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            <title><![CDATA[Why Democrats Are Smiling]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The elections may have been a mixed bag for the White House, but they certainly didn't signal a Republican renaissance. Far from it-the party's "grassroots patriots" are now headed for war against the moderate apostates.
While the Democratic brand is...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Speech of His Life-Again]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Liberals are suspicious. The GOP is wailing on him. Congress is paralyzed. Eric Alterman on what's at stake on health care-and why all is not yet lost. 
For a fellow who won a sweeping electoral victory with large majorities in both houses of...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How E.L. Doctorow Does It]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[On the release of his new novel Homer & Langley, Eric Alterman talks to the great novelist about how he travels back in time and slips into the imaginations of his characters.
Some writers enjoy talking about works-in-progress, but most do not. Other...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's Fake Bipartisanship]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Is the president delusional to hope for bipartisanship in the face of Republican demagoguery over health care? Far from it, says Eric Alterman. Obama's using a strategy honed in last fall's election.
Barack Obama says he still hopes the health-care...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:36:09 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Health-Care Wimps]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Obama may be impervious to the demons of 1994, but his party is still haunted by the failure of Hillarycare. Eric Alterman on why the Democrats need conquer their fear to win this health-care battle.
What is the problem with the Democrats? Why, with...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:34:20 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sonia's Kabuki Confirmation]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Without any objectionable cases in her past, all Republicans can really come up with is their particularly virulent brand of identity politics.
When Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) informed Sonia Sotomayor on Monday that "unless you have a complete meltdown,...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:16:55 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Cheney's Shadow Government]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ For centuries, the vice president had no official role, says Eric Alterman, and this weekend's revelations make it clear that Dick Cheney took advantage of that to launch a personal, unaccountable branch of government.
John Adams once called the vice...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:48:04 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Defending Sarah Palin]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[How can anyone spin Palin's sudden decision to ditch Alaska? The Daily Beast's Eric Alterman finds the barracuda's biggest GOP fans calling it "brilliant," "shrewd," and a big first step toward the White House.
Say what you will about the...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:04:53 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Cool Is Franken?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Not only does Al Franken's hard-fought victory give Democrats a magical 60 seats, it gives the Senate its first genuinely funny ex-comedian. Eric Alterman shares memories of his friend and former neighbor. 
Senator Franken? As long as it has taken,...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Death of the Neocons]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Paul Wolfowitz, Robert Kagan and the same old crew of discredited neoconservatives who pushed America into Iraq have returned again to chastise President Obama for not force-feeding Iran their democracy. That not even other Republicans are biting might...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 22 Jun 2009 06:51:27 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bibi's Bait-and-Switch]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[With today's speech, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could have had his Nixon-in-China moment. Instead, says Eric Alterman, he chose to ignore Obama's message from Cairo-and seal his political fate despite his conditional acceptance of a...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:22:56 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Joe the Volcano]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[America's most mercurial, least responsible senator is up to his old tricks, threatening to shut down the Senate to block the release of the torture photos. Eric Alterman on why Obama should steer clear of Lieberman's blackmail tactics.
What to do...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:29:51 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Osama Steals from Obama's Playbook]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ By lumping Obama in with Bush, bin Laden is borrowing from the new president's own campaign strategy. But persuading fence-sitting potential jihadists that O. is another W. will be a challenge.
Osama bin Laden, among others, has his work cut out for...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:35:39 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Truth About Abortion]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Pro-life extremists imagine a country awash in abortions, but they are in fact much harder to procure than most people realize. Eric Alterman reveals the truth about abortions in America. 
The Obama M.O. is to speak conspicuously respectfully of...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:41:20 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Abbas Comes to Washington]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Thursday's Obama-Abbas White House summit presented the United States with a quandary: what to do with a potential peace partner whose only asset is that he's breathing.
Mahmoud Abbas' White House drop-by looked quite different from that of Bibi...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 28 May 2009 06:29:11 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - Book]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/beast-board/item/1147///]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[I'd like to recommend The Saint and The Sultan, by Paul Moses, just published by Doubleday. Paul is a hard-driving journalist, rather than a scholar of religion, which for my purposes, is a good thing, because he jumps into the story of St. Francis of...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:41:21 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - Music]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA["Charlie Poole didn't write the songs he performed and recorded-they were the popular, sacred, and standard tunes of his time. Charlie may not have written the songs, but he certainly owned them-that is to say, made them his own."  With these words,...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:13:24 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - Book]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Sensitive fellow that I may be, I go for chick lit far more than one would expect, and so I was not at all dreading picking up Deborah Copaken Kogan's new book. Like a lot of people, I love Shutterbabe but that was such terrific material, I did not...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:17:21 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - Book]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/beast-board/item/908///]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[I've been listening to Arthur Phillips' new book The Song&nbsp;Is You on my iPod, downloaded from audible.com. It's a risky proposition for me because the book is a love story told through the metaphor of an iPod and I am scarily attached to my own,...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:52:33 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - Film]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/beast-board/item/257///]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[The Film, The Secrets which is playing at the Israeli film festival in New York, but is about to open elsewhere stars Fanny Ardent along with a group of mostly young Israeli first-time actresses in a movie of incredible beauty, sensitivity, and...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:11:10 -0400]]></pubDate>
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