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		<title>By: libbyliberal</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/07/john-mccain-fighter/#comment-1619984</link>
		<dc:creator>libbyliberal</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Wow… getting exciting. Thanks.  Hope all is well.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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		<title>By: Cacambo</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/07/john-mccain-fighter/#comment-1619629</link>
		<dc:creator>Cacambo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:09:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Cinnamanope already laid down the trump card: Obama might appoint centrist Supreme Court Judges, so there!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Biden is a notorious fighter for working people by keeping their neighborhoods free of the scourge of unauthorized chemicals - lets recall before they thought of the open-ended war against the tactic of Terrorism, there was the war against the absorption of mind altering substances, the Global War on (Some) Drugs.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As Kevin Zeese says:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;As for the war on Drugs, Zeese says, “Pick a drug law you don’t like from the last 25 years and thank Sen. Joe Biden. He deserves a lot of the credit for the U.S., with 5% of the world’s population, having 25% of the world’s prisoners —-and the racially disproportionate impact of the drug laws.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;As Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Biden was responsible for the mandatory minimum sentencing guidelines passed in 1986. “The Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984 had forced judges to harshly sentence within a narrow range,” Zeese recounts. “So Biden knew in ‘86 that mandatory sentences were not needed… But he pushed for and passed mandatory sentencing anyway, because that’s what the narcs and prosecutors wanted. He held hearings at which they got opportunity to testify while opponents of mandatory minimums were kept out.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mandatory minimum sentences have safely locked away countless moms and dads, teaching their kids about plucky self-sufficiency … thanks Joe!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And the proper thanks is, of course, unquestioning support for the Obama-Biden ticket - thats the only way they will respect us!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cinnamanope already laid down the trump card: Obama might appoint centrist Supreme Court Judges, so there!</p>
<p>Biden is a notorious fighter for working people by keeping their neighborhoods free of the scourge of unauthorized chemicals &#8211; lets recall before they thought of the open-ended war against the tactic of Terrorism, there was the war against the absorption of mind altering substances, the Global War on (Some) Drugs.</p>
<p>As Kevin Zeese says:</p>
<blockquote><p>As for the war on Drugs, Zeese says, “Pick a drug law you don’t like from the last 25 years and thank Sen. Joe Biden. He deserves a lot of the credit for the U.S., with 5% of the world’s population, having 25% of the world’s prisoners —-and the racially disproportionate impact of the drug laws.”</p>
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<blockquote><p>As Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Biden was responsible for the mandatory minimum sentencing guidelines passed in 1986. “The Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984 had forced judges to harshly sentence within a narrow range,” Zeese recounts. “So Biden knew in ‘86 that mandatory sentences were not needed… But he pushed for and passed mandatory sentencing anyway, because that’s what the narcs and prosecutors wanted. He held hearings at which they got opportunity to testify while opponents of mandatory minimums were kept out.”</p>
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<p>Mandatory minimum sentences have safely locked away countless moms and dads, teaching their kids about plucky self-sufficiency … thanks Joe!</p>
<p>And the proper thanks is, of course, unquestioning support for the Obama-Biden ticket &#8211; thats the only way they will respect us!</p>
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		<title>By: demi</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/07/john-mccain-fighter/#comment-1619624</link>
		<dc:creator>demi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Hey, Dakine.  “Bad Form” is a restrained term.&lt;br /&gt;
You and know that there are some commenters of this site who are not here this am.  Oh, man, can you imagine what kind of responses we would have jeered/cheered/grimaced and applauded?  You’re a good man.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey, Dakine.  “Bad Form” is a restrained term.<br />
You and know that there are some commenters of this site who are not here this am.  Oh, man, can you imagine what kind of responses we would have jeered/cheered/grimaced and applauded?  You’re a good man.</p>
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		<title>By: demi</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/07/john-mccain-fighter/#comment-1619622</link>
		<dc:creator>demi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I was once where most of you now are. But I studied, and I learned. You can too.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Don’t just accept what you are told. There is alot at stake. Don’t put your implicit trust in anyone, not even me. Do your own research. Good luck!&lt;br /&gt;
