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<channel><title><![CDATA[washingtonpost.com - Eugene Robinson -- Washington Post Columnist (washingtonpost.com)]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032402899.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><description><![CDATA[Eugene Robinson writes about politics, policy, culture and international issues for The Washington Post's op-ed page.]]></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[ Making His Own Luck ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/24/AR2008072403415.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/24/AR2008072403415.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It was as if the fates had conspired to give Barack Obama the kind of foreign affairs photo op that a campaign manager would see only in his wildest dreams. Damp, gray Berlin was alive with bright sunshine. A crowd that police estimated at more than 200,000 filled the heart of the city. They cheered not only when Obama talked about global warming or called for a world without nuclear weapons but also when he spoke of the fight against terrorism and the need for Europe to remain engaged in Afghanistan and Iraq. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eugene Robinson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Making]]></category><category><![CDATA[His]]></category><category><![CDATA[Own]]></category><category><![CDATA[Luck]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Berlin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baghdad]]></category><category><![CDATA[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jean Cocteau]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Orleans]]></category><category><![CDATA[Samuel Goldwyn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Seneca]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boeing 757]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gulf of Mexico]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hurricane Dolly]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mississippi River]]></category><category><![CDATA[Victory Column]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Timelines in the Sand ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/21/AR2008072102361.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/21/AR2008072102361.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It's not a "timetable" for extricating U.S troops from Iraq that George W. Bush is suddenly talking about, and heaven help anyone who accuses him of proposing a "timeline." No, the Decider says he is now amenable to a "time horizon," which apparently is a whole different kind of time thing -- not at all like the sensible course of action that Democrats and other critics of the Iraq occupation have been demanding. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eugene Robinson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Timelines]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sand]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nouri al-Maliki]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baghdad]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Petraeus]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Gates]]></category><category><![CDATA[CBS Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Der Spiegel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Taliban]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Armed Forces]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Special Brand Of Patriotism ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/03/AR2008070302450.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/03/AR2008070302450.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Anyone who took U.S. history in high school ought to know that one of the five men killed in the Boston Massacre, the atrocity that helped ignite the American Revolution, was a runaway slave named Crispus Attucks. The question the history books rarely consider is: Why? ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eugene Robinson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Special]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brand]]></category><category><![CDATA[Of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patriotism]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dorie Miller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Crispus Attucks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michelle Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colin Powell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edward R. Collins]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harold I. Robinson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeremiah Wright]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington National Cemetery]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pearl Harbor]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Navy]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Pacific]]></category><category><![CDATA[North America]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Bush's Parting Shots? ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/30/AR2008063001903.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/30/AR2008063001903.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ George W. Bush's presidency seems exhausted and irrelevant, but that's a dangerous illusion. The Decider remains in command of the world's most advanced and powerful military force, and he has just a few months to tie up what he might consider loose ends -- a thought that is sobering enough to send Amy Winehouse to rehab.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302410657714" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302410657714" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eugene Robinson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Bush's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Parting]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shots?]]></category><category><![CDATA[Will Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jalal Talabani]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Amy Winehouse]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kim Jong-il]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jimmy Carter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]]></category><category><![CDATA[Osama bin Laden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pyongyang]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abu Ghraib]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Camp David]]></category><category><![CDATA[Central Intelligence Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guantanamo Bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Beach Boys]]></category><category><![CDATA[The New Yorker Magazine]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Taliban]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Armed Forces]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Deadly Consequences -- But the Right Call ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/26/AR2008062603656.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/26/AR2008062603656.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Few landmark Supreme Court rulings have been so widely predicted as yesterday's decision striking down the District of Columbia's ban on handguns. The mere fact that the court agreed to hear the case was a pretty good indication that the justices were itching to make some kind of big statement about the Second Amendment. Questions from the bench during oral arguments in March left little doubt as to which way the wind was blowing. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eugene Robinson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Deadly]]></category><category><![CDATA[Consequences]]></category><category><![CDATA[--]]></category><category><![CDATA[But]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Right]]></category><category><![CDATA[Call]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Race in the Sunlight ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/23/AR2008062301831.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/23/AR2008062301831.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The question isn't whether race will be an issue in the general election campaign between Barack Obama and John McCain. Race is already an issue, even if it is largely confined to the shadow world of implication and coded language. Obama is now dragging the race issue into the sunlight -- a move that has to be considered both risky and inevitable. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eugene Robinson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Race]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sunlight]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michelle Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jacksonville]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Kerry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lee Atwater]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Nixon]]></category><category><![CDATA[ABC Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Performance Worth Every Exclamation Point ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/19/AR2008061903028.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/19/AR2008061903028.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It's easy to make fun of the pretentious verbiage that's used to inflate sporting events -- and the individuals who take part in them -- beyond all earthly reason: "the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat," "the limits of human endurance," "the heart of a champion," blah blah blah. It's easy to point out that professional athletes, by and large, are absurdly pampered and privileged, and that they are paid their fortunes not to work but to play. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eugene Robinson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Performance]]></category><category><![CDATA[Worth]]></category><category><![CDATA[Every]]></category><category><![CDATA[Exclamation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Point]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tiger Woods]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jack Nicklaus]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rocco Mediate]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Outsider's Insider ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/16/AR2008061602042.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/16/AR2008061602042.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Tim Russert knew he was a big deal -- he had a healthy ego and an accurate sense of his accomplishments. But I'm confident that he would be stunned at the magnitude of the reaction to his death, especially among people who never met him. There's a sense that something more than the man has been lost.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302410700026" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302410700026" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eugene Robinson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Outsider's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Insider]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Russert]]></category><category><![CDATA[MSNBC Interactive News LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Victory for the Rule of the Law ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/12/AR2008061203473.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/12/AR2008061203473.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It shouldn't be necessary for the Supreme Court to tell the president that he can't have people taken into custody, spirited to a remote prison camp and held indefinitely, with no legal right to argue that they've been unjustly imprisoned -- not even on grounds of mistaken identity. But the president in question is, sigh, George W. Bush, who has taken a chainsaw to the rule of law with the same manic gusto he displays while clearing brush at his Texas ranch. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eugene Robinson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Victory]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rule]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Law]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guantanamo Bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anthony M. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Antonin Scalia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Clinton's Grace Note ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/09/AR2008060902240.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/09/AR2008060902240.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Hillary Rodham Clinton's speech Saturday conceding the Democratic presidential nomination to Barack Obama couldn't have been classier -- and couldn't have been more auspicious for the party's chances of capturing the White House in November. It might have taken her a few days, but she delivered. Big-time. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eugene Robinson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Clinton's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Grace]]></category><category><![CDATA[Note]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Building Museum]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican National Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iowa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ What He Overcame ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/05/AR2008060503433.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/05/AR2008060503433.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ There will be plenty of time to chart Barack Obama's attempt to navigate a course between the exigencies of the old politics and the promise of the new, between yesterday and tomorrow, youth and experience, black and white. For now, take a moment to consider the mind-bending improbability of what just happened. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eugene Robinson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[What]]></category><category><![CDATA[He]]></category><category><![CDATA[Overcame]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jamestown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Facebook Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guantanamo Bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kenya]]></category><category><![CDATA[MySpace Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iowa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kansas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Carolina]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Coda for the Clintons ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/02/AR2008060202592.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/02/AR2008060202592.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Crank up your iPods, everyone. Herewith, a musical guide to the endgame of the epic contest for the Democratic nomination:<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302410700275" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302410700275" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eugene Robinson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Coda]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clintons]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harold Ickes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Apple iPod]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ella Fitzgerald]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kirk Franklin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mary J. Blige]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nat King Cole]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Palmer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yolanda Adams]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vanity Fair Magazine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maine]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Hard-Line Lunacy on Cuba ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/30/AR2008053002119.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/30/AR2008053002119.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ For nearly five decades, the United States has pursued a policy toward Cuba that could be described as incredibly stupid. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eugene Robinson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Hard-Line]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lunacy]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cuba]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cuba]]></category><category><![CDATA[Raul Castro]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fidel Castro]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beijing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Havana]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Miami]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S.S.R.]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cuban American National Foundation]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tibet]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Clinton's Grim Scenario ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/26/AR2008052601743.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/26/AR2008052601743.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ If this campaign goes on much longer, what will be left of Hillary Clinton? ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eugene Robinson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Clinton's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Grim]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scenario]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert F. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iowa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sioux Falls]]></category><category><![CDATA[Argus Leader]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Dakota]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ What Hillary Wants ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/22/AR2008052203018.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/22/AR2008052203018.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Commentators trying to discern Hillary Clinton's endgame strategy have posited any number of wheels-within-wheels scenarios worthy of a spy novel. The simple truth has nothing to do with logic and everything to do with instinct: Keep moving forward until you drop. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eugene Robinson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[What]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wants]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boca Raton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Selma]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ King as He Was ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/19/AR2008051902233.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/19/AR2008051902233.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ We should all be able to agree that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was "confrontational." He was also wise, measured, visionary, good-natured and generous of heart. Like most great figures in history, he was complicated. But he didn't ask for an end to Jim Crow repression, he demanded it; he didn't request equal justice, he required it. Confrontation, basically, was the whole point.