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<channel><title><![CDATA[washingtonpost.com - David S. Broder -- Washington Post Politics Writer]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032401502.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><description><![CDATA[David S. Broder writes about politics and policy for The Washington Post.]]></description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com?nav=rss</link><url>http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif </url></image>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Management 101 for Senators ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/25/AR2008072502760.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/25/AR2008072502760.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ One of the wisest men I ever knew in Washington was the late James H. Rowe Jr. He came out of Montana, went to Harvard Law School and was recruited by Felix Frankfurter for a job on FDR's White House staff. In later years, he became a counselor to Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey and other Democrats of that generation. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Management]]></category><category><![CDATA[101]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Senators]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bradley H. Patterson]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[James H. Rowe Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hubert Humphrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lyndon Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Felix Frankfurter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard Law School]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Nixon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eisenhower Executive Office Building]]></category><category><![CDATA[Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Brookings Institution]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Homeland Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[USA Freedom Corps]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Obama's Tour de Force ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/23/AR2008072302903.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/23/AR2008072302903.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It made no sense when Barack Obama left the country on his nine-day overseas tour for some of my fellow columnists to describe it as a high-risk venture. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Obama's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tour]]></category><category><![CDATA[de]]></category><category><![CDATA[Force]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nouri al-Maliki]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Petraeus]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baghdad]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chuck Hagel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jack Reed]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kuwait]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of State]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Deputy Dilemma For McCain ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/18/AR2008071802607.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/18/AR2008071802607.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ On Wednesday morning, The Post published a poll of registered voters giving Barack Obama an eight-point lead -- largely because the voters said they trusted him more than John McCain on handling their No. 1 issue, the economy, by an astounding 19 percentage points. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deputy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dilemma]]></category><category><![CDATA[For]]></category><category><![CDATA[McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Bloomberg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bobby Jindal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Newt Gingrich]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rob Portman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alan Greenspan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Warren Buffett]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cincinnati]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House of Representatives]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[Louisiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Listening To the Governors ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/16/AR2008071602432.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/16/AR2008071602432.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ PHILADELPHIA -- When the luck of the draw made him the chairman of the National Governors Association in this, the centennial year of its first meeting -- with President Theodore Roosevelt -- Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty knew how and where he wanted to celebrate the occasion.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302661302514" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302661302514" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Listening]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Governors]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cokie Roberts]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Sununu]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Dukakis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Theodore Roosevelt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Pawlenty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daniel J. Evans]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dirk A. Kempthorne]]></category><category><![CDATA[Doug Wilder]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edwin Edwards]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Voinovich]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hershey (Pennsylvania)]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Engler]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Linwood Holton]]></category><category><![CDATA[M. Jodi Rell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Leavitt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nelson A. Rockefeller]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Orleans]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Norton Smith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roy Romer]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Philadelphia Orchestra]]></category><category><![CDATA[Louisiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Virgin Islands]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Governors Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Obama's Enigma ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/11/AR2008071102545.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/11/AR2008071102545.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ John McCain is the candidate who actually had experience as a wartime flier, but Barack Obama is the one who has most successfully adapted a favorite tactic of those intrepid aviators. When the pilots were over a target heavily defended by antiaircraft guns, they would release a cloud of fine metal scraps, hoping to confuse the aim of the shells or missiles being fired in their direction. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Obama's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Enigma]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Orleans]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Hart]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Nixon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Selma (Alabama)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican National Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Appalachia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Fixing How We Go to War ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/09/AR2008070901936.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/09/AR2008070901936.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Just shy of eight years after they squared off in the Florida recount battle, James A. Baker III and Warren Christopher have joined forces to clean up one of the ugly legacies of Vietnam -- the misguided piece of legislation called the War Powers Act. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Fixing]]></category><category><![CDATA[How]]></category><category><![CDATA[We]]></category><category><![CDATA[Go]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[War]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Gore]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joint Congressional Consultation Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[National War Powers Commission]]></category><category><![CDATA[Southeast Asia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Decider on the High Court ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/04/AR2008070402090.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/04/AR2008070402090.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The most dramatic stories in any field of competitive endeavor are those that recount events that almost never happened. It's the scoreless ballgames that end with a walk-off homer in the bottom of the ninth that linger in the psyches of winners and losers -- not the 9-3 walkovers. