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<channel><title><![CDATA[washingtonpost.com - David S. Broder -- Washington Post Politics Writer]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032401502.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><description><![CDATA[David S. Broder writes about politics and policy for The Washington Post.]]></description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com?nav=rss</link><url>http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif </url></image>
<item><title><![CDATA[ What Honeymoon? ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/10/AR2008101002612.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/10/AR2008101002612.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The good news for Barack Obama is that the calamities in the financial world may have created an insuperable barrier to John McCain's White House ambitions. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[What]]></category><category><![CDATA[Honeymoon?]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[France]]></category><category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Federal Reserve]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Running From Reality ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/08/AR2008100802929.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/08/AR2008100802929.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Something strange is happening in this strangest of all presidential contests. The longer it goes on, the less we know about what either of these men would do if he were in the Oval Office next year. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Running]]></category><category><![CDATA[From]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reality]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[London]]></category><category><![CDATA[William Ayers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mississippi]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Uplifting Debate ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/03/AR2008100303305.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/03/AR2008100303305.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ ST. LOUIS -- The McCain campaign, perhaps fearful of the reviews that Sarah Palin would receive for her part in Thursday night's debate here, deployed a trio of almost-vice-presidential candidates to convince reporters that she had passed her big test. Rudy Giuliani was in one corner of the "spin" room, Joe Lieberman in another and Lindsey Graham in a third. All three are favorites of John McCain and conceivably could have wound up on his ticket, had he not been captivated by the governor of Alaska. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Uplifting]]></category><category><![CDATA[Debate]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Biden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lindsey Graham]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steve Schmidt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles Gibson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Lieberman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Katie Couric]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rudolph Giuliani]]></category><category><![CDATA[ABC Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[CBS Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican National Convention]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Mississippi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington University in St. Louis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category><category><![CDATA[Delaware]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Economics Exam in Michigan ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/01/AR2008100102647.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/01/AR2008100102647.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ WATERFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- When I visited this battleground area in the suburbs of Detroit early this week, it was to check the public reaction to the first debate of 2008.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411172124717" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411172124717" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category><category><![CDATA[Exam]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Gillin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Detroit]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beth Graves]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Walker]]></category><category><![CDATA[Birmingham]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oakland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Gore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles James]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Kerry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marilyn Alberkorn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oakland County]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Mississippi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chrysler Holding LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[SAM'S West Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ McCain as the Alpha Male ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/27/AR2008092701357.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/27/AR2008092701357.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ There were no knockout blows in the first presidential debate of the fall, but John McCain outpointed Barack Obama often enough to encourage his followers that he can somehow overcome the odds and deny the Democrats the victory that has seemed to be in store for them. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[as]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alpha]]></category><category><![CDATA[Male]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Lehrer]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[- Land]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Petraeus]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]]></category><category><![CDATA[Osama bin Laden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mississippi]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Credibility Test for Congress ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/24/AR2008092403008.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/24/AR2008092403008.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In the greatest crisis to confront the American economic system in three-quarters of a century, it is notable that the leaders of the two elected branches of the federal government have not been calling the signals. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Credibility]]></category><category><![CDATA[Test]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harry Reid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barney Frank]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ben Bernanke]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christopher Dodd]]></category><category><![CDATA[Henry M. Paulson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steny Hoyer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Henry Morgenthau, Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House of Representatives]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Debate's High Stakes ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/19/AR2008091903181.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/19/AR2008091903181.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Friday evening in Oxford, Miss., Barack Obama and John McCain will meet in the first presidential debate of 2008, and this dramatic campaign will in all likelihood reach another turning point. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Debate's]]></category><category><![CDATA[High]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stakes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oxford]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fred Thompson (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Edwards (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Huckabee]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rick Warren]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rudolph Giuliani]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican National Convention]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Down Days for McCain ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/17/AR2008091702970.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/17/AR2008091702970.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ When it's September and important issues cry out for attention but we seem consumed by trivia -- watch out.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411172126826" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411172126826" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Down]]></category><category><![CDATA[Days]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gary Condit]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category><category><![CDATA[American International Group Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lehman Brothers Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican National Convention]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Federal Reserve]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Next President's Due Bill ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/12/AR2008091202595.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/12/AR2008091202595.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Every so often, reality has to intrude on politics. The candidates, of course, resent it and do their damnedest to avoid it. And those of us who make a living reporting politics are equally determined not to let the harsh truths of the outside world impinge on the "game" being played out on the campaign trail. