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	<title>A Second Hand Conjecture &#187; Election 2008</title>
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		<title>Tracking Obama&#8217;s Campaign Promises</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/01/19/tracking-obamas-campaign-promises/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/01/19/tracking-obamas-campaign-promises/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a site to add to your bookmarks and check every once in awhile. It&#8217;s a site called PolitiTruth.com set up by the St. Petersburg Times to keep track of all 510 of might as well call him President now &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/01/19/tracking-obamas-campaign-promises/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Resignations for Radicals</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/09/resignations-for-radicals/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/09/resignations-for-radicals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sadly, it seems Angela Keaton has finally resigned from the Libertarian National Committee. If you haven&#8217;t been following this little bit of salacious Libertarian Party drama, here&#8217;s the &#8220;Resolution of Discipline&#8221; against her from December 1st, which details many of &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/09/resignations-for-radicals/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Sullivan: Unhinged as a Truther</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/06/sullivan-unhinged-as-a-truther/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/06/sullivan-unhinged-as-a-truther/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 16:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan, who&#8217;s never met a Sarah Palin rumor or slander he didn&#8217;t like, continues his transformation into an irrelevant and deranged Palin truther. It&#8217;s sad to see a once respectable voice in the blogosphere come unraveled, but Sullivan has &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/06/sullivan-unhinged-as-a-truther/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Post Election Polling?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/11/post-election-polling/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/11/post-election-polling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m signed up to recieve emails for Zogby Polls so I too noticed the strange questions a reader at Clayton Cramer&#8217;s blog did. If you knew Barack Obama supported a plan to place a 75% excise tax on the sale &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/11/post-election-polling/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Animal Sacrifice and Sacrificial Punditry</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/07/animal-sacrifice-and-sacrificial-punditry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Delighted with the American election result for whatever reason, Kurdish villagers in Cavustepe, Turkey have sacrificed 44 sheep to honor Barack Obama. They also smeared the blood of the offering on Obama campaign posters, purportedly for good luck. Now there&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/07/animal-sacrifice-and-sacrificial-punditry/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Blaming Obama for the Market</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/07/blaming-obama-for-the-market/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/07/blaming-obama-for-the-market/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Armbruster at ThinkProgress is upset Fred Barnes and Dick Morris are blaming Obama for the post-election declines in the stock market. Armbruster&#8217;s case is a little defensive and misjudged (he cites the New York Times&#8217; opinion, as if that &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/07/blaming-obama-for-the-market/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Blaming the Social Conservatives</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/05/blaming-the-social-conservatives/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/05/blaming-the-social-conservatives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:07:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As readers will know, I&#8217;m certainly no apologist for the social conservative movement in either its style or purposes. But it seems to me to be an awful injustice to lay at their feet the defeat of John McCain, in &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/05/blaming-the-social-conservatives/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>An Immunity to Ecstasy</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/05/an-immunity-to-ecstasy/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/05/an-immunity-to-ecstasy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So we had an election. For those in the new opposition the outcome was variously enviable, troubling, or contemptible. For the victors it was&#8230;what else, an occasion for gathering an enormous outdoor rally at an urban theatrical stage to chant. &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/05/an-immunity-to-ecstasy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>1948 After All</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/05/1948-after-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting: [W]e are on pace for the worst reaction to an election since Truman won in 1948.  Interestingly, the only times the DJIA has ever declined by more than 1% [are] the day after a presidential election when the Democratic Party won complete control. (Bespoke)]]></description>
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		<title>Our President</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/05/our-president/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, Obama has made history and been elected president. I didn&#8217;t vote for him nor support him, but I have supported every US president in my lifetime and President Obama will be no different. I am going to disagree with &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/05/our-president/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Proper Voting Attire</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/04/proper-voting-attire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:47:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People are finding out that you have to be careful what you wear to the polling booth. The 40-year-old Houston Realtor was wearing one of her souvenir T-shirts when she went to cast her ballot at a Cypress polling place &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/04/proper-voting-attire/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Cocktail Politics, Rio Rancho Office Space and Truman Republicans</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/03/cocktail-politics-rio-rancho-office-space-and-truman-republicans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It occurs to me that the sequence of cocktails is the best political indicator I know of on election night. In 2004 I was attending a Democratic election party and early on everyone was drinking wine and martinis in stemware, &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/03/cocktail-politics-rio-rancho-office-space-and-truman-republicans/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Philippines as Red State</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/30/the-philippines-as-red-state/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/30/the-philippines-as-red-state/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filipino writer Benjamin Pimentel is surprised to discover that his countrymen were among the very few foreign populations to prefer John McCain to Barack Obama in a Gallup international survey. A happy place for Republicans in a lonely world apparently, as &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/30/the-philippines-as-red-state/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtains</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/24/pay-no-attention-to-the-man-behind-the-curtains/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alan Reynolds at Cato asks &#8220;How&#8217;s Obama Going to Raise $4.3 Trillion?