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		<title>What&#8217;s wrong in Afghanistan?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent turmoil surrounding the re-election of President Karzai underscores that the government of Afghanistan has not attained the transparency and stability to win the basic fight against corruption, let alone drug trafficking and other threats to the peace, without help. The U.S. administration has been supporting and encouraging Afghan efforts to implement various UN [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=obamesque.wordpress.com&blog=2830139&post=734&subd=obamesque&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[For-profit insurance is unique to the U.S. health care system. No other developed country has a profit motive warping the payment of health care, driving up costs.  That&#8217;s arguably the key reason Americans spend a much higher share of personal income on health care, and why small business owners shoulder a greater share of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=obamesque.wordpress.com&blog=2830139&post=726&subd=obamesque&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does this &#8220;public option&#8221; lack critical mass?</title>
		<link>http://obamesque.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/does-this-public-option-lack-critical-mass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Proving that even the most eloquent, inspirational leader in Washington still has to deal with business as usual in the Congress, Senator Reid has announced that a bill approaching what President Obama has been articulating since he was just a candidate for the office is poised to make it to the Senate floor &#8211; over [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=obamesque.wordpress.com&blog=2830139&post=719&subd=obamesque&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who has government-run health care, and who could use it?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
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Get a Widget
To add a widget that counts uninsured Americans for your own blog or Web site, click the &#8220;Get &#38; Share&#8221; button below the widget. Because WordPress takes exception to certain scripts, this is a screen capture, not the actual widget&#8230; just go here. I know, it&#8217;s &#8220;kinda lame.&#8221; I&#8217;ve tried several things to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=obamesque.wordpress.com&blog=2830139&post=693&subd=obamesque&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Income Redistribution: The Tax Myth Debunked</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
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Before those of you who are firmly in the middle class get to feeling smug about the rich getting all the breaks, understand that the figures I&#8217;m about to share show that you&#8217;re doing better than those poorer than you, too. The focus first is on one midwestern state, to keep the facts and figures [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=obamesque.wordpress.com&blog=2830139&post=684&subd=obamesque&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in April the Senate agreed on budget reconciliation rules to move an education measure forward with 50 votes instead of having to break a filibuster with 60. And now Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), the newly appointed chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee,  is preparing for just that approach.

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		<title>there are still those who would try to kill reform at any cost</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;For the first time ever, all five committees in Congress responsible for health reform have passed a version of legislation,&#8221; President Obama said in his weekly radio address on October 17, 2009. He went on to note that despite hurdles, &#8220;we are closer to reforming the health care system than we have ever been in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=obamesque.wordpress.com&blog=2830139&post=643&subd=obamesque&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s talk about &#8220;race&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you&#8217;ve probably learned, Louisiana magistrate Keith Bardwell, a Justice of the Peace, recently refused to grant a marriage license to an interracial couple out of &#8220;concern&#8221; for the effect(s) on any children born of that relationship.
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		<description><![CDATA[We can&#8217;t know exactly what the founding fathers had in mind with the 1st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, but the story below explains a lot of the impunity (and arguably double standards, and faux outrage,) we&#8217;ve seen from the Fox network over the past 6 years or so.
In February 2003, a Florida Court of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=obamesque.wordpress.com&blog=2830139&post=625&subd=obamesque&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2010 elections taking shape now in MN</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a month remaining until election day 2009, incumbent Minneapolis Mayor Raymond &#8220;R.T.&#8221; Rybak is focusing his attention and energy on his re-election bid in the largest city in the state. But many of the people that persuaded him to be the first mayor to join the &#8220;Draft Obama&#8221; movement back in early 2007 are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=obamesque.wordpress.com&blog=2830139&post=609&subd=obamesque&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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