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<channel><title><![CDATA[washingtonpost.com - E.J. Dionne Jr. Archive]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/22/LI2005042201099.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><description><![CDATA[E.J. Dionne Jr. 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[ Who Is John McCain? ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/07/AR2008100702438.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/07/AR2008100702438.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Last night's debate, a town-hall discussion dominated by economic questions, made it clear that John McCain's efforts to change the campaign's focus to the culture wars of the 1960s is not going to work. Voters want candidates to talk about problems and how to solve them, especially the enormous ones confronting us now. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. J. Dionne Jr.]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Who]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[John]]></category><category><![CDATA[McCain?]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Greg Strimple]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Ryan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Weather Underground Organization]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category><category><![CDATA[William Ayers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Youngstown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fannie Mae]]></category><category><![CDATA[Freddie Mac Holdings]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peace Corps]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Hockey Mom on Thin Ice ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/02/AR2008100203046.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/02/AR2008100203046.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Early in last night's vice-presidential debate, Sarah Palin said that she might not answer the questions as moderator Gwen Ifill posed them. This was the Alaska governor's way of saying she was going to stick to the talking points she had stuffed into her head, no matter what the subject. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. J. Dionne Jr.]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Hockey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mom]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ice]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Biden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gwen Ifill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Katie Couric]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steve Inskeep]]></category><category><![CDATA[ABC Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Idol]]></category><category><![CDATA[CBS Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Public Radio Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pew Research Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[The New York Times Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ McCain's Lost Chance ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/28/AR2008092802233.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/28/AR2008092802233.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ September began as John McCain's month and ended as Barack Obama's. McCain's high-risk wagers aimed at shaking up the campaign turned into very bad investments. And Friday's debate eliminated McCain's best chance to deliver a knockout blow to an opponent whose most important asset may be his capacity for self-correction. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. J. Dionne Jr.]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[McCain's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lost]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chance]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Gore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cable News Network LP LLLP]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edward M. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Newt Gingrich]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russ Feingold]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Mississippi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Photo McCain Wanted ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/25/AR2008092503684.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/25/AR2008092503684.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ John McCain's sudden intervention in Washington's deliberations over the Wall Street bailout could not have been more out of sync with what was actually happening.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=41814608883" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=41814608883" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. J. Dionne Jr.]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Photo]]></category><category><![CDATA[McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wanted]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barney Frank]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Boehner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christopher Dodd]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Soros]]></category><category><![CDATA[Henry M. Paulson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House Committee on Financial Services]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Improving Paulson's Cure ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/22/AR2008092202564.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/22/AR2008092202564.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Liberal Democrats are in agony over bailing out Wall Street. Conservative Republicans are in agony over massive government intervention in what they like to call the free market. Yet neither side wants to be blamed if the financial system implodes. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. J. Dionne Jr.]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Improving]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paulson's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cure]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barney Frank]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jack Reed]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category><category><![CDATA[Henry M. Paulson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles Schumer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christopher Dodd]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House Committee on Financial Services]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ As Michigan Goes . . . ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/18/AR2008091803046.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/18/AR2008091803046.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- If he carries Michigan, many routes to victory are open for Barack Obama. Without Michigan, he's got a big problem. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. J. Dionne Jr.]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[As]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Goes]]></category><category><![CDATA[.]]></category><category><![CDATA[.]]></category><category><![CDATA[.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Saul Anuzis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jennifer Granholm]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Detroit]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category><category><![CDATA[Debbie Stabenow]]></category><category><![CDATA[Grand Rapids]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Kerry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kwame Kilpatrick]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stan Greenberg]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Bonior]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Council of Snowmobile Associations]]></category><category><![CDATA[General Motors Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard Law School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard University]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[U-Haul International Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Wisconsin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Whose Elitism Problem Now? ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/15/AR2008091502472.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/15/AR2008091502472.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In democracies, all political factions run against an elite. Since the New Deal, Democrats have cast themselves against the financial and business elite. Since the 1960s, Republicans have thrashed the cultural and intellectual elite. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. J. Dionne Jr.]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Whose]]></category><category><![CDATA[Elitism]]></category><category><![CDATA[Problem]]></category><category><![CDATA[Now?]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hollywood]]></category><category><![CDATA[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paris]]></category><category><![CDATA[Theodore Roosevelt]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Tiptoeing Through the Mud ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/11/AR2008091102827.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/11/AR2008091102827.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- It has been hard to remember lately that the country is in the midst of one of the most consequential presidential elections of our lifetimes.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=41814610240" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=41814610240" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. J. Dionne Jr.]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Tiptoeing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Through]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mud]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jerry Meek]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chapel Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Price]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jonathan Cohn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Dukakis]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Republic Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[George H.W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Pulling the Curtain on Palin ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/08/AR2008090801907.