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Decider]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[High]]></category><category><![CDATA[Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anthony Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Douglas Ginsburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Bork]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Gore]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Souter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edwin Meese]]></category><category><![CDATA[George H.W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gerald Ford]]></category><category><![CDATA[Howard Baker]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lee Epstein]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lewis F. Powell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sacramento]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sandra Day O'Connor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard Law School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stanford University]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Court of Appeals]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ One Nation No More? ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/02/AR2008070202352.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/02/AR2008070202352.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Just in time for Independence Day, a conservative think tank has delivered a controversial report asking whether America's national identity is eroding under the pressure of population diversity and educational slackness.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302661302836" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302661302836" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[One]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nation]]></category><category><![CDATA[No]]></category><category><![CDATA[More?]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Nixon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas Jefferson]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Army ROTC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Dumbing Down the Presidency ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/27/AR2008062702770.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/27/AR2008062702770.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ People campaign for the presidency by talking their heads off. By the time the winner reaches the White House, the habit is so ingrained that it is impossible to shake. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Dumbing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Down]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Presidency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Elvin T. Lim]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bloomington]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeffrey Tulis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Woodrow Wilson]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peggy Noonan]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Texas System]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wesleyan University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Voting's Neglected Scandal ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/25/AR2008062501944.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/25/AR2008062501944.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ When Barack Obama decided last week to throw off the constraints on campaign spending that go with the acceptance of public financing, he was rightly criticized for rigging the system in his favor. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Voting's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Neglected]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scandal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marc Dunkelman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic Leadership Council]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alabama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hawaii]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iowa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Louisiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mississippi]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Jersey]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Mexico]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[West Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Getting to Know Obama ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/20/AR2008062002275.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/20/AR2008062002275.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ We are barely at the beginning of the long period in which most Americans will give their first serious scrutiny to the presidential candidates and decide whether Barack Obama or John McCain will get their vote. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Getting]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Know]]></category><category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Gibbs]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob Bauer]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Plouffe]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[ABC Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Foreign Policy's Best Hope ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/18/AR2008061802631.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/18/AR2008061802631.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Judging by the rhetoric coming out of the Obama and McCain campaigns this week, the United States is fated to endure another four years of bitter foreign policy partisanship, whoever wins this election. The rival nominees clashed on the proper approach to the war on terrorism; the way to handle the world's major trouble spots, including Iraq; and the approach America should take on everyone from Raúl Castro to the Iranian mullahs.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302661303107" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302661303107" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Foreign]]></category><category><![CDATA[Policy's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Best]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hope]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Lugar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Biden]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carl Levin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jesse Helms]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Raul Castro]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of State]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations]]></category><category><![CDATA[Delaware]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Perot, Back On the Charts ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/13/AR2008061302635.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/13/AR2008061302635.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Sixteen years after he shook up American politics by launching an impromptu campaign for president, Ross Perot is about to dip a toe back into the public debates. And, yes, he's bringing his charts with him to make his point. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Perot,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Back]]></category><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ross Perot]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Walker]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dallas]]></category><category><![CDATA[George H.W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Rubin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Many Gifts of Tim Russert ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/13/AR2008061303391.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/13/AR2008061303391.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ When Tim Russert took over "Meet the Press" in 1991, he was already well known to political reporters as the shrewd, inventive and very funny flack for Pat Moynihan and Mario Cuomo -- a spokesman almost as quotable as those two marvelously gifted speakers. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Many]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gifts]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russert]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sitting Tim]]></category><category><![CDATA[NBC Universal Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Betsy Fischer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ross Perot]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Clinton's Remarkable Run ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/11/AR2008061103169.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/11/AR2008061103169.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ When Hillary Clinton announced for president in January 2007, she did everything to play down her gender short of dressing herself in men's clothes. In a taped video, with no audience and no family members, she presented herself first and foremost as a senator and experienced Washington hand, ready to fight for Democratic goals and unintimidated by the GOP. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Clinton's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Remarkable]]></category><category><![CDATA[Run]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ann Lewis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edward M. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Dakota]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Let the Debates Begin ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/06/AR2008060603140.