BUSH BITES</title>
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		<dc:creator>BUSH BITES</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2006 13:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>WHERE DID BUSH GET HIS THOUGHTS ON &quot;HUMAN-ANIMAL HYBRIDS&quot;?

http://www.tv.com/Manimal/show/2154/summary.html</description>
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<p><a href="http://www.tv.com/Manimal/show/2154/summary.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.tv.com/Manimal/show/2154/summary.html</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=433363', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Red</title>
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		<dc:creator>Red</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2006 05:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yeah, we&#039;re hoping that Bush&#039;s reign of error ends soon.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, we&#8217;re hoping that Bush&#8217;s reign of error ends soon.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=433064', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Max-1</title>
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		<dc:creator>Max-1</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2006 04:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;#12 Comment by wisedup&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; 

&lt;strong&gt;Apolgies for inaction needs to go to the future.
Inactivity betrays their future, not our past.
Their past is happening NOW!!!&lt;/strong&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><strong>#12 Comment by wisedup</strong></em> </p>
<p><strong>Apolgies for inaction needs to go to the future.<br />
Inactivity betrays their future, not our past.<br />
Their past is happening NOW!!!</strong><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=433007', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Theresa</title>
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		<dc:creator>Theresa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2006 04:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well, #4, for each time he said &quot;Freedom&quot; you were required to take a drink (beer, wine, soda, cider, whatever). Take it from there. If you were imbibing, you&#039;re wasted.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, #4, for each time he said &#8220;Freedom&#8221; you were required to take a drink (beer, wine, soda, cider, whatever). Take it from there. If you were imbibing, you&#8217;re wasted.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=432991', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: SpudgeBoy</title>
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		<dc:creator>SpudgeBoy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2006 04:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;He is absolutely correct. Since the majority of us think the country is on the wrong track, we end up hoping for a better future. So if you think about it, George has made us a more hope filled country.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Good one. ;)

I am full of hope. You know why. Bush and friends have brought this country down so low that it can only go up from here. I suppose there is complete depression, but I am also hopeful that Bush will be stopped before that happens.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>He is absolutely correct. Since the majority of us think the country is on the wrong track, we end up hoping for a better future. So if you think about it, George has made us a more hope filled country.</p></blockquote>
<p>Good one. ;)</p>
<p>I am full of hope. You know why. Bush and friends have brought this country down so low that it can only go up from here. I suppose there is complete depression, but I am also hopeful that Bush will be stopped before that happens.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=432990', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: wisedup</title>
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		<dc:creator>wisedup</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2006 04:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I just couldn&#039;t watch another lie session. My apploigies to our founding fathers for not doing enough to stop our corupt goverment. We are growing in numbers by the day, and will overcome these dictators. I was weak, but I am getting stronger. Iran is just a diversion from them robbing the country. Lie to us, shame on them, lie to us more...shame on us.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just couldn&#8217;t watch another lie session. My apploigies to our founding fathers for not doing enough to stop our corupt goverment. We are growing in numbers by the day, and will overcome these dictators. I was weak, but I am getting stronger. Iran is just a diversion from them robbing the country. Lie to us, shame on them, lie to us more&#8230;shame on us.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=432987', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Max-1</title>
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		<dc:creator>Max-1</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2006 04:12:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;In between the frequent dashes to the porcelain goddess&lt;/strong&gt;

&lt;em&gt;I heard a knock at the door.

It was a plumber,
Comeing to fix the leak.&lt;/em&gt;

Thanks for the advancement.
The drippy, wet &lt;a href=&quot;http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/31/sotu-text/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SOTU speach&lt;/a&gt;.

An indication of the sense of intergral securities that which are lacking from an adminisrtation that parades its New Clothes. 

&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WE NEED TO WAHE AMERICA UP&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>In between the frequent dashes to the porcelain goddess</strong></p>
<p><em>I heard a knock at the door.</p>
<p>It was a plumber,<br />
Comeing to fix the leak.</em></p>
<p>Thanks for the advancement.<br />
The drippy, wet <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/31/sotu-text/" rel="nofollow">SOTU speach</a>.</p>
<p>An indication of the sense of intergral securities that which are lacking from an adminisrtation that parades its New Clothes. </p>
<p><em><strong>WE NEED TO WAHE AMERICA UP</strong></em><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=432982', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Buschco=Incompetent Boobs</title>
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		<dc:creator>Buschco=Incompetent Boobs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2006 03:54:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There were so many things in this speech which were quite patently absurd given his own policies â€” pleading for unity when heâ€™s been just a partisan as anyone, talking about improvements in technology after heâ€™s cut billions in student loans, bringing up the topic of affordable healthcare while cutting Medicaid, beating the dead horse of Social Securityâ€¦it just went on and on. I canâ€™t understand how anyone with any functioning brain cells left can continue to believe in this man anymore â€” but then again, I never believed in him to begin with.