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/08/AR2008090801907.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ John McCain's campaign acknowledged this weekend that Sarah Palin is unprepared to be vice president or president of the United States. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. J. Dionne Jr.]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Pulling]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Curtain]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bristol Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles Gibson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Elisabeth Bumiller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Gore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Biden]]></category><category><![CDATA[ABC Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[FOX News Network LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Karl Rove]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rick Davis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steve Schmidt]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alaskan Independence Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[The New York Times Company]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Elegy for a Maverick ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/04/AR2008090402842.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/04/AR2008090402842.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Once upon a time, John McCain promised to be a different kind of politician and a different kind of Republican. He was about straight talk, reform and nonpartisanship, a resolute foe of the slashing politics of the slaughterhouse. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. J. Dionne Jr.]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Elegy]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maverick]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harry S. Truman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Lieberman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Murphy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rudolph Giuliani]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Ridge]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Petroleum Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Xcel Energy Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Northern Underexposure ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/31/AR2008083101618.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/31/AR2008083101618.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ ST. PAUL, Minn. -- By all rights, there should be a revolt at this week's (now-delayed) Republican convention against John McCain's selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate -- for the same reasons so many Republicans opposed President Bush's selection of Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. J. Dionne Jr.]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Northern]]></category><category><![CDATA[Underexposure]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harriet Miers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patrick Buchanan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Biden]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Souter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican National Convention]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sandra Day O'Connor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Pawlenty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Obama Rekindles the Flame ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/28/AR2008082802849.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/28/AR2008082802849.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ DENVER -- For months, the magic that once surrounded Barack Obama's presidential candidacy was lost in a fog of petty politics: the negative ads, the Clinton dramas, the degrading of Obama to the status of a mere "celebrity," the back and forth with John McCain over who is an elitist and who is a flip-flopper.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=41814612840" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=41814612840" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. J. Dionne Jr.]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rekindles]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Flame]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hubert Humphrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Biden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Des Moines]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Smith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harry S. Truman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Minneapolis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philadelphia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic National Convention]]></category><category><![CDATA[Invesco Field]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ What Biden Brings With Him ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/24/AR2008082401855.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/24/AR2008082401855.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ DENVER -- The 40-something politician pledged to wage a campaign rooted in his generation's "moment of obligation and opportunity." ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. J. Dionne Jr.]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[What]]></category><category><![CDATA[Biden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brings]]></category><category><![CDATA[With]]></category><category><![CDATA[Him]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Biden]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Delaware]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic National Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Obama vs. August ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/21/AR2008082103107.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/21/AR2008082103107.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Don't worry, Democrats, the worst of August is over. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. J. Dionne Jr.]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[vs.]]></category><category><![CDATA[August]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Doyle (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joe Sestak]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Kerry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philadelphia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pittsburgh]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The New Evangelical Politics ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/18/AR2008081801850.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/18/AR2008081801850.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Anyone who still doubts that the evangelical Christian world is going through a political revolution was not watching Pastor Rick Warren's presidential forum this weekend. The era of reducing Christianity to a narrow set of ideological commitments is over. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. J. Dionne Jr.]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[New]]></category><category><![CDATA[Evangelical]]></category><category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rick Warren]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joel Hunter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kristen Day]]></category><category><![CDATA[FOX News Network LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Next Memo ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/13/AR2008081303361.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/13/AR2008081303361.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Will the Party of Clinton ever become the Party of Obama?<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=41814615673" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=41814615673" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. J. Dionne Jr.]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Next]]></category><category><![CDATA[Memo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joshua Green]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Penn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Nixon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denver]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Party of Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Party of Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Barnett]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spiro Agnew]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Obama as Incumbent ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/10/AR2008081001867.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/10/AR2008081001867.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The core strategy of John McCain's campaign is to turn Barack Obama into the incumbent, the man who is too familiar yet still mysterious. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. J. Dionne Jr.]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[as]]></category><category><![CDATA[Incumbent]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[CBS Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hawaii]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pew Research Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Project for Excellence in Journalism]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Darfur's Torchbearer ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/07/AR2008080702901.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/07/AR2008080702901.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ When you put the Olympics in the hands of a dictatorship, the results are predictable. Yet the Chinese government still found a way to surprise even its critics -- not so much by behaving oppressively but by doing so in a foolish and entirely unnecessary way. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. J. Dionne Jr.]