I’m sure you’ve learned a lot, but there’s always more to be learned.&lt;br /&gt;
For one, coming on this site and telling everyone not to trust the MSM, shows that there is still a learning curve for you.&lt;br /&gt;
Here’s a hint.  Coming into someone else’s kitchen and dissing their cooking is not going to want them to sample yours.  It just is not going to happen.&lt;br /&gt;
I’m happy that you feel so enlightened.  Best of luck on your site, but you may want to rethink your marketing strategies.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>I was once where most of you now are. But I studied, and I learned. You can too.</em></p>
<p>Don’t just accept what you are told. There is alot at stake. Don’t put your implicit trust in anyone, not even me. Do your own research. Good luck!<br />
I’m sure you’ve learned a lot, but there’s always more to be learned.<br />
For one, coming on this site and telling everyone not to trust the MSM, shows that there is still a learning curve for you.<br />
Here’s a hint.  Coming into someone else’s kitchen and dissing their cooking is not going to want them to sample yours.  It just is not going to happen.<br />
I’m happy that you feel so enlightened.  Best of luck on your site, but you may want to rethink your marketing strategies.</p>
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		<title>By: theExile</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/07/john-mccain-fighter/#comment-1619618</link>
		<dc:creator>theExile</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;If he had been an economic conservative who believed that family and religious issues were private matters it would be a different situation.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;BINGO!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>If he had been an economic conservative who believed that family and religious issues were private matters it would be a different situation.<br />
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<p>BINGO!</p>
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		<title>By: dakine01</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/07/john-mccain-fighter/#comment-1619605</link>
		<dc:creator>dakine01</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Sheila,&lt;br /&gt;
FWIW, it’s generally considered bad form to “blog whore” more than once a day.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If your blog can stand on it’s own without that, you’ll get traffic.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If it can’t you won’t get traffic.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I didn’t go back and count but I think this is at least the third link/comment about your blog on this thread alone.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sheila,<br />
FWIW, it’s generally considered bad form to “blog whore” more than once a day.</p>
<p>If your blog can stand on it’s own without that, you’ll get traffic.</p>
<p>If it can’t you won’t get traffic.</p>
<p>I didn’t go back and count but I think this is at least the third link/comment about your blog on this thread alone.</p>
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		<title>By: SheilaCasey</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/07/john-mccain-fighter/#comment-1619595</link>
		<dc:creator>SheilaCasey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;I’ve given up on “lesser evil” voting. I want to vote my conscience, even though my vote means nothing.  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Of course I don’t think x years of experience qualifies one for POTUS. I never implied that.  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But there is a larger pattern to be seen for those who care to connect the dots.  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Gore won in 2000 but never asked for a full recount.  Why?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Kerry won Ohio in 2004 but the rigged election threw it to Bush and he never contested it.  Why?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What has the Dem majority in the Senate and Congress done for us?  I fought tooth and nail to make that happen…it got us nowhere.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sheilacasey.com/2006/11/democratic_jugg.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;See my second blog post, from November 2006:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;November 08, 2006&lt;br /&gt;
Democratic Juggernaut&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What is this joy that fills our hearts? Don’t confuse it with the exuberance of sportsfans, painted in gaudy colors, bellowing because their side won. When he moves to another city, that fan will yell just as loudly for a new team.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is no shallow bolstering of ego derived from aligning with a winner. It’s much deeper, much purer. It’s about right and wrong. Many of us have been suffering the awful pain of seeing the country we love morph into a monster before our eyes: a lying, treacherous, invading, torturing, incompetent, greedy and arrogant beast that had gobbled up so much power it was tossing every challenger aside with a shrug. We feared it might have so gamed the system, that it couldn’t be beaten.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But it was! There is a God.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dems are not saints. They won’t be perfect. But they’ll stop the monster — that’s all that matters right now.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We were sliding ever closer to facism. We were a danger to ourselves and others.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I was once where most of you now are.  But I studied, and I learned. You can too.  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Don’t just accept what you are told.  There is alot at stake.  Don’t put your implicit trust in anyone, not even me.  Do your own research. Good luck!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I’ve given up on “lesser evil” voting. I want to vote my conscience, even though my vote means nothing.  </p>