Comment by Bluestocking â€” January 31, 2006 @ 10:33 pm 

I think they have lied so much and so often, thru Roves Spin,  and that they realize WE know about their Double Speak, Echo Chamber propaganda,  they are tongue tied. 
Bush is a Dead Duck Politically speaking, he may as well just Quit, like he has alot of other things.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There were so many things in this speech which were quite patently absurd given his own policies â€” pleading for unity when heâ€™s been just a partisan as anyone, talking about improvements in technology after heâ€™s cut billions in student loans, bringing up the topic of affordable healthcare while cutting Medicaid, beating the dead horse of Social Securityâ€¦it just went on and on. I canâ€™t understand how anyone with any functioning brain cells left can continue to believe in this man anymore â€” but then again, I never believed in him to begin with.</p>
<p>Comment by Bluestocking â€” January 31, 2006 @ 10:33 pm </p>
<p>I think they have lied so much and so often, thru Roves Spin,  and that they realize WE know about their Double Speak, Echo Chamber propaganda,  they are tongue tied.<br />
Bush is a Dead Duck Politically speaking, he may as well just Quit, like he has alot of other things.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=432963', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Buschco=Incompetent Boobs</title>
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		<dc:creator>Buschco=Incompetent Boobs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2006 03:48:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And Well, Like Nixon Here...
&quot;Thirty-five years ago,&quot; the San Francisco Chronicle&#039;s Bob Egelko recently wrote, &quot;President Richard Nixon claimed constitutional authority to wiretap Americans&#039; phone calls to protect national security without asking a judge...&quot; In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court ruled &quot;against Nixon, saying the Constitution granted the powers he was claiming to judges, not presidents.&quot;

Egelko also pointed out the &quot;Presidents have approved wiretaps without court orders since the 1940s, but the legality of the practice was thrown into doubt after the Supreme Court ruled in 1967 that electronic eavesdropping was a search, and thus covered by the prohibition on unreasonable searches in the Constitution&#039;s Fourth Amendment.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And Well, Like Nixon Here&#8230;<br />
&#8220;Thirty-five years ago,&#8221; the San Francisco Chronicle&#8217;s Bob Egelko recently wrote, &#8220;President Richard Nixon claimed constitutional authority to wiretap Americans&#8217; phone calls to protect national security without asking a judge&#8230;&#8221; In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court ruled &#8220;against Nixon, saying the Constitution granted the powers he was claiming to judges, not presidents.&#8221;</p>
<p>Egelko also pointed out the &#8220;Presidents have approved wiretaps without court orders since the 1940s, but the legality of the practice was thrown into doubt after the Supreme Court ruled in 1967 that electronic eavesdropping was a search, and thus covered by the prohibition on unreasonable searches in the Constitution&#8217;s Fourth Amendment.&#8221;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=432955', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: The Ringmaster</title>
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		<dc:creator>The Ringmaster</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2006 03:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Proving once again that there are lies, damn lies and State of the Union lies.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Proving once again that there are lies, damn lies and State of the Union lies.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=432938', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Buckley Roberts</title>
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		<dc:creator>Buckley Roberts</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2006 03:38:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>He is absolutely correct.  Since the majority of us think the country is on the wrong track, we end up hoping for a better future.  So if you think about it, George has made us a more hope filled country.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He is absolutely correct.  Since the majority of us think the country is on the wrong track, we end up hoping for a better future.  So if you think about it, George has made us a more hope filled country.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=432937', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Bluestocking</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bluestocking</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2006 03:33:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I still can&#039;t quite figure out whether Bush truly believes what he said and is simply living in a world of his own which has no relation to this one -- or doesn&#039;t believe a word of it and is simply selling snake oil.  There were so many things in this speech which were quite patently absurd given his own policies -- pleading for unity when he&#039;s been just a partisan as anyone, talking about improvements in technology after he&#039;s cut billions in student loans, bringing up the topic of affordable healthcare while cutting Medicaid, beating the dead horse of Social Security...it just went on and on.  I can&#039;t understand how anyone with any functioning brain cells left can continue to believe in this man anymore -- but then again, I never believed in him to begin with.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I still can&#8217;t quite figure out whether Bush truly believes what he said and is simply living in a world of his own which has no relation to this one &#8212; or doesn&#8217;t believe a word of it and is simply selling snake oil.  There were so many things in this speech which were quite patently absurd given his own policies &#8212; pleading for unity when he&#8217;s been just a partisan as anyone, talking about improvements in technology after he&#8217;s cut billions in student loans, bringing up the topic of affordable healthcare while cutting Medicaid, beating the dead horse of Social Security&#8230;it just went on and on.  I can&#8217;t understand how anyone with any functioning brain cells left can continue to believe in this man anymore &#8212; but then again, I never believed in him to begin with.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=432925', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Violetblu</title>
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		<dc:creator>Violetblu</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2006 03:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sorry I think it&#039;s &#039;freedom is on the march,&#039; that&#039;s it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry I think it&#8217;s &#8216;freedom is on the march,&#8217; that&#8217;s it.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=432907', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Violetblu</title>
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		<dc:creator>Violetblu</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2006 03:17:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description># 2  Hee hee hee, good one, I had to have some wine to endure this...

And because Bush tells them to, Hamas is now going
to recognize the state of Israel... riiiiiiiight.

How many times did he use the word &#039;freedom?&#039;
I meant to keep count.  I was waiting for &#039;the march
for freedom&#039; and I was not disappointed.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p># 2  Hee hee hee, good one, I had to have some wine to endure this&#8230;</p>
<p>And because Bush tells them to, Hamas is now going<br />
to recognize the state of Israel&#8230; riiiiiiiight.</p>
<p>How many times did he use the word &#8216;freedom?&#8217;<br />
I meant to keep count.  I was waiting for &#8216;the march<br />
for freedom&#8217; and I was not disappointed.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=432893', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: slugo</title>
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		<dc:creator>slugo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2006 03:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Go to Home Depot,Wal-Mart,Kmart,Sam&#039;s Club,Lowes,Best Buy,Costco,Target,and all the other big box stores. Look at all the middle aged and older workers who look out of place, and ask them how hopeful they are.
For Christ&#039;s sake minimum wage = </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Go to Home Depot,Wal-Mart,Kmart,Sam&#8217;s Club,Lowes,Best Buy,Costco,Target,and all the other big box stores. Look at all the middle aged and older workers who look out of place, and ask them how hopeful they are.<br />
For Christ&#8217;s sake minimum wage =<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=432877', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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