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Darfur's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Torchbearer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joey Cheek]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[Darfur]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brad Greiner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sudan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Melissa Block]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Posner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Human Rights First]]></category><category><![CDATA[International Olympic Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Public Radio Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of California-Los Angeles]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Unavoidable Issue ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/04/AR2008080401826.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/04/AR2008080401826.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Last week's dust-up over race between John McCain and Barack Obama was entirely disappointing. Obama spoke first about how his opponents would try to "make you scared of me," noting that he "doesn't look like all those other presidents" on our currency. What Obama said was true, but he made the tactical mistake of suggesting that McCain was complicit in overtly racial politics. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. J. Dionne Jr.]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Unavoidable]]></category><category><![CDATA[Issue]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John F. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[William Connolly]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rick Davis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adlai Stevenson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cambridge (Massachusetts)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Orwell]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Kerry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manhattan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Nixon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hyde Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ English Lessons for McCain ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/31/AR2008073102821.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/31/AR2008073102821.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It was a little-noticed episode during Barack Obama's boffo foreign trip, but it was the moment most relevant to the American presidential campaign.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=41814616782" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=41814616782" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. J. Dionne Jr.]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[English]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lessons]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Cameron]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Miliband]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Britney Spears]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dallas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Glasgow]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paris Hilton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tony Blair]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brown's Labor Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Year The Youth Vote Arrives ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/24/AR2008072403414.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/24/AR2008072403414.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The conventional wisdom on certain subjects is so deeply rooted that no amount of evidence disturbs its hold. That's how it is with those dreary predictions that young Americans just won't vote. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. J. Dionne Jr.]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Year]]></category><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Youth]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vote]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arrives]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Kerry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pew Research Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Rockefeller Foundation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Time Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Maryland]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Obama's Iraq Mission ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/21/AR2008072102360.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/21/AR2008072102360.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ To win the presidency, Barack Obama needs only to battle John McCain to a tie on foreign policy and national security. That means Obama has no need for a great triumph during his trip this week to the Middle East and Europe. His goal is to look safe, sound and competent, and that's how he's playing things. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. J. Dionne Jr.]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Obama's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mission]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jimmy Carter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nouri al-Maliki]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[ABC Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Der Spiegel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category><category><![CDATA[Moscow]]></category><category><![CDATA[The New York Times Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S.S.R.]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Gore's Energy Oomph ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/17/AR2008071701840.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/17/AR2008071701840.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ On the issue of gasoline prices, Republicans think they have a winner in their call for new drilling, and Democrats are playing defense. Democrats need -- this is a technical term -- a lot more oomph. Al Gore wants to help them. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. J. Dionne Jr.]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Gore's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oomph]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Gore]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stan Greenberg]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Carville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category><category><![CDATA[International Energy Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Persian Gulf]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ In Virginia, Thawing a Map ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/14/AR2008071401847.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/14/AR2008071401847.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ RUTHER GLEN, Va. -- If the 2008 election is destined to break up a frozen electoral map, Virginia is one of the most likely venues for the great political thaw.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=41814620943" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=41814620943" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. J. Dionne Jr.]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thawing]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Map]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christopher Peace]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Webb]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kimberly Hunter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mo Elleithee]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Appalachia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Doug Wilder]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gerry Scimeca]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Gilmore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Old Dominion University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rappahannock River]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican Party of Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Capitalism's Reality Check ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/10/AR2008071002264.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/10/AR2008071002264.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The biggest political story of 2008 is getting little coverage. It involves the collapse of assumptions that have dominated our economic debate for three decades. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. J. Dionne Jr.]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Capitalism's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reality]]></category><category><![CDATA[Check]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ben Bernanke]]></category><category><![CDATA[Irwin Stelzer]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Federal Reserve]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barney Frank]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mobile]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center for Economic Policy Studies]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hudson Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House Committee on Financial Services]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Stand That Obama Can't Fudge ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/06/AR2008070601765.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/06/AR2008070601765.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ When a candidate calls a second news conference to say the same thing he thought he said at the first one, you know he knows he has a problem. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. J. Dionne Jr.]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stand]]></category><category><![CDATA[That]]></category><category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Can't]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fudge]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fargo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeff Zeleny]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Kerry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Cooper]]></category><category><![CDATA[African Methodist Episcopal Church]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Dakota]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican National Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[The New York Times Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Obama's Faith-Based Reform ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/03/AR2008070302453.