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/06/AR2008060603140.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It's pretty obvious what was the most overhyped political story of the past week. The honors clearly go to the Hillary Clinton drama: Will she stand down? Will she endorse? Will she deign to accept the vice presidency? Will she join a monastic order and move to a commune? What a lot of nonsense.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302661303330" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302661303330" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Let]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Debates]]></category><category><![CDATA[Begin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jimmy Carter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gerald Ford]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Gore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barry Goldwater]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denver]]></category><category><![CDATA[George H.W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lyndon Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Nixon]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Victor on His Heels ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/04/AR2008060403050.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/04/AR2008060403050.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ From Iowa in January through South Dakota and Montana in June, Barack Obama has enjoyed one of the great rides in American political history, breaking precedents and setting records along the way. It has been an extraordinary journey, magnified, not diminished, by the gritty, resilient performance of his main rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton. On that journey, he has given Americans the gift of a new and hopeful chapter in our troubled racial history. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Victor]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[His]]></category><category><![CDATA[Heels]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeremiah Wright]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Dakota]]></category><category><![CDATA[Des Moines]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gerald Ford]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic National Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iowa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican National Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kentucky]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category><category><![CDATA[West Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Reality vs. the Mythmakers ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/30/AR2008053002519.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/30/AR2008053002519.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ As dramatic as the contests have been for the Democratic and Republican presidential nominations, they have not been enough to satisfy the mythmakers. With the general election imminent, the fiction writers in both parties insist on versions of the battle that bear little resemblance to reality. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Reality]]></category><category><![CDATA[vs.]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mythmakers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeremiah Wright]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pew Research Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Project for Excellence in Journalism]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shorenstein Center on the Press]]></category><category><![CDATA[The New York Times Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Hamilton Jordan's Message to Obama ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/28/AR2008052802918.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/28/AR2008052802918.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A year after Jimmy Carter lost his reelection race to Ronald Reagan, Hamilton Jordan, Carter's former White House chief of staff, sat down for a lengthy interview with scholars at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Hamilton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jordan's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Message]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jimmy Carter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iowa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hamilton Jordan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eugene McCarthy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Evan Bayh]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fred Harris]]></category><category><![CDATA[George McGovern]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hubert Humphrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Edwards (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Morris Udall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sargent Shriver]]></category><category><![CDATA[Walter Mondale]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Let the Veepstakes Begin ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/23/AR2008052302430.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/23/AR2008052302430.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ With perfect timing, John McCain has signaled the opening of the vice presidential speculation season, just as the last dregs of suspense are being drained from the marathon presidential contest.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302661303647" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302661303647" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Let]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Veepstakes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Begin]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charlie Crist]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Nixon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spiro Agnew]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sedona (Arizona)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bobby Jindal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edward Rendell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hamilton Jordan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jack Reed]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jimmy Carter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jody Powell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lyndon Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Bloomberg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rob Portman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ted Strickland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Pawlenty]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rhode Island]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ No Other Like Him ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/20/AR2008052001570.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/20/AR2008052001570.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Not since the day almost 45 years ago, when word reached Washington that his brother John had been cut down in Dallas, has there been news about an individual that struck so deep a blow to so many in this capital. The bulletin from Massachusetts General Hospital about Sen. Ted Kennedy was at once a personal tragedy and a political cataclysm. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[No]]></category><category><![CDATA[Other]]></category><category><![CDATA[Like]]></category><category><![CDATA[Him]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edward M. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dallas]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mary McGrory]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philip Hart]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Massachusetts General Hospital]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Wall Of Worry For the GOP ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/16/AR2008051603433.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/16/AR2008051603433.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ One way of measuring the current miserable state of the Republican Party is to note that in the past 10 weeks, 55 years of Republican seniority in the House of Representatives were wiped out in three special elections. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Worry]]></category><category><![CDATA[For]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mississippi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Cole]]></category><category><![CDATA[Louisiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House of Representatives]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dennis Hastert]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeremiah Wright]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jimmy Carter]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Anzalone]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Boehner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kentucky]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oklahoma]]></category><category><![CDATA[West Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ For Obama, a Lost Moment ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/14/AR2008051403087.