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Next]]></category><category><![CDATA[President's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Due]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Moscow]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shanghai]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Congressional Budget Office]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Too Early To Call It ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/10/AR2008091002725.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/10/AR2008091002725.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In the opening days of the general election campaign, an exaggerated optimism has swept through Republican ranks and an equally exaggerated gloom has infected the Democrats. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Too]]></category><category><![CDATA[Early]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Call]]></category><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Biden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denver]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steve Schmidt]]></category><category><![CDATA[ABC Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Change vs. Change ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/05/AR2008090502969.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/05/AR2008090502969.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Change is coming, change you can count on. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Change]]></category><category><![CDATA[vs.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Change]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denver]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nevada]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Palin's Learning Curve  ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/02/AR2008090202439.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/02/AR2008090202439.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Tom Donilon, the Washington lawyer who did the delegate-counting for Jimmy Carter in 1980, has a bit of practical wisdom that he has offered over the years to many other Democratic presidential hopefuls.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411172128502" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411172128502" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Palin's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Learning]]></category><category><![CDATA[Curve]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Donilon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anchorage]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hollis Rutledge]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Biden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jimmy Carter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arliss Sturgulewski]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Jones]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brownsville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Norm Coleman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steve Cowper]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican National Convention]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Connecticut]]></category><category><![CDATA[Idaho]]></category><category><![CDATA[Minnesota]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rio Grande Valley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Governors Association]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ How Palin Could Help ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/31/AR2008083101621.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/31/AR2008083101621.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ ST. PAUL, Minn. -- This one was really different. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[How]]></category><category><![CDATA[Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Could]]></category><category><![CDATA[Help]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Biden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Murphy]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denver]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category><category><![CDATA[St. Louis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Theodore Roosevelt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic National Convention]]></category><category><![CDATA[Meet the Press]]></category><category><![CDATA[NBC Universal Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Small Change From Obama ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/29/AR2008082902883.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/29/AR2008082902883.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ DENVER -- The Democrats had themselves a successful convention -- at the price of appearing quite conventional. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Small]]></category><category><![CDATA[Change]]></category><category><![CDATA[From]]></category><category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denver]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Gore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Durbin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edward M. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jimmy Carter]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Kerry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Biden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Walter Mondale]]></category><category><![CDATA[AFC West Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Football Conference]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denver Broncos]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Football League]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Women at Center Stage ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/27/AR2008082702997.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/27/AR2008082702997.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ DENVER -- The leading women of the Democratic Party have done their part. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Women]]></category><category><![CDATA[at]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stage]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michelle Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denver]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Biden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Little Rock]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Candidate At Home In Scranton ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/24/AR2008082401853.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/24/AR2008082401853.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ DENVER -- I cannot believe that it has been more than 20 years since I interviewed Sen. Joe Biden about his reflections on his first presidential race, but the date on the column is irrefutable: Jan. 6, 1988.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411172130033" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411172130033" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Candidate]]></category><category><![CDATA[At]]></category><category><![CDATA[Home]]></category><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scranton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Biden]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Lugar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Neil Kinnock]]></category><category><![CDATA[The New York Times Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Brooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Edwards (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maureen Dowd]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Dukakis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scranton (Pennsylvania)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wilmington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Labour Party (UK)]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Cable Satellite Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indiana]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Granite State Nail-Biter ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/22/AR2008082202357.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/22/AR2008082202357.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ MANCHESTER, N.H. -- When Sen. Charles Schumer of New York, the chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, lists the November races that will swell his party's majority, New Hampshire is one of the first he brags about. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Granite]]></category><category><![CDATA[State]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nail-Biter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeanne Shaheen]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Sununu]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Shaheen]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Londonderry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles Schumer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Hyers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gordon Smith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Norm Coleman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robby Mook]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sununu's Senate]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of New Hampshire]]></category><category><![CDATA[Minnesota]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Conventional Wisdom ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/22/AR2008082201030.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/22/AR2008082201030.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:19:14 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[washingtonpost.com]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Conventional]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wisdom]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ In N.H., a Deal to Close ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/20/AR2008082002939.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/20/AR2008082002939.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ LYNDEBOROUGH, N.H. -- Secretary of State Bill Gardner is as much of a New Hampshire tradition as the presidential primary he assiduously protects from all challenges. He may not know every voter in the state, but he knows every vote. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[N.H.,]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deal]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Close]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leslie Hopps]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ron Paul]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category><category><![CDATA[Julia Calocci]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Gardner (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brian George]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gordon Starrweather]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kenneth Young]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manchester]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Huckabee]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Obama's Well-Oiled Machine ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/15/AR2008081503098.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/15/AR2008081503098.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ CHICAGO -- While Barack Obama and his family were sunning on the beach in Hawaii last week, it was full speed ahead at his headquarters here. When I visited for the first time, the suite of rooms on the 11th floor of a rather posh office building on North Michigan Avenue -- known as "The Magnificent Mile" -- was filled with young people, most of them engrossed with the laptops on their desks.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411172132958" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411172132958" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Obama's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Well-Oiled]]></category><category><![CDATA[Machine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Plouffe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joe Rospars]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anita Dunn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denver]]></category><category><![CDATA[George McGovern]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Howard Dean]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patti Solis Doyle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Nixon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic National Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hawaii]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iowa]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Carolina]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Pros and Conventions ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/13/AR2008081303367.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/13/AR2008081303367.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ LIBERTYVILLE, Ill. -- The Stevenson family has a long history with political conventions. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Pros]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[Conventions]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adlai Stevenson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[George McGovern]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Lugar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jesse Jackson]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Anderson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard J. Daley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abraham Lincoln]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alben Barkley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Kurtis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Burke]]></category><category><![CDATA[Estes Kefauver]]></category><category><![CDATA[Grover Cleveland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harry S. Truman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hubert Humphrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sargent Shriver]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spiro Agnew]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas Eagleton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tip O'Neill]]></category><category><![CDATA[William Jennings Bryan]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adlai Stevenson Center on Democracy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kentucky]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Dakota]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Rivals in Search of Trust ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/08/AR2008080802916.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/08/AR2008080802916.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In the time they served together in the United States Senate, John McCain and Barack Obama developed neither a friendship nor an intense dislike. They entered this campaign as relative strangers, and now -- as the sniping builds to a steady staccato -- each of them has acquired a strong sense of grievance about the other. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Rivals]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Search]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Trust]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edward M. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harry Reid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jack Abramoff]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Way Back to the High Road? ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/06/AR2008080602510.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/06/AR2008080602510.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The first question I asked John McCain and then Barack Obama was: How do you feel about the tone and direction of the campaign so far? ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Way]]></category><category><![CDATA[Back]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[High]]></category><category><![CDATA[Road?]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Elkhart (Indiana)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Commission on Presidential Debates]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Slate To Revive The Senate ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/01/AR2008080102985.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/01/AR2008080102985.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Senators are great glad-handers, not just with their constituents but with each other. Every time a vote is called, they mill around in front of the rostrum, grabbing hands and shoulders or patting each other's backs.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411172134736" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411172134736" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Slate]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Revive]]></category><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ted Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Byrd]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles Schumer]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Sununu]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Udall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Mexico]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Morris Udall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anchorage]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dana Milbank]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeanne Shaheen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Begich]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tucson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category><category><![CDATA[West Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ When Congress Works ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/30/AR2008073002950.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/30/AR2008073002950.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ If you were to ask Democrats Barney Frank and Chris Dodd -- the principal architects of the massive housing bill signed yesterday by President Bush -- which of its many features pleases them most, the answer would surprise you. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[When]]></category><category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category><category><![CDATA[Works]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sheila Crowley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fannie Mae]]></category><category><![CDATA[Freddie Mac Holdings]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jack Reed]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Shelby]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Low Income Housing Coalition]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alabama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Connecticut]]></category><category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rhode Island]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Management 101 for Senators ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/25/AR2008072502760.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/25/AR2008072502760.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ One of the wisest men I ever knew in Washington was the late James H. Rowe Jr. He came out of Montana, went to Harvard Law School and was recruited by Felix Frankfurter for a job on FDR's White House staff. In later years, he became a counselor to Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey and other Democrats of that generation. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Management]]></category><category><![CDATA[101]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Senators]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bradley H. Patterson]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[James H. Rowe Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hubert Humphrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lyndon Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Felix Frankfurter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard Law School]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Nixon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eisenhower Executive Office Building]]></category><category><![CDATA[Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Brookings Institution]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Homeland Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[USA Freedom Corps]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Obama's Tour de Force ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/23/AR2008072302903.