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	<title>Crikey &#187; Barack Obama</title>
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		<title>Health debate reveals the marvel of Mr Jefferson&#8217;s machine</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/23/rundle-health-debate-reveals-the-marvel-of-mr-jeffersons-machine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/23/rundle-health-debate-reveals-the-marvel-of-mr-jeffersons-machine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among Thomas Jefferson's achievements was the invention of the swivel chair, and it's in that spirit that one now regards the next step in Barack Obama's long march to a health-care Bill.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Obama in danger of Hoovering the economy</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/obama-in-danger-of-hoovering-the-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/obama-in-danger-of-hoovering-the-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ben Bernanke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Timothy Geithner]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ringmasters of Obama’s economic policy must go. Obama is becoming another Hoover, incapable of turning from the advice of the money masters, writes <b>David Hirst</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>VIDEO: Obama does Fox News</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/video-obama-does-fox-news/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/video-obama-does-fox-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[TV & Radio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fox News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White House vs. Fox News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=99878</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After <a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2009/11/200911192063466180.html">a nasty and public war of words</a> between the White House and Fox News, Barack Obama has finally appeared on the network, receiving a "lighting round" grilling from Fox's White House correspondent Major Garrett.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Congress to lift the ceiling on US&#8217; $12 trillion debt</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/19/congress-to-lift-the-ceiling-on-us-12-trillion-debt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/19/congress-to-lift-the-ceiling-on-us-12-trillion-debt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US debt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The $12 billion US government debt may force Congress to engage in a brawl with the President that could see the government shut down. It could also lead the Obama administration to produce the toughest Budget in a decade, with massive spending cuts.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rundle: a win to Obama, but the Senate battle awaits</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/09/rundle-a-win-to-obama-but-the-senate-battle-awaits/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/09/rundle-a-win-to-obama-but-the-senate-battle-awaits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Affordable Health Care Act 2009]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama has won a victory in the health care campaign, the first serious universal health care bill to get through a House of Congress ever. But, his real test will be in the upper house.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>G20 dreaming on economic upturn</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/09/g20-dreaming-on-economic-upturn/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/09/g20-dreaming-on-economic-upturn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[G20]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[us unemployment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Finance ministers of the world's top 20 economies have indulged in one of the more fruitless gabfests. Instead of being united by fear and concern for the slow US economy, they are just linked by their usual competing interests,.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Talking the Town: John Pilger receives the Sydney Peace Prize</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/06/talking-the-town-john-pilger-receives-the-sydney-peace-prize/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/06/talking-the-town-john-pilger-receives-the-sydney-peace-prize/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot Saville</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[People & Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Pilger, winner of the Sydney Peace Prize, has always positioned himself as outside the mainstream media. But his age and location – he hasn’t lived in Australia since the early 1960s – mean that his criticisms of the local media are outdated.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>25</slash:comments>
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		<title>One year in: Obama&#8217;s own words</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/05/one-year-in-obamas-own-words/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/05/one-year-in-obamas-own-words/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Obama: one year in]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It was one year ago today that Barack Obama was elected to the presidency. Now, he rallies the troops, encouraging more community action and engagement with issues. It's like the campaign never ended!]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s long retreat to Jersey</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/03/rundle-obamas-long-retreat-to-jersey/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/03/rundle-obamas-long-retreat-to-jersey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A smattering of gubernatorial and legislative races in the US this November are being seen as a big test for Barack Obama -- even though they're not a predictor of anything much at all.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Stop the press: Barack Obama played golf with a woman!</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/26/stop-the-press-barack-obama-played-golf-with-a-woman/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/26/stop-the-press-barack-obama-played-golf-with-a-woman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amber Jamieson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[lazy journalism]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=95173</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[US news outlets are covering all the big issues in American politics and gender equality, providing blanket coverage of President Barack Obama's historic golf game -- <em>with a woman</em>!]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Fox News vs. The White House: it&#8217;s on</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/22/fox-news-v-the-white-house-its-on/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/22/fox-news-v-the-white-house-its-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey Intern</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[TV & Radio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[david axelrod]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Glenn Beck]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A bloody fight is brewing in the US media. In the blue corner, the White House. In the red corner, Fox News. Will Obama's message of hope beat the the right wing shock jocks in submission? asks <b>Aaron Flanagan</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Dope reform a sign of Obama&#8217;s worth and intent</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/22/rundle-dope-reform-a-sign-of-obamas-worth-and-intent/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/22/rundle-dope-reform-a-sign-of-obamas-worth-and-intent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama has transformed the US overnight, from a country with one of the harshest anti-dope regimes, to one with some of the most liberal in the world.