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/14/AR2008051403087.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Barack Obama really didn't need a victory in West Virginia. He was already well on his way to wrapping up the Democratic nomination, and the 28 delegates at stake were not going to change that picture, no matter how that primary came out. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[For]]></category><category><![CDATA[Obama,]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lost]]></category><category><![CDATA[Moment]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edward M. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hubert Humphrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[West Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wisconsin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kenosha]]></category><category><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lyndon Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Milwaukee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Racine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Raleigh County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Byrd]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kentucky]]></category><category><![CDATA[Minnesota]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Smith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ben Smith]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Price of Delay ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/09/AR2008050902042.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/09/AR2008050902042.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Three days after last Tuesday's primaries seemingly tilted the Democratic presidential nomination decisively toward Barack Obama, the surprising fact was that almost half the party's senators had not announced a choice between him and Hillary Clinton. Twenty-one of the 49 Democratic senators were publicly silent as the last six primaries approached.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302661306314" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302661306314" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Price]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Delay]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Durbin]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hubert Humphrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Nixon]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pat Brown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Two Weeks of Trivia ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/07/AR2008050703188.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/07/AR2008050703188.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The endless Democratic presidential campaign has lurched from irrelevance to trivia, triggering a near-universal call to bring it to a halt. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Two]]></category><category><![CDATA[Weeks]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Trivia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeremiah Wright]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Gore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dennis Kucinich]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Kerry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wellesley College]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yale Law School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iowa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kentucky]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montana]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Dakota]]></category><category><![CDATA[West Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Clinton's Tough Path ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/02/AR2008050203320.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/02/AR2008050203320.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ On the day last week when Hillary Clinton suffered the first of two costly defections by Indiana superdelegates, I went to see an old friend working in her national campaign. I knew he was loyal to her, but I also calculated that if he were guaranteed anonymity, he would give me an honest answer to the vexing question: Does the Clinton camp still see any realistic way she can deny Barack Obama the Democratic nomination without blowing up the party? ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Clinton's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tough]]></category><category><![CDATA[Path]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baron Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeremiah Wright]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joe Andrew]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Pastor's Influence ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/30/AR2008043003252.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/30/AR2008043003252.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In his achingly slow steps toward repudiating the repugnant words of his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama has run the risk of serious political damage by leaving vague what it was that attracted him to this outspoken critic of American society. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pastor's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Influence]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeremiah Wright]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Coburn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illinois General Assembly]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Press Club]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oklahoma]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Not-So-Solid Republican South ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/25/AR2008042502782.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/25/AR2008042502782.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ TUPELO, Miss. -- While the eyes of the political world were focused on Pennsylvania last week, I played hooky for a day at the invitation of the Lee County Library and bumped into a story as revealing in its way as the latest round in the struggle between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Among other things, it explains why John McCain found it useful to spend last week touring poverty-stricken areas in the South, where Republicans rarely go.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302661311277" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302661311277" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Not-So-Solid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican]]></category><category><![CDATA[South]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roger Wicker]]></category><category><![CDATA[Travis Childers]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Greg Davis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dennis Hastert]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Orleans]]></category><category><![CDATA[Selma (Alabama)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lee County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Haley Barbour]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jamie Whitten]]></category><category><![CDATA[Little Rock]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lyndon Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martin Luther King Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Memphis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thad Cochran]]></category><category><![CDATA[Trent Lott]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lower Ninth Ward]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alabama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kentucky]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mississippi]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Democrats' Worst Nightmare ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/23/AR2008042302980.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/23/AR2008042302980.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ For battle-weary Democrats, the big news out of Pennsylvania is pretty simple: Their nightmare continues. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democrats']]></category><category><![CDATA[Worst]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nightmare]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Atlanta]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeremiah Wright]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Jersey]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Democrats' Damaging Brawl ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/18/AR2008041802702.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/18/AR2008041802702.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ As a rule, presidential elections are not won or lost by what happens in April. But last week, more and more Democratic officeholders and strategists were worrying out loud about the possibility that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are running themselves into trouble with their unending battle for the nomination. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Democrats']]></category><category><![CDATA[Damaging]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brawl]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[ABC Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Stephanopoulos]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeremiah Wright]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles Gibson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denver]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philadelphia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bosnia and Herzegovina]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Carolina]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ What Pennsylvania Voters Are Saying  ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/16/AR2008041602901.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/16/AR2008041602901.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ UPPER DUBLIN, Pa. -- For 40 of his 65 years, ever since he first registered, Martin Greenblatt has been voting Republican in this Philadelphia suburb. Through much of the past winter, the retired teacher considered himself a supporter of Rudy Giuliani. But when the former New York mayor quit the race without a single primary victory, Greenblatt made a radical decision. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[What]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category><category><![CDATA[Voters]]></category><category><![CDATA[Are]]></category><category><![CDATA[Saying]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martin Greenblatt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philadelphia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ellen Sharm]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fort Washington]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Francis Sapienza]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frank McMahon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harry Duerr]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kathleen Birchler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery County (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ron Paul]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rudolph Giuliani]]></category><category><![CDATA[Upper Dublin]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Question Petraeus Can't Answer ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/11/AR2008041103249.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/11/AR2008041103249.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ When Gen. David Petraeus came to The Post on Friday, he had already answered hundreds of questions in two days of hearings before the House and Senate about his assignment as commander of coalition forces in Iraq.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302661311735" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302661311735" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Question]]></category><category><![CDATA[Petraeus]]></category><category><![CDATA[Can't]]></category><category><![CDATA[Answer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Lugar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Petraeus]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Cody]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ryan Crocker]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Armed Forces]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Sports World in Foul Territory ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/09/AR2008040903402.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/09/AR2008040903402.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Having made a living for almost 50 years covering politics, I've never been under any illusions about where it stands in the larger scheme of things. Politics has its fans, but it holds nothing like the fascination that millions of Americans have with sports. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category><category><![CDATA[World]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Foul]]></category><category><![CDATA[Territory]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Basketball Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Collegiate Athletic Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[ESPN Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Cable Satellite Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Augusta]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tibet]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[Major League Baseball]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Hockey League]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ McCain's Manifesto ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/28/AR2008032802823.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/28/AR2008032802823.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ What Barack Obama tried to do with the sensitive issue of race, John McCain attempted last week on the no less important topic of foreign policy. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[McCain's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manifesto]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Black Sea]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guantanamo Bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeremiah Wright]]></category><category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pervez Musharraf]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philadelphia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Saddam Hussein]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category><category><![CDATA[G-8]]></category><category><![CDATA[India]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category><category><![CDATA[NATO]]></category><category><![CDATA[World Affairs Councils of America]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Prodigal Delegates ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/26/AR2008032602917.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/26/AR2008032602917.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Jim Naughton and John Mashek are two of the smartest political reporters of the past generation. Naughton is a veteran of the New York Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer and of the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla., a journalism think tank. Mashek came out of North Dakota and Texas and, after a distinguished career, retired from U.S. News & World Report. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prodigal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Delegates]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Naughton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Mashek]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic National Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denver]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Dakota]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[The New York Times Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Poynter Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[Austin (Texas)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clearwater]]></category><category><![CDATA[Houston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lyndon Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sam Rayburn]]></category><category><![CDATA[St. Petersburg]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Real Value Of Obama's Speech ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/21/AR2008032102554.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/21/AR2008032102554.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In the days following Barack Obama's address on race last week in Philadelphia, there was broad agreement among politicians and journalists that "A More Perfect Union," as he titled his speech, was the most important he has delivered since his keynote at the 2004 Democratic National Convention.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302661312030" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302661312030" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Real]]></category><category><![CDATA[Value]]></category><category><![CDATA[Of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Obama's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Speech]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeremiah Wright]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philadelphia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[YouTube Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lyndon Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martin Luther King Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Diego]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shelby Steele]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic National Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ McCain's Missed Opportunity ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/19/AR2008031902778.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/19/AR2008031902778.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ These are salad days for John McCain, touring world capitals with his buddies Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham, meeting foreign leaders and returning to Washington with his nomination secure and polls confirming that he is well positioned to challenge either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[McCain's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Missed]]></category><category><![CDATA[Opportunity]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Petraeus]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baghdad]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nouri al-Maliki]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cameron W. Barr]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Lieberman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cable News Network LP LLLP]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[John King]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lindsey Graham]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ryan Crocker]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda in Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ New Task for a Budget Straight-Talker ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/14/AR2008031403336.