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/23/AR2008072302903.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It made no sense when Barack Obama left the country on his nine-day overseas tour for some of my fellow columnists to describe it as a high-risk venture. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Obama's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tour]]></category><category><![CDATA[de]]></category><category><![CDATA[Force]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nouri al-Maliki]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Petraeus]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baghdad]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chuck Hagel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jack Reed]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kuwait]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of State]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Deputy Dilemma For McCain ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/18/AR2008071802607.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/18/AR2008071802607.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ On Wednesday morning, The Post published a poll of registered voters giving Barack Obama an eight-point lead -- largely because the voters said they trusted him more than John McCain on handling their No. 1 issue, the economy, by an astounding 19 percentage points.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411172136848" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411172136848" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deputy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dilemma]]></category><category><![CDATA[For]]></category><category><![CDATA[McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Bloomberg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bobby Jindal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Newt Gingrich]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rob Portman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alan Greenspan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Warren Buffett]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cincinnati]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House of Representatives]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[Louisiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Listening To the Governors ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/16/AR2008071602432.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/16/AR2008071602432.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ PHILADELPHIA -- When the luck of the draw made him the chairman of the National Governors Association in this, the centennial year of its first meeting -- with President Theodore Roosevelt -- Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty knew how and where he wanted to celebrate the occasion. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Listening]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Governors]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cokie Roberts]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Sununu]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Dukakis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Theodore Roosevelt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Pawlenty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daniel J. Evans]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dirk A. Kempthorne]]></category><category><![CDATA[Doug Wilder]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edwin Edwards]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Voinovich]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hershey (Pennsylvania)]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Engler]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Linwood Holton]]></category><category><![CDATA[M. Jodi Rell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Leavitt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nelson A. Rockefeller]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Orleans]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Norton Smith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roy Romer]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Philadelphia Orchestra]]></category><category><![CDATA[Louisiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Virgin Islands]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Governors Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Obama's Enigma ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/11/AR2008071102545.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/11/AR2008071102545.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ John McCain is the candidate who actually had experience as a wartime flier, but Barack Obama is the one who has most successfully adapted a favorite tactic of those intrepid aviators. When the pilots were over a target heavily defended by antiaircraft guns, they would release a cloud of fine metal scraps, hoping to confuse the aim of the shells or missiles being fired in their direction. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Obama's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Enigma]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Orleans]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Hart]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Nixon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Selma (Alabama)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican National Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Appalachia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Fixing How We Go to War ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/09/AR2008070901936.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/09/AR2008070901936.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Just shy of eight years after they squared off in the Florida recount battle, James A. Baker III and Warren Christopher have joined forces to clean up one of the ugly legacies of Vietnam -- the misguided piece of legislation called the War Powers Act. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Fixing]]></category><category><![CDATA[How]]></category><category><![CDATA[We]]></category><category><![CDATA[Go]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[War]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Gore]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joint Congressional Consultation Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[National War Powers Commission]]></category><category><![CDATA[Southeast Asia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Decider on the High Court ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/04/AR2008070402090.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/04/AR2008070402090.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The most dramatic stories in any field of competitive endeavor are those that recount events that almost never happened. It's the scoreless ballgames that end with a walk-off homer in the bottom of the ninth that linger in the psyches of winners and losers -- not the 9-3 walkovers.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411172138313" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411172138313" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Decider]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[High]]></category><category><![CDATA[Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anthony Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Douglas Ginsburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Bork]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Gore]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Souter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edwin Meese]]></category><category><![CDATA[George H.W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gerald Ford]]></category><category><![CDATA[Howard Baker]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lee Epstein]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lewis F. Powell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sacramento]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sandra Day O'Connor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard Law School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stanford University]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Court of Appeals]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ One Nation No More? ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/02/AR2008070202352.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/02/AR2008070202352.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Just in time for Independence Day, a conservative think tank has delivered a controversial report asking whether America's national identity is eroding under the pressure of population diversity and educational slackness. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[One]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nation]]></category><category><![CDATA[No]]></category><category><![CDATA[More?]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Nixon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas Jefferson]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Army ROTC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Dumbing Down the Presidency ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/27/AR2008062702770.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/27/AR2008062702770.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ People campaign for the presidency by talking their heads off. By the time the winner reaches the White House, the habit is so ingrained that it is impossible to shake. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Dumbing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Down]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Presidency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Elvin T. Lim]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bloomington]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeffrey Tulis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Woodrow Wilson]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peggy Noonan]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Texas System]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wesleyan University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Voting's Neglected Scandal ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/25/AR2008062501944.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/25/AR2008062501944.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ When Barack Obama decided last week to throw off the constraints on campaign spending that go with the acceptance of public financing, he was rightly criticized for rigging the system in his favor. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Voting's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Neglected]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scandal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marc Dunkelman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic Leadership Council]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alabama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hawaii]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iowa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Louisiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mississippi]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Jersey]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Mexico]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[West Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Getting to Know Obama ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/20/AR2008062002275.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/20/AR2008062002275.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ We are barely at the beginning of the long period in which most Americans will give their first serious scrutiny to the presidential candidates and decide whether Barack Obama or John McCain will get their vote.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411172140630" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411172140630" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Getting]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Know]]></category><category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Gibbs]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob Bauer]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Plouffe]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[ABC Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Foreign Policy's Best Hope ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/18/AR2008061802631.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/18/AR2008061802631.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Judging by the rhetoric coming out of the Obama and McCain campaigns this week, the United States is fated to endure another four years of bitter foreign policy partisanship, whoever wins this election. The rival nominees clashed on the proper approach to the war on terrorism; the way to handle the world's major trouble spots, including Iraq; and the approach America should take on everyone from Raúl Castro to the Iranian mullahs. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Foreign]]></category><category><![CDATA[Policy's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Best]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hope]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Lugar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Biden]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carl Levin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jesse Helms]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Raul Castro]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of State]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations]]></category><category><![CDATA[Delaware]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Perot, Back On the Charts ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/13/AR2008061302635.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/13/AR2008061302635.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Sixteen years after he shook up American politics by launching an impromptu campaign for president, Ross Perot is about to dip a toe back into the public debates. And, yes, he's bringing his charts with him to make his point. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Perot,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Back]]></category><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ross Perot]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Walker]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dallas]]></category><category><![CDATA[George H.W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Rubin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Many Gifts of Tim Russert ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/13/AR2008061303391.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/13/AR2008061303391.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ When Tim Russert took over "Meet the Press" in 1991, he was already well known to political reporters as the shrewd, inventive and very funny flack for Pat Moynihan and Mario Cuomo -- a spokesman almost as quotable as those two marvelously gifted speakers. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Many]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gifts]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russert]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sitting Tim]]></category><category><![CDATA[NBC Universal Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Betsy Fischer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ross Perot]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Clinton's Remarkable Run ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/11/AR2008061103169.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/11/AR2008061103169.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ When Hillary Clinton announced for president in January 2007, she did everything to play down her gender short of dressing herself in men's clothes. In a taped video, with no audience and no family members, she presented herself first and foremost as a senator and experienced Washington hand, ready to fight for Democratic goals and unintimidated by the GOP.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411172143098" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411172143098" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Clinton's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Remarkable]]></category><category><![CDATA[Run]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ann Lewis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edward M. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Dakota]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Let the Debates Begin ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/06/AR2008060603140.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/06/AR2008060603140.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It's pretty obvious what was the most overhyped political story of the past week. The honors clearly go to the Hillary Clinton drama: Will she stand down? Will she endorse? Will she deign to accept the vice presidency? Will she join a monastic order and move to a commune? What a lot of nonsense. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Let]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Debates]]></category><category><![CDATA[Begin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jimmy Carter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gerald Ford]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Gore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barry Goldwater]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denver]]></category><category><![CDATA[George H.W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lyndon Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Nixon]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Victor on His Heels ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/04/AR2008060403050.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/04/AR2008060403050.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ From Iowa in January through South Dakota and Montana in June, Barack Obama has enjoyed one of the great rides in American political history, breaking precedents and setting records along the way. It has been an extraordinary journey, magnified, not diminished, by the gritty, resilient performance of his main rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton. On that journey, he has given Americans the gift of a new and hopeful chapter in our troubled racial history. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Victor]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[His]]></category><category><![CDATA[Heels]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeremiah Wright]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Dakota]]></category><category><![CDATA[Des Moines]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gerald Ford]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic National Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iowa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican National Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kentucky]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category><category><![CDATA[West Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Reality vs. the Mythmakers ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/30/AR2008053002519.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/30/AR2008053002519.