<p>Of course I don’t think x years of experience qualifies one for POTUS. I never implied that.  </p>
<p>But there is a larger pattern to be seen for those who care to connect the dots.  </p>
<p>Gore won in 2000 but never asked for a full recount.  Why?</p>
<p>Kerry won Ohio in 2004 but the rigged election threw it to Bush and he never contested it.  Why?</p>
<p>What has the Dem majority in the Senate and Congress done for us?  I fought tooth and nail to make that happen…it got us nowhere.  <a href="http://www.sheilacasey.com/2006/11/democratic_jugg.html" rel="nofollow">See my second blog post, from November 2006:</a></p>
<blockquote><p>November 08, 2006<br />
Democratic Juggernaut</p>
<p>What is this joy that fills our hearts? Don’t confuse it with the exuberance of sportsfans, painted in gaudy colors, bellowing because their side won. When he moves to another city, that fan will yell just as loudly for a new team.</p>
<p>This is no shallow bolstering of ego derived from aligning with a winner. It’s much deeper, much purer. It’s about right and wrong. Many of us have been suffering the awful pain of seeing the country we love morph into a monster before our eyes: a lying, treacherous, invading, torturing, incompetent, greedy and arrogant beast that had gobbled up so much power it was tossing every challenger aside with a shrug. We feared it might have so gamed the system, that it couldn’t be beaten.</p>
<p>But it was! There is a God.</p>
<p>Dems are not saints. They won’t be perfect. But they’ll stop the monster — that’s all that matters right now.</p>
<p>We were sliding ever closer to facism. We were a danger to ourselves and others.  </p>
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<p>I was once where most of you now are.  But I studied, and I learned. You can too.  </p>
<p>Don’t just accept what you are told.  There is alot at stake.  Don’t put your implicit trust in anyone, not even me.  Do your own research. Good luck!</p>
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		<title>By: nahant</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/07/john-mccain-fighter/#comment-1619593</link>
		<dc:creator>nahant</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Thanks demi but her true instrument is her voice… just ask a few on the late late night whom I have sent her soprano piece of the “Lord Nelson Mass in D Minor” Joseph Hayden… she sang it with her choir in May 06… drew tears from many&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks demi but her true instrument is her voice… just ask a few on the late late night whom I have sent her soprano piece of the “Lord Nelson Mass in D Minor” Joseph Hayden… she sang it with her choir in May 06… drew tears from many</p>
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		<title>By: cinnamonape</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/07/john-mccain-fighter/#comment-1619592</link>
		<dc:creator>cinnamonape</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Some pics of Palin in fur.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.zieak.com/2007/05/21/governor-sarah-palin-and-the-vikings-and-valkyries/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Palin in fur Stoals&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.grizzlybay.org/SarahPalinInfoPage.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Palin Speaking before group with wolf pelt regalia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hey kids! Ever think that Palin ever thinks about orphanned wolf-cubs? &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Something tells me that “Jungle Book”, “Born Free”, and “The Lion King” aren’t high on the DVD’s shown in the Palin household!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some pics of Palin in fur.<br /><a href="http://www.zieak.com/2007/05/21/governor-sarah-palin-and-the-vikings-and-valkyries/" rel="nofollow">Palin in fur Stoals</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.grizzlybay.org/SarahPalinInfoPage.htm" rel="nofollow">Palin Speaking before group with wolf pelt regalia</a></p>
<p>Hey kids! Ever think that Palin ever thinks about orphanned wolf-cubs? </p>
<p>Something tells me that “Jungle Book”, “Born Free”, and “The Lion King” aren’t high on the DVD’s shown in the Palin household!</p>
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		<title>By: SouthernDragon</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/07/john-mccain-fighter/#comment-1619587</link>
		<dc:creator>SouthernDragon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Geez, and I’ve been talking about we’ll still be wearing short and t-shirts in January this time around.  Our illustrious visitors from the north won’t like it a bit.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Geez, and I’ve been talking about we’ll still be wearing short and t-shirts in January this time around.  Our illustrious visitors from the north won’t like it a bit.</p>
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