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	<title>SmartRemarks &#187; Obama</title>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Supreme Court: still drifting to the right</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/05/obamas-supreme-court-still-drifting-to-the-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 22:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why? Why does a presidential administration that came into office on the diligent labor and fervent hopes of progressives continue to send progressives the message that it doesn&#8217;t need them, indeed that it doesn&#8217;t even care what they think, that their principles and passions are nothing more than chips to be bargained away as evidence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orwellian or Kafkaesque? I can&#8217;t decide.</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/04/orwellian-or-kafkaesque-i-cant-decide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Either way, it&#8217;s definitely disturbing, and (a term I don&#8217;t often use) un-American.
What is? The fact that the Obama White House has ordered the CIA to assassinate an American citizen, wherever and whenever he may be found. A man who&#8217;s been charged with no crime, much less convicted of one.
The ostensible reason? &#8220;Terrorism,&#8221; of course.
That [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health care is making me sick</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/03/health-care-is-making-me-sick/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=1814</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As the health care reform debate enters what appears to be the home stretch (albeit not for the first time), what Washington is offering us (the citizenry) boils down to a choice between bad and worse. The legislation now under consideration, both the Senate bill and the slight variation on same presented as &#8220;Obama&#8217;s bill,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I find ten years have got behind me</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/02/i-find-ten-years-have-got-behind-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:14:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And no one told me when to run&#8230; that&#8217;s for damn sure.
New Year&#8217;s came and went without me writing a blog post. I was preoccupied with other things at the time, as detailed to some extent in my last couple of entries bookending my computer headaches. But I did make some observations that I think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laugh so you don&#8217;t weep (at the wingnut insanity)</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/09/laugh-so-you-dont-weep-at-the-wingnut-insanity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=1731</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the midst of the cesspool of paranoia and paralogia into which the ranting right is dragging so much of our political discourse these days&#8230; the latest iterations thereof being the Fox-driven hypocritical demagoguery about ACORN, and (even worse) the WSJ&#8217;s incredible suggestion that this(!) of all things somehow merits a special prosecutor&#8230;
&#8230;a reader comment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s speech and the &#8220;reset button&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/09/obamas-speech-and-the-reset-button/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/09/obamas-speech-and-the-reset-button/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, where did I leave off?
&#8230;That&#8217;s right, there was a speech Wednesday night. A pretty significant one, in fact, for reasons I described at some length.
What of it, then?
I can&#8217;t deny that it was a very, very good speech. Rhetorically powerful. And yet, what it says about the direction of health care policy, and thus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uncertainty, Obama, and the nagging voice of cynicism</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/09/uncertainty-obama-and-the-nagging-voice-of-cynicism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[August is a strange season in politics. In the final weeks of summer last year, we had the incredible (and incredibly short-lived) public buzz surrounding Sarah Palin, before people realized she just used those glasses for looks, not reading. This year&#8217;s dog days brought us hordes of astroturf Teabagger Republicans demonstrating that they think public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Torture, shame, and people who lack it</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/08/torture-shame-and-people-who-lack-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The CIA Inspector General&#8217;s report on U.S. torture of detainees was released this week (under court order, thanks to a diligent ACLU lawsuit, after five years hidden from public view). The timing dovetails with Attorney General Holder&#8217;s decision to launch an investigation of that torture (albeit a tightly constrained one).
The conduct detailed in the report is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some thoughts on health care and hypocrisy</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/08/some-thoughts-on-health-care-and-hypocrisy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One could go on at literally exhaustive length about the ins and outs of the current &#8220;health care debate&#8221; in Washington, but I&#8217;ll try to avoid that. The media and the blogosphere have provided a constant play-by-play in terms of both substantive policy and, even more, political strategy. (Jonathan Chait at TNR has been particularly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summing up the critique of Obama</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/07/summing-up-the-critique-of-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:14:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New Republic isn&#8217;t the place to look for progressive opinion these days (especially on matter of foreign policy), but every once in a while it does offer a reminder of why it used to be considered a liberal magazine. Most recently, TNR&#8217;s Ed Kilgore produced quite possibly the best and most succinct summary to [...]]]></description>
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