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ As dramatic as the contests have been for the Democratic and Republican presidential nominations, they have not been enough to satisfy the mythmakers. With the general election imminent, the fiction writers in both parties insist on versions of the battle that bear little resemblance to reality. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Reality]]></category><category><![CDATA[vs.]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mythmakers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeremiah Wright]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pew Research Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Project for Excellence in Journalism]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shorenstein Center on the Press]]></category><category><![CDATA[The New York Times Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Hamilton Jordan's Message to Obama ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/28/AR2008052802918.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/28/AR2008052802918.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A year after Jimmy Carter lost his reelection race to Ronald Reagan, Hamilton Jordan, Carter's former White House chief of staff, sat down for a lengthy interview with scholars at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411172146191" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411172146191" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Hamilton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jordan's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Message]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jimmy Carter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iowa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hamilton Jordan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eugene McCarthy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Evan Bayh]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fred Harris]]></category><category><![CDATA[George McGovern]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hubert Humphrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Edwards (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Morris Udall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sargent Shriver]]></category><category><![CDATA[Walter Mondale]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Let the Veepstakes Begin ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/23/AR2008052302430.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/23/AR2008052302430.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ With perfect timing, John McCain has signaled the opening of the vice presidential speculation season, just as the last dregs of suspense are being drained from the marathon presidential contest. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Let]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Veepstakes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Begin]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charlie Crist]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Nixon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spiro Agnew]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sedona (Arizona)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bobby Jindal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edward Rendell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hamilton Jordan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jack Reed]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jimmy Carter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jody Powell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lyndon Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Bloomberg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rob Portman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ted Strickland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Pawlenty]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rhode Island]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ No Other Like Him ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/20/AR2008052001570.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/20/AR2008052001570.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Not since the day almost 45 years ago, when word reached Washington that his brother John had been cut down in Dallas, has there been news about an individual that struck so deep a blow to so many in this capital. The bulletin from Massachusetts General Hospital about Sen. Ted Kennedy was at once a personal tragedy and a political cataclysm. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[No]]></category><category><![CDATA[Other]]></category><category><![CDATA[Like]]></category><category><![CDATA[Him]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edward M. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dallas]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mary McGrory]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philip Hart]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Massachusetts General Hospital]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Wall Of Worry For the GOP ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/16/AR2008051603433.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/16/AR2008051603433.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ One way of measuring the current miserable state of the Republican Party is to note that in the past 10 weeks, 55 years of Republican seniority in the House of Representatives were wiped out in three special elections. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Worry]]></category><category><![CDATA[For]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mississippi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Cole]]></category><category><![CDATA[Louisiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House of Representatives]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dennis Hastert]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeremiah Wright]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jimmy Carter]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Anzalone]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Boehner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kentucky]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oklahoma]]></category><category><![CDATA[West Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ For Obama, a Lost Moment ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/14/AR2008051403087.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/14/AR2008051403087.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Barack Obama really didn't need a victory in West Virginia. He was already well on his way to wrapping up the Democratic nomination, and the 28 delegates at stake were not going to change that picture, no matter how that primary came out.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411172148513" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411172148513" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[For]]></category><category><![CDATA[Obama,]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lost]]></category><category><![CDATA[Moment]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edward M. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hubert Humphrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[West Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wisconsin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kenosha]]></category><category><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lyndon Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Milwaukee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Racine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Raleigh County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Byrd]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kentucky]]></category><category><![CDATA[Minnesota]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Smith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ben Smith]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Price of Delay ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/09/AR2008050902042.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/09/AR2008050902042.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Three days after last Tuesday's primaries seemingly tilted the Democratic presidential nomination decisively toward Barack Obama, the surprising fact was that almost half the party's senators had not announced a choice between him and Hillary Clinton. Twenty-one of the 49 Democratic senators were publicly silent as the last six primaries approached. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Price]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Delay]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Durbin]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hubert Humphrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Nixon]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pat Brown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Two Weeks of Trivia ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/07/AR2008050703188.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/07/AR2008050703188.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The endless Democratic presidential campaign has lurched from irrelevance to trivia, triggering a near-universal call to bring it to a halt. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Two]]></category><category><![CDATA[Weeks]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Trivia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeremiah Wright]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Gore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dennis Kucinich]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Kerry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wellesley College]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yale Law School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iowa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kentucky]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montana]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Dakota]]></category><category><![CDATA[West Virginia]]></category></item>
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