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/03/AR2008070302453.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Barack Obama keeps trying to end the wars over culture and religion, and good for him. The 1960s are so 40 years ago. But Obama's opponents, as well as some of his friends, won't let him do it. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. J. Dionne Jr.]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Obama's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Faith-Based]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reform]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Catholic Charities USA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Kuo]]></category><category><![CDATA[California State University-Fresno]]></category><category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category><category><![CDATA[White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Court vs. Voters ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/30/AR2008063001900.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/30/AR2008063001900.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ If the long conservative era that began with Ronald Reagan's election is over, will the judges appointed during the right's ascendancy be able to block, frustrate and undermine the efforts of a new progressive majority?<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=41814622824" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=41814622824" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. J. Dionne Jr.]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[vs.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Voters]]></category><category><![CDATA[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adolf Hitler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anthony M. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeffrey Rosen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Alsop]]></category><category><![CDATA[Turner Catledge]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Republic Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The D.C. Handgun Ruling ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/26/AR2008062603655.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/26/AR2008062603655.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In knocking down the District's 32-year-old ban on handgun possession, the conservatives on the Supreme Court have again shown their willingness to abandon precedent in order to do whatever is necessary to further the agenda of the contemporary political right. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. J. Dionne Jr.]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[D.C.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Handgun]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ruling]]></category><category><![CDATA[Antonin Scalia]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Paul Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Helmke]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen G. Breyer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guantanamo Bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Obama's Balance Sheet ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/23/AR2008062301828.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/23/AR2008062301828.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Barack Obama's decision to forgo public funds will bring joy to opponents of campaign finance reform. But to say that Obama has killed public financing is to miss the point. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. J. Dionne Jr.]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Obama's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Balance]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sheet]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Kerry]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russ Feingold]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Campaign Finance Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Carolina]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Jump Ball for New Hampshire ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/19/AR2008061903021.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/19/AR2008061903021.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ HANOVER, N.H. -- The race for electoral votes could be so close in November that small states may well pick the next president. Among those diminutive states, New Hampshire is by far the most interesting. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. J. Dionne Jr.]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Jump]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ball]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[New]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hampshire]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Rath]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carol Shea-Porter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fergus Cullen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Gore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeb Bradley]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Kerry]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Lynch (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Obi-Wan Kenobi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Hodes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Princess Leia Organa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ralph Nader]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ray Buckley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House of Representatives]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Calling Fathers and Voters ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/17/AR2008061702007.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/17/AR2008061702007.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Will everyone dismiss Barack Obama's Father's Day call to responsible parenting as a simple political ploy?<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=41814626660" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=41814626660" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. J. Dionne Jr.]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Calling]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fathers]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[Voters]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daniel Patrick Moynihan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pat Moynihan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Russert]]></category><category><![CDATA[Trinity United Church of Christ]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Raising Hopes ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/16/AR2008061602088.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/16/AR2008061602088.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Will everyone dismiss Barack Obama's Father's Day call to responsible parenting as a simple political ploy? ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[washingtonpost.com]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Raising]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hopes]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Democratic Tide on The Rise ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/12/AR2008061203471.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/12/AR2008061203471.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ At the moment, Barack Obama is winning a smaller share of Democrats than John Kerry did on Election Day four years ago. Yet Obama is beating John McCain by six points in the latest Gallup Poll. How can this be? ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. J. Dionne Jr.]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Democratic]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tide]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rise]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Kerry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alex Castellanos]]></category><category><![CDATA[Geoff Garin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vincent F. Callahan Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[NBC Universal Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Winston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Chichester]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican Party of Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Gallup Organization]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Congress]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House Committee on Appropriations]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A List Biden Belongs On ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/09/AR2008060902237.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/09/AR2008060902237.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The scene has stayed with me for six years: Democrat Jill Long Thompson, in the midst of a fiercely competitive race in Indiana's 2nd Congressional District, was being pressed by supporters to criticize what they saw as President Bush's rush to war in Iraq. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[E. J. Dionne Jr.]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[List]]></category><category><![CDATA[Biden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Belongs]]></category><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Biden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Long Thompson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chris Chocola]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chuck Hagel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Lugar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edward Rendell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philadelphia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Gephardt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scranton (Pennsylvania)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary]]></category></item>
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