&#8221; Altogether, Mr. Obama is promising at least $4.3 trillion of increased spending and reduced tax revenue from 2009 to 2018 &#8212; roughly an extra $430 billion a year &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/24/pay-no-attention-to-the-man-behind-the-curtains/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Is Income Tax Becoming Too Progressive?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/21/is-income-tax-becoming-too-progressive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fewer and fewer people are paying income tax and even less will be with either candidates tax plan. I don&#8217;t think this would be such a problem if we didn&#8217;t have such high spending, growing entitlements, and if so many &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/21/is-income-tax-becoming-too-progressive/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Socialism, Polls, Matt Drudge</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/19/socialism-polls-matt-drudge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve probably heard that John McCain has denounced Barack Obama&#8217;s &#8216;spread the wealth&#8217; formulation for tax policy as socialism. It&#8217;s an inflammatory but not unjustified charge, as a good definition for socialism is the equitable distribution of wealth to the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/19/socialism-polls-matt-drudge/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Not Sure if You&#8217;ve Voted?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/19/not-sure-if-youve-voted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 15:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been seeing this amusing banner ad for Obama popping up all over the web. Given the behavior of some of ACORN&#8217;s representatives, it might not be an illegitimate question.]]></description>
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		<title>Christopher Hitchens &amp; Political Irresponsibility</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/18/christopher-hitchens-political-irresponsibility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Video of Laura Ingraham interrogating Christopher Hitchens over his rather weakly supported endorsement of Barack Obama for president. Hitch&#8217;s primary position in this chat is that Obama should be supported because he is &#8220;evolving&#8221; toward support of a more aggressive &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/18/christopher-hitchens-political-irresponsibility/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Joe the Plumber is Evil</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/16/joe-the-plumber-is-evil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:20:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m experiencing a little déjà vu over the invective that&#8217;s starting to pour out of the left against &#8220;Joe the Plumber.&#8221; It has a decidedly reminiscent over-reactive, hysterical feel to it of the anti-Palin crusade. Here&#8217;s a typical example of &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/16/joe-the-plumber-is-evil/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Folly of Heroes</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/13/the-folly-of-heroes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a day for indignity. Just when I&#8217;d stopped shaking my head at the image of Paul Krugman accepting the Nobel Prize, I read two of my most cherished heroes offering rather embarrassing endorsements for bad things. Christopher Hitchens, always &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/13/the-folly-of-heroes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>McCain and the Electoral College</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/13/mccain-and-the-electoral-college/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For two weeks, as John McCain&#8217;s national polls first rose above Obama and then solidified there, Democrats protested that the popular vote was irrelevant. Look to the state polls said they, in a sensible but amusingly opportunistic argument for the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/13/mccain-and-the-electoral-college/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Palin Democrats</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/12/the-palin-democrats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tim Reid travels to Mount Clemens, Macomb County Michigan, to talk to white working class female voters. Macomb County should be core Democratic blue country, but it was here that Stanley Greenberg first identified the &#8220;Reagan Democrats&#8221; of the 1980s, &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/12/the-palin-democrats/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mark Penn on the Press &amp; Palin</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boy, this was an awfully interesting exchange. Democratic strategist Mark Penn, absurdly invited by Brian Goldsmith to argue the press has been soft on Sarah Palin, instead slams the media for counterproductively biased and vindictive coverage: CBSNews.com: Your former colleague &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/12/mark-penn-on-the-press-palin/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Error of Inexperience</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/12/the-error-of-inexperience/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a new Associated Press poll 46% of the public thinks Barack Obama is too inexperienced for the presidency, and only 36% say the same of Governor Palin. So much for that line of attack. In contrast with both, &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/12/the-error-of-inexperience/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Palinmania and the Stature Gap</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/palinmania-and-the-stature-gap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 03:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Toby Harnden weighs in with his thoughts on the Palin effect. All interesting, all very astute IMO. Of particular interest is Toby&#8217;s argument that McCain commands enough public respect for his experience and expertise, that he has no concerns about &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/palinmania-and-the-stature-gap/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Sarah Palin: FlightSim Gamer</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/sarah-palin-flightsim-gamer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Playing a demo for Aviation Day, at the STARBASE Alaska Military Youth Academy in Fort Richardson. Nice rig. Photo: Capt. Guy Hayes]]></description>
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		<title>John McCain and Sarah Palin: Fairfax Gallery</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ron Hilton caught some great shots at the McCain/Palin rally in Fairfax, Virginia. He was gracious enough to let us post them here for you:]]></description>
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		<title>Stop Making Sense</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith_Indy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really need to write my thoughts out sooner&#8230; Imagine for a moment if John McCain had used a similar shopworn phrase in reference to Barack Obama&#8217;s policies. Suppose he said, &#8220;Obama says he&#8217;s going to cut your taxes but &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/stop-making-sense/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Plan: Does This Work?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the Associated Press, a sequence of interviews with Democratic leaders has revealed this to be the political plan being recommended to the Obama campaign: 1. Tie the Republican to an unpopular President Bush. 2. Let no charge go &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/obamas-plan-does-this-work/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Obama and the Fate of Criticism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Tattered Hope&#8221; by Nathan Rupert Jason at postpolitical and I often get into testy email arguments about Barack Obama&#8217;s alleged &#8220;arrogance.&#8221; He is quite Greek in the sense that he thinks hubris is the fatal flaw at the heart of &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/obama-and-the-fate-of-criticism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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