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            <title><![CDATA[Behind the Democratic Wipeout]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The GOP built its victories in Virginia and New Jersey on financial anxieties. The Daily Beast's Peter Beinart on why the economy drove voters to the polls-and what the results say about 2010.
After Republican victories in Virginia and New Jersey and...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Hope Amid the Rubble]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The rising body count in Pakistan, where a bomber killed 34 Monday, suggests the terrorists are winning. But Peter Beinart argues the more people Al Qaeda and the Taliban kill, the more the region turns against them. 
No matter how many stupid...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why the Democrats Should Lose]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  Tuesday's elections are a referendum on Obama's first year, right? But The Daily Beast's Peter Beinart argues if the Democrats don't take a hit, the White House isn't doing its job.
Here's a secret: Most of the people you see yapping on cable TV...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The GOP's Jewish Slur]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Anti-Defamation League is up in arms over two South Carolina Republicans' revival of an old stereotype. Peter Beinart asks: Is calling Jews thrifty really so offensive?
This week, in an act of vicious anti-Semitism, Edwin O. Merwin Jr. and James...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Biden: The New Rumsfeld]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[With the administration split on Afghanistan, liberals like Joe Biden support a drawdown and shun nation building. Peter Beinart asks: Wasn't that the Rumsfeld view in 2002?
In January 2002, soon after America overthrew the Taliban, then-Senator...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Liberals, Lay Off Obama]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[He's on his way to an historic health-care win. The stimulus was huge. The market's back. The left should stop complaining the president hasn't accomplished anything.
Maybe that Saturday Night Live skit wasn't so funny after all. Four days after Fred...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Petraeus for President?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The GOP, torn apart by extremists, needs a hero to step up and lead the party. Peter Beinart thinks General David Petraeus is a lot like Ike.
Remember last winter, when liberals were complaining that Barack Obama had kept Bush family consigliere...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's Nobel Farce]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ President Obama said on Friday morning he was "most surprised and deeply humbled" by being awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. "To be honest, I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who have been...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:15:50 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bury the Vietnam Analogy]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Exactly eight years after Bush sent troops to Afghanistan, critics are once again calling it Obama's Vietnam. In his debut column, The Daily Beast's senior political writer Peter Beinart on why there's no real comparison.
"Those who can remember the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Will Hillary's Gambit Work?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In her big speech Wednesday, Hillary Clinton told the world she is staking out a foreign policy that was more inclusive than George W. Bush's. But is it too na&iuml;ve?
Read more analysis on Hillary's speech from other Daily Beast writers.
Near the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Finally Some Straight Talk on the Deficit]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[After years of evasiveness by the GOP, finally some frank talk about deficits from Obama and even from Hillary in China.
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton each said something smart about the budget deficit last week. Let's hope Americans were...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ignore the Republicans]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[It doesn't matter what the GOP says about the stimulus package or how they vote on it. If the economy is better off in four years, they lose.
Does anyone remember how many Democrats voted for Ronald Reagan's tax cuts in 1981? Of course not, because it...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 09 Feb 2009 06:44:15 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Aslan vs. Beinart: A Daily Beast Debate]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As the Obama administration focuses on the Middle East, Daily Beast columnists Reza Aslan and Peter Beinart debate whether democracy truly works in the region, how effective George Mitchell can be as a mediator, and the perils of free elections.
Part...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The End of the Culture Wars]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Forget Iraq and the economy. Barack Obama's greatest feat may be ending the ruinous, decades-long battle over race and religion that has plagued the Democratic Party. 
For several decades now, analysts have divided American politics into three...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 26 Jan 2009 05:55:38 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bush's Last Stand]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[From forgotten scandals to "The Last Dick," read the entire Daily Beast Farewell to Bush Chronicles.
The outgoing president's cosmic and often hypocritical parting words last night.
Wow, it was awful. George W. Bush's valedictory speech was like a...]]></description>
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