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	<description>a wind to shake the world</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Republicans in Minnesota, a revisit</title>
		<link>http://palimpsest.net/2008/09/08/republicans-in-minnesota-a-revisit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michael o. allen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend, Chiara, sent me this note on Thursday, the final day of the Republican National Convention. I managed to miss the note and I&#8217;m offering it now for your consideration.
Last night, my sister-in-law, Joyce, a nurse, mother of three, and grandmother  of many, wrote to a number of us in the family to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An apology</title>
		<link>http://palimpsest.net/2008/09/08/an-apology-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:16:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michael o. allen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I concluded a post two days ago with a word that I meant to be derogatory:
Next to Sen. Barack Obama, Sarah Palin and Rudy Giuliani, with their Republican National Convention comments, showed themselves to be pygmies indeed.
Although the term &#8220;pygmies&#8221; is commonly used to refer to a member of any human group whose adult males [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did Sarah Palin really say that?!?</title>
		<link>http://palimpsest.net/2008/09/07/did-sarah-palin-really-say-that/</link>
		<comments>http://palimpsest.net/2008/09/07/did-sarah-palin-really-say-that/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Sells</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Gawd, I hope this isn&#8217;t true.  There&#8217;s a rumor circulating around the internet today that Governor Palin used racist and sexist slurs to refer to Senators Obama and Clinton:
So Sambo beat the bitch.
The rumor is thinly sourced to a woman named &#8220;Lucille,&#8221; who allegedly overheard the governor make the statement at a diner in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Community organizing</title>
		<link>http://palimpsest.net/2008/09/06/community-organizing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michael o. allen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Susan B. Anthony helped guarantee women&#8217;s suffrage in the United States.

Sen. Barack Obama defends himself against Republicans

Martin Luther King Jr.&#8217;s moral vision led the way in the struggle for civil rights and economic justice

Then this from Daily Kos:

Catholic worker Dorothy Day was fiercely saintly in work for peace and to alleviate poverty

Mohandas Gandhi peacefully led [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Community organizers</title>
		<link>http://palimpsest.net/2008/09/06/community-organizers/</link>
		<comments>http://palimpsest.net/2008/09/06/community-organizers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michael o. allen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The nation&#8217;s backbone

At last week&#8217;s Republican convention, I was not surprised to see the Republicans mock community organizing. After all, why would they need organizers in their neighborhoods? They&#8217;re all doing well; this economy has obviously worked well for them! Obama said that McCain &#8220;doesn&#8217;t get it&#8221; and that&#8217;s true. But in regard to community [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Private family matters</title>
		<link>http://palimpsest.net/2008/09/06/private-family-matters-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michael o. allen</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Fiscal Conservatives vs. Tax &#038; Spend Liberals</title>
		<link>http://palimpsest.net/2008/09/06/fiscal-conservatives-vs-tax-spend-liberals/</link>
		<comments>http://palimpsest.net/2008/09/06/fiscal-conservatives-vs-tax-spend-liberals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:54:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michael o. allen</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Following a script</title>
		<link>http://palimpsest.net/2008/09/06/following-a-script/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michael o. allen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Method to the FOX madness . . . but will it work?

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		<title>Twin Peaks</title>
		<link>http://palimpsest.net/2008/09/05/twin-peaks/</link>
		<comments>http://palimpsest.net/2008/09/05/twin-peaks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michael o. allen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Along with the prego teen daughter, trying to fire everyone who ever crossed her, views that are out of the mainstream with most Americans, among other things, it turns out Sarah Palin&#8217;s bulging and very colorful closet may spill yet more secrets.
Andrew Sullivan says: Todd Palin&#8217;s former business partner files an emergency motion to have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Change agents!</title>
		<link>http://palimpsest.net/2008/09/05/change-agents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michael o. allen</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>A Choice</title>
		<link>http://palimpsest.net/2008/09/05/a-choice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:42:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michael o. allen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Bristol Palin&#8217;s Choice

