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	<title>A Second Hand Conjecture &#187; Barack Obama</title>
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		<title>Have National Politics Urbanized?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/03/12/have-national-politics-urbanized/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of us not living in the concentrated sprawl of the coastal and Midwestern metropoli, it is often extremely perplexing how urban Democratic mayors in places like Chicago and Philadelphia can compile lengthy and embarrassing records of incompetent and &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/03/12/have-national-politics-urbanized/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Chicago Tea Party</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/02/19/chicago-tea-party/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/02/19/chicago-tea-party/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rick Santelli just went off on Obama&#8217;s housing proposal live on CNBC from the commodities trading floor in Chicago. It&#8217;s now the headline on Drudge: VIDEO: &#8216;The government is promoting bad behavior&#8230; do we really want to subsidize the losers&#8217; &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/02/19/chicago-tea-party/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Abrogation of the Soul</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/02/16/abrogation-of-the-soul/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/02/16/abrogation-of-the-soul/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 02:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somewhat tortuously, the State Department has congratulated the victory of Hugo Chavez&#8217;s referendum to revoke term limits on his rule as a victory for participatory democracy, while faintly recommending a new respect for multiparty pluralism. Consider for a moment if &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/02/16/abrogation-of-the-soul/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bring Back Welfare, Please</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/02/07/bring-back-welfare-please/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 23:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics there are 11.6 million unemployed persons in the United States today. Meanwhile, the current estimate of the total cost of the spending package passed to alleviate this distress is $827 billion.  President Obama &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/02/07/bring-back-welfare-please/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Chris' Page]]></category>
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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>Rejecting Hamas</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/01/10/rejecting-hamas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a bit of good news from earlier. As you may have seen, reports have been swirling about a plan by Obama to open direct talks with Hamas. Those reports are evidently groundless, as a statement from Brooke Anderson was &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/01/10/rejecting-hamas/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Rise of Decline</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/01/04/the-rise-of-decline/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/01/04/the-rise-of-decline/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know you&#8217;re in an American recession when British observers start reflecting on the inevitability of American decline, and volunteering their allegedly privileged perspective gained from the fall of the British Empire (Mark Steyn, as always, excepted). So it is &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/01/04/the-rise-of-decline/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Implications of the Pletka Purge</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/22/implications-of-the-pletka-purge/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/22/implications-of-the-pletka-purge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Roland picks up an interesting piece by Jacob Heilbrunn for the National Interest, describing an ongoing purge of neoconservative intellectuals from the American Enterprise Institute, allegedly instigated by Vice President Danielle Pletka. So far Michael Ledeen and Reuel Marc Gerecht &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/22/implications-of-the-pletka-purge/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Silent Man</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/12/the-silent-man/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/12/the-silent-man/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Rahm Emmanuel falls, it&#8217;s &#8220;what did the president-elect know, and when did he know it&#8221; time. You cannot get any closer to Obama. An ugly business. ]]></description>
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		<title>Our Government&#8217;s Economic Policy Explained</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/02/our-governments-economic-policy-explained/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/02/our-governments-economic-policy-explained/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Fred Thompson. With only the most minor quibbles I not only laughed, but cried. Pretty much dead on: The sad thing is that it isn&#8217;t only &#8220;liberal&#8221; economists, it is the meat of the profession and plenty of so &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/02/our-governments-economic-policy-explained/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Separate Cause on Gitmo</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/17/a-separate-cause-on-gitmo/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/17/a-separate-cause-on-gitmo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In commenting on Barack Obama&#8217;s renewed pledge to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, Con Coughlin observes that most of the assembled army of Al Qaeda jihadists currently confined there would likely be released for lack of evidence, if the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/17/a-separate-cause-on-gitmo/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Editing Obama</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/16/editing-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pretty neat video visualization of edits to the Barack Obama Wikipedia entry from 2005 to election day.]]></description>
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		<title>California on the Drina</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/08/california-on-the-drina/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/08/california-on-the-drina/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 12:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may have noticed there&#8217;s an ugly and unfortunate current developing in some of the protests against Proposition 8 in California. Namely white gays, blaming blacks for its passage. Even Andrew Sullivan, who has been blaming blacks for a couple &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/08/california-on-the-drina/">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>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/07/animal-sacrifice-and-sacrificial-punditry/#comments</comments>
		<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>Poison from Austria</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/07/poison-from-austria/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/07/poison-from-austria/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the public outpouring of mourning for the loss of fascist sympathizer Jörg Haider were not enough to injure your esteem for contemporary Austrian public affairs, here&#8217;s another such moment. Klaus Emmerich, the highly esteemed former editor of Austria&#8217;s state &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/07/poison-from-austria/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Change.gov?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/07/changegov/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/07/changegov/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently we&#8217;re assigning the .gov domain extension used by federal agencies to campaign slogans now. Although, there is a certain literalism to this one I suppose.]]></description>
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		<title>Fair Trade Wars, Act I</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/05/fair-trade-wars-act-i/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/05/fair-trade-wars-act-i/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[South Korea is getting jittery about prospects for its long sought Free Trade Agreement with the United States, which is still yet to be approved by both countries, and is now under threat from a potentially protectionist Obama administration. In &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/05/fair-trade-wars-act-i/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The 2048 Election</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/05/the-2048-election/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/05/the-2048-election/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama has been president-elect for exactly one day and James Carville is already arguing for an inevitable Democratic majority for the next 40 years. Imagine predicting Jim&#8217;s claim to fame, the 1992 election, from the vantage of 1952, and &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/05/the-2048-election/">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>
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		<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>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>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>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>Democrats Need to Relax</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/democrats-need-to-relax/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Panic grips the Hill, with Democrats planning to distance themselves from Obama and/or abandon criticism of McCain. Geez. Snap out of it guys. You have the most compelling presidential candidate you&#8217;ve had since perhaps John F. Kennedy. Almost every conditional &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/democrats-need-to-relax/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Failure of Empathy</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/failure-of-empathy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was early and he&#8217;s modified his views somewhat (and somewhat not), but young state senator Barack Obama couldn&#8217;t have been more mistaken about the causes and conditions of the 9/11 attacks.]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Plan: Does This Work?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/obamas-plan-does-this-work/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/obama-and-the-fate-of-criticism/</link>
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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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