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/14/AR2008031403336.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It was sheer coincidence that Wednesday, David M. Walker's last day as comptroller general of the United States, was the same day that the House and Senate began to debate their budget resolutions for next year. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[New]]></category><category><![CDATA[Task]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Budget]]></category><category><![CDATA[Straight-Talker]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Walker]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Peterson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ross Perot]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category><category><![CDATA[OPEC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peterson Foundation]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Government Accountability Office]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Dream-Ticket Fantasy ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/12/AR2008031203397.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/12/AR2008031203397.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ One of the great surprises of my first presidential campaign, back in 1960, came on the final morning of the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles. Cecil Holland, a colleague at the old Washington Star, burst into our workspace, having discovered from his sources that Lyndon B. Johnson had just accepted John F. Kennedy's offer of the vice presidential nomination. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dream-Ticket]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fantasy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[John F. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lyndon Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rod Blagojevich]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category><category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mississippi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illinois Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Addison]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cecil Holland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eliot Spitzer]]></category><category><![CDATA[India Edwards]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Edwards (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Kerry]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic National Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Managing: An Affair Of States ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/07/AR2008030702835.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/07/AR2008030702835.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The drama of this winter's presidential campaign obscures the fact that for most of us, the government services that most directly affect our lives are delivered from state capitols or city halls.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302661312397" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302661312397" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Managing:]]></category><category><![CDATA[An]]></category><category><![CDATA[Affair]]></category><category><![CDATA[Of]]></category><category><![CDATA[States]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jennifer Granholm]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sonny Perdue]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rhode Island]]></category><category><![CDATA[Utah]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wyoming]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jon Corzine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lansing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitch Daniels]]></category><category><![CDATA[Neal Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pew Center on the States and Governing]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Office of Management and Budget]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Cliffhanger for Democrats ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/05/AR2008030502890.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/05/AR2008030502890.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Last fall, long before the first vote was cast in the Democratic presidential contest, Rep. Rahm Emanuel of Illinois told me in an interview that he thought Barack Obama could beat Hillary Rodham Clinton. But Emanuel added an important proviso, saying Obama could win only "if he runs a perfect campaign." ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cliffhanger]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rahm Emanuel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edward Rendell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iowa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mississippi]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Jersey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rhode Island]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vermont]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wyoming]]></category><category><![CDATA[ABC Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Gore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda in Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Columbus]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic Caucus]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denver]]></category><category><![CDATA[George H.W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hubert Humphrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Huckabee]]></category><category><![CDATA[NAFTA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Antonio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ted Strickland]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Clinton's Flaw: A Failure to Connect ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/29/AR2008022902787.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/29/AR2008022902787.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In the final moments of what may turn out to have been the last debate of the Democratic presidential campaign, Barack Obama paid gracious tribute to his opponent, Hillary Clinton. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Clinton's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Flaw:]]></category><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Failure]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Connect]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iowa]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Jersey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cable News Network LP LLLP]]></category><category><![CDATA[NBC Universal Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brian Williams]]></category><category><![CDATA[Campbell Brown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carl Bernstein]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edward Rendell]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Portsmouth]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Antonio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brooke Army Medical Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Governors Read the Race ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/27/AR2008022703180.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/27/AR2008022703180.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ While the nation's governors were in Washington from Saturday through Tuesday for their winter meeting, the campaigns of John McCain and Barack Obama accomplished some important political business. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Governors]]></category><category><![CDATA[Read]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Race]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edward Rendell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ted Strickland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Janet Napolitano]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jennifer Granholm]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martin O'Malley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitch Daniels]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Pawlenty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kansas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Minnesota]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dan Balz]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Gilligan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kathleen Sebelius]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Sanford]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[MoveOn.org]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican Governors Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Comeback For the Crime Issue ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/22/AR2008022202174.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/22/AR2008022202174.