Bristol Palin has made the decision to have her baby, but Samantha Bee tries to  remember another word for it.
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		<title>Question</title>
		<link>http://palimpsest.net/2008/09/05/question/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michael o. allen</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://palimpsest.net/?p=597</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Does it matter that Sen. John McCain, (R-AZ), is, at best, a spent force who mortgaged any ideals and principles he might have had in a Faustian bargain for the Republican Party nomination for president of the United States?
It was painful watching McCain last night and then listening to the empty suit media types prattle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dick Cheney with Lipstick?</title>
		<link>http://palimpsest.net/2008/09/05/dick-cheney-with-lipstick/</link>
		<comments>http://palimpsest.net/2008/09/05/dick-cheney-with-lipstick/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michael o. allen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Central Virginia Progressive-The DAVISReport sent us this message:
I&#8217;ve got to give her props, Sarah Palin has redefined chutzpah.
There is something very unseemly about this self described pit bull mom. As the mother of three daughters and the aunt of a special needs child this woman is really making me angry. Will this woman stop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on the Palin speech</title>
		<link>http://palimpsest.net/2008/09/04/thoughts-on-the-palin-speech/</link>
		<comments>http://palimpsest.net/2008/09/04/thoughts-on-the-palin-speech/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Sells</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If I had to pick one word to summarize my impression of Gov. Palin&#8217;s speech tonight, it would be &#8220;shrill.&#8221;  It was a fiercely partisan speech, a mocking speech, a culture-war speech.  It was ably written and ably delivered, but it came with a sneer.  While it may be the kind of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Palin-gate</title>
		<link>http://palimpsest.net/2008/09/03/palin-gate/</link>
		<comments>http://palimpsest.net/2008/09/03/palin-gate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michael o. allen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[What some conservatives are saying about the Palin selection

TalkingPointsMemo had a the transcript &#8230;
Chuck Todd: Mike Murphy, lots of free advice, we&#8217;ll see if Steve Schmidt and the boys were watching. We&#8217;ll find out on your blackberry. Tonight voters will get their chance to hear from Sarah Palin and she will get the chance to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Denver recap</title>
		<link>http://palimpsest.net/2008/09/01/a-denver-recap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michael o. allen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Gov. Ted Strickland (D-OH)

The Ohio governor, Ted Strickland, got off the best, unheard line of the Convention when he said that, unlike George H. W. Bush, who was born on third base and thought he hit a triple, George W. was born on third base and stole second.
&#8211;David Remnick, The New Yorker
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		<title>Another word on Obama in Denver</title>
		<link>http://palimpsest.net/2008/09/01/another-word-on-obama-in-denver/</link>
		<comments>http://palimpsest.net/2008/09/01/another-word-on-obama-in-denver/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:53:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michael o. allen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Excerpt . . .:
Obama has been more moving at the lectern—at the Convention in Boston four years ago, when he relied mainly on the story of his modest, yet remarkable, multicultural upbringing; at the victory party after the breakthrough win in Iowa, last January—but he has never described himself and his political vision with more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Palin, before being picked</title>
		<link>http://palimpsest.net/2008/09/01/palin-before-being-picked/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:27:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an interview with The New Yorker magazine two weeks before Sen. John McCain picked her as his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was sounding very much like an Obamacan:
Before she was running against him, Sarah Palin—the governor of Alaska and now the Republican candidate for Vice-President of the United States—thought it was pretty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From the weekend . . .</title>
		<link>http://palimpsest.net/2008/09/01/from-the-weekend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michael o. allen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[New York Times Op-Ed columnist Gail Collins had interesting thoughts on Sen. John McCain selecting Sarah Palin as his running mate:
It is conceivable that some people will think John McCain picked Sarah Palin  to be his running mate because she is a woman. I know you find this shocking,  but I swear I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>That Dog Won&#8217;t Hunt . . .</title>
		<link>http://palimpsest.net/2008/08/31/that-dog-wont-hunt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Central Virginia Progressive- The DAVISReport sent us this message:
Say hello to Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, John MCCain&#8217;s VP select ,the governor of a state where its citizens by birthright get checks sent to them up to a couple thousand a year, that represent oil profits gained on state owned land.
Yes Virginia, Alaska, the sparsely [...]]]></description>
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