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		<title>The Days of Wine and Oil-Soaked Roses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From The Dissident Voice
By Paul Dean
Our valiant Prez once again in a recent interview shared his insight with Americans that we are “addicted to oil.” The solution? Bush says the country needs to commit critical resources to drilling and oil infrastructure, and build more refineries in order to create more supply. Excellent. This kind of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Want Cheaper Gas and Oil? End the Damned Wars!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From This Can&#8217;t Be Happening
By Dave Lindorff
Americans are in a panic over rising gas and heating oil prices, and with reason. For months, the price of a barrel of crude oil has been rising steadily, hitting a record $127 yesterday.
Analysts keep getting trotted out on TV and in print, attributing the dramatic price rise to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2008/05/17/want-cheaper-gas-and-oil-end-the-damned-wars/</link>
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		<title>The Double-Talk Express Derails</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From CounterPunch
By Robert Fantina
Arizona Senator and apparent Republican presidential nominee John McCain has been riding his so-called ‘Straight Talk Express’ for some time now, carting his frail, aging carcass about the countryside as he smilingly promises Americans four more years of misery. Yet his happy train was derailed this week, when he lapsed into fairy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2008/05/17/the-double-talk-express-derails/</link>
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		<title>Moyers: &#8216;Democracy in America Is a Series of Narrow Escapes, and We May Be Running Out of Luck&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From AlterNet
By Bill Moyers
Democracy in America is a series of narrow escapes, and we may be running out of luck. The reigning presumption about the American experience, as the historian Lawrence Goodwyn has written, is grounded in the idea of progress, the conviction that the present is &#8220;better&#8221; than the past and the future will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2008/05/17/moyers-democracy-in-america-is-a-series-of-narrow-escapes-and-we-may-be-running-out-of-luck/</link>
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		<title>Hard Roads Ahead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From NY Times
By Bob Herbert
Walt Disney would have been proud of John McCain’s presentation on Thursday of what the world might look like at the end of a first McCain term as president.
Listening to the speech was like walking through the gates of Fantasyland, which Disney always said was the happiest kingdom of them all. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2008/05/17/hard-roads-ahead/</link>
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		<title>The Republican Strategy Backfires</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From The Boston Globe
By Derrick Z. Jackson
In Mississippi this week, the Republicans lost a congressional seat they held since 1994. This followed the loss of a congressional seat in Louisiana that they held since 1974. They lost both special elections after trying to cut and paste Barack Obama over the Democratic candidate.
In a northern Mississippi [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ronald Reagan: Chamberlainian Appeaser of the 1980s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Salon
By Glenn Greenwald
One of the most significant political developments over the last decade or so is that the defining views of what was once the extremist right-wing fringe have become mainstream. Few things illustrate that development more than this week&#8217;s branding by George Bush, John McCain and Bill Kristol of Barack Obama (and anyone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2008/05/17/ronald-reagan-chamberlainian-appeaser-of-the-1980s/</link>
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		<title>Bush&#8217;s Appeasement Malarkey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From The Boston Globe
Editorial
When he hinted to the Israeli Knesset this week that Barack Obama was an appeaser for being willing to talk to Iran, President Bush broke an unwritten rule against partisan politicking on foreign shores. He also displayed confusion about his own policies - and about the cause of his calamitous foreign policy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2008/05/17/bushs-appeasement-malarkey/</link>
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		<title>Negotiating Isn&#8217;t Appeasement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From The LA Times
By J. Peter Scobli
In a speech to the Israeli parliament Thursday, President Bush took a swipe at Barack Obama for his willingness to negotiate with evil regimes.
&#8220;Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2008/05/17/negotiating-isnt-appeasement/</link>
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		<title>Court Appeals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From The Dissident Voice
By Ian Williams
John Bolton’s political body lies a moulderin’ in his grave, and Condoleezza Rice’s state department is jumping all over it. The rebarbative former unconfirmed US ambassador the UN has spent his time since leaving attacking the Bush administration’s softness on foreign policy in terms that would make him a poster [...]]]></description>
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