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ From Pakistan to Serbia, and recurrently in Iraq, the headlines point to the dangers of the world -- most notably the threat of terrorism. And yet when the polling firm Cooper &amp; Secrest Associates asked 1,139 Americans in December which threat they took most seriously, 69 percent chose violent crime and only 19 percent named terrorist attack.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302661312875" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302661312875" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Comeback]]></category><category><![CDATA[For]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category><category><![CDATA[Issue]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Delaware]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kansas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Biden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kathleen Sebelius]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martin O'Malley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rachel Laser]]></category><category><![CDATA[Theodore Roosevelt]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Four Rules That Could Be Decisive ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/20/AR2008022002267.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/20/AR2008022002267.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The details of the process for choosing and allocating delegates to the parties' national conventions are usually sleep-inducing to all but the most dedicated political junkies. But in this year's Democratic race, as Barack Obama searches for the last votes he needs to defeat Hillary Clinton, the rules of the delegate game have become more and more important. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Four]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rules]]></category><category><![CDATA[That]]></category><category><![CDATA[Could]]></category><category><![CDATA[Be]]></category><category><![CDATA[Decisive]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Hart]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic National Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hawaii]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iowa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Jersey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wisconsin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denver]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Divided Labor Loyalties ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/15/AR2008021502948.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/15/AR2008021502948.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ When Walter Mondale was threatened by the insurgent candidacy of Gary Hart in the 1984 Democratic presidential contest, he turned to his friends at the AFL-CIO for help, and their endorsement was instrumental in pulling him through to the nomination. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Divided]]></category><category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loyalties]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[AFL-CIO]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nevada]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iowa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Missouri]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oklahoma]]></category><category><![CDATA[Utah]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gerald McEntee]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Edwards (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Service Employees International Union]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alabama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arkansas]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Connecticut]]></category><category><![CDATA[Delaware]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Jersey]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Mexico]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tennessee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wisconsin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Gore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Bradley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gary Hart]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Sweeney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Walter Mondale]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Federation of Teachers]]></category><category><![CDATA[NAFTA]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Did-Something Congress ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/13/AR2008021302784.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/13/AR2008021302784.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The voters' message is getting through, not only in settling the fights for the Republican and Democratic nominations but in changing the mind-set of Washington. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Did-Something]]></category><category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lamar Alexander]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barney Frank]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Boehner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tennessee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harry Reid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Henry M. Paulson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitch McConnell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Committee on Finance]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Strategic Choice for Democrats ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/08/AR2008020802556.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/08/AR2008020802556.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ When this remarkable political year began, many Democrats were expecting a smooth passage to a historic nomination and a relatively easy presidential victory. That is hardly the case today.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302661313290" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302661313290" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Strategic]]></category><category><![CDATA[Choice]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iowa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nevada]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Huckabee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ron Paul]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Formidable McCain ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/06/AR2008020603723.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/06/AR2008020603723.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The continuing drama of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination should not diminish what John McCain has accomplished on the Republican side of this campaign. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Formidable]]></category><category><![CDATA[McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[Janet Napolitano]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category><category><![CDATA[Louisiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Missouri]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Jersey]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wisconsin]]></category><category><![CDATA[ABC Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Don Fowler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gail Kaufman]]></category><category><![CDATA[George H.W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Hunt]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Edwards (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Dukakis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Huckabee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Newt Gingrich]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Hart]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rush Limbaugh]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Hibbits]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic National Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Super Tuesday's Shallowness ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/01/AR2008020102664.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/01/AR2008020102664.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Now that the long-anticipated "Tsunami Tuesday" is almost upon us, the full folly of choosing presidential candidates in what amounts to a national primary has become apparent to everyone. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Super]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tuesday's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shallowness]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Phoenix]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Delaware]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iowa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nevada]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Dakota]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wisconsin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cable News Network LP LLLP]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Wiley & Sons Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Huckabee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ron Paul]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
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