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302410701796" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302410701796" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eugene Robinson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[King]]></category><category><![CDATA[as]]></category><category><![CDATA[He]]></category><category><![CDATA[Was]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martin Luther King Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abraham Lincoln]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daniel Chester French]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fred Rogers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kehinde Wiley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mahatma Gandhi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lincoln Memorial]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Commission of Fine Arts]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The GOP's Ideas Deficit ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/15/AR2008051503161.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/15/AR2008051503161.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Reagan era in American politics is about to end, and we have George W. Bush to thank for its demise. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eugene Robinson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[GOP's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ideas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deficit]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Schumpeter]]></category><category><![CDATA[ABC Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mississippi]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Card Clinton Is Playing ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/08/AR2008050802807.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/08/AR2008050802807.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ From the beginning, Hillary Clinton has campaigned as if the Democratic nomination were hers by divine right. That's why she is falling short -- and that's why she should be persuaded to quit now, rather than later, before her majestic sense of entitlement splits the party along racial lines. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eugene Robinson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Card]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[Playing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Camp Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[USA TODAY]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iowa]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ 'Idol' Carries a Shakier Tune ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/05/AR2008050502066.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/05/AR2008050502066.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It's time for the annual "American Idol" column, written this year with a heavy heart. Let's not kid ourselves: Something's not right. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eugene Robinson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA['Idol']]></category><category><![CDATA[Carries]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shakier]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tune]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Idol]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Archuleta]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Cook]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jason Castro]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paula Abdul]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paula Moments]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rupert Murdoch]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ryan Seacrest]]></category><category><![CDATA[CBS Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dancing with the Stars]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deal or No Deal]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Campaign Nonsense Du Jour ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/01/AR2008050102858.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/01/AR2008050102858.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ There's something maddening about this presidential campaign. It has become irrelevant whether anything the candidates say actually makes sense. All that matters is how their words will "play" with voters who are presumed to be too stupid to realize that they're the ones being played.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302410702039" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302410702039" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eugene Robinson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Campaign]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nonsense]]></category><category><![CDATA[Du]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jour]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Where Wright Goes Wrong ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/28/AR2008042802102.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/28/AR2008042802102.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ We all have our crosses to bear. The Rev. Jeremiah Wright has become Barack Obama's. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eugene Robinson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Where]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wright]]></category><category><![CDATA[Goes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wrong]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeremiah Wright]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Detroit]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[NAACP]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Press Club]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Race That Wouldn't Die ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/24/AR2008042402985.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/24/AR2008042402985.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Who picked this movie? A few months ago, the contest for the Democratic presidential nomination looked as if it would be the feel-good political campaign of the decade, if not the century. We settled in for a heartwarming sequel to "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington." Instead, we're having to endure an endless loop of "Alien vs. Predator," a grisly piece of cinema in which all-powerful extraterrestrials battle for ultimate supremacy while mere humans become collateral damage. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eugene Robinson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Race]]></category><category><![CDATA[That]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wouldn't]]></category><category><![CDATA[Die]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Not Quite Like Ike ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/21/AR2008042102552.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/21/AR2008042102552.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ How on earth is the Republican Party going to sell John McCain? Once the Democrats stop doing the job, I mean. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eugene Robinson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Not]]></category><category><![CDATA[Quite]]></category><category><![CDATA[Like]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ike]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Armed Forces]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chuck Grassley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]></category><category><![CDATA[Havana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tehran]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cuba]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Taliban]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Heat -- and a Little Light ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/17/AR2008041703166.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/17/AR2008041703166.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Once the meaningless inquisition about loose semantics and questionable acquaintances was done, Wednesday night's debate between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton got interesting.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302410702774" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=302410702774" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eugene Robinson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Heat]]></category><category><![CDATA[--]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Little]]></category><category><![CDATA[Light]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category><category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles Gibson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Stephanopoulos]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeremiah Wright]]></category><category><![CDATA[ABC Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bosnia and Herzegovina]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Shot and a Chablis ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/14/AR2008041402449.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/14/AR2008041402449.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Hillary "Shot-and-a-Beer" Clinton has given us the perfect illustration of what's so insane about American politics: the philosophical dictum that could be summed up (with apologies to Descartes) as "I seem, therefore I am." ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eugene Robinson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Shot]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chablis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Gore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ford F-150]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rene Descartes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Annie Oakley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Crown Point]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Kerry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Josephine Sixpack]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category></item>
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