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		<title>Nuclear Power is your friend!</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/15/first-dog-on-the-moon-423/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/15/first-dog-on-the-moon-423/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Firstdog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[apparently]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Time to move beyond the rhetorical Obama</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/13/rundle-time-to-move-beyond-the-rhetorical-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/13/rundle-time-to-move-beyond-the-rhetorical-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama is steering to the middle of the road for political reasons: he wants the fight to be about something other than him. And whatever else was stuffing up, he was making some progress. And then came the call from Oslo...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s first great presidential mistake</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/13/crikey-says-106/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/13/crikey-says-106/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crikey Says]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Nobel Peace Prize should mark substantial, actual achievement in the cause of peace. So why did Barack Obama get it? So far his greatest act has been to get elected.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>A peace prize for the president of war</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/12/a-peace-prize-for-the-president-of-war/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/12/a-peace-prize-for-the-president-of-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Sparrow</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[nobel peace prize]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear weapons]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama wins a Nobel peace prize AND may escalate a war? Well, we live in post-ironical times, where we all dutifully believe six impossible things before breakfast. Like, nuclear weapons are ultimately peaceful.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>VIDEO: Obama vows to end &#8220;don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/11/video-obama-vows-to-end-dont-ask-dont-tell/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/11/video-obama-vows-to-end-dont-ask-dont-tell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 10:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125522141307378387.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsTop">delivered</a> a passionate speech to America's largest gay civil rights group on the weekend, pledging to end the US military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on homosexuals. Watch the full speech here.]]></description>
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		<title>Happy, healthy Obamas out of touch with ordinary Americans</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/06/happy-healthy-obamas-out-of-touch-with-ordinary-americans/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/06/happy-healthy-obamas-out-of-touch-with-ordinary-americans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obamas&#8217; basketball-playing, organic home-grown food-eating ways just don&#8217;t sit well with the &#8220;core American values&#8221; of being out of shape and unhappy. The Onion&#8217;s team of crack panelists have some ideas on how they can be brought back down to Earth.

Poll: Happy, Healthy Obamas Out Of Touch With Miserable Americans
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		<title>VIDEO: Glenn Beck: Blame Godlessness for America&#8217;s problems</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/02/video-glenn-beck-blame-godlessness-for-americas-problems/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/02/video-glenn-beck-blame-godlessness-for-americas-problems/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fox News shock jock Glenn Beck has found the cause for America's ills: everyone has turned their back on God, and is now worshipping Barack Hussein Obama. ]]></description>
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		<title>A taste of the Fairfax future</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/01/richard-farmers-chunky-bits-13/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/01/richard-farmers-chunky-bits-13/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<em>The Sun</em> has come out against Gordon Brown this morning, nicely timing it to coincide with his address at his party's national conference. Plus, what happened to <em>The Canberra Times</em>?]]></description>
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		<title>Not quite yet for interest rates</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/30/richard-farmers-chunky-bits-12/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/30/richard-farmers-chunky-bits-12/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The day of increased interest rates must have moved considerably closer this morning when the economic pundits were again surprised by the strength of the Australian economy.]]></description>
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		<title>Obama running out of Mid-East options</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/24/obama-running-out-of-mid-east-options/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/24/obama-running-out-of-mid-east-options/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tone from Washington has changed this year: there is a note of urgency and real rather than manufactured impatience with Israeli policy, notably on the West Bank settlements.]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s speech night at the UN summit: Gaddafi goes off</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/24/its-speech-night-at-the-un-summit-gaddafi-goes-off/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/24/its-speech-night-at-the-un-summit-gaddafi-goes-off/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Nethercote</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Which politician hasn't been at a podium somewhere in the past 24 hours spouting their own brand of rhetoric? ]]></description>
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		<title>Saree Makdisi: Obama won&#8217;t solve the Middle East crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/24/saree-makdisi-obama-wont-solve-the-middle-east-crisis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/24/saree-makdisi-obama-wont-solve-the-middle-east-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Antony Loewenstein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[About 200 people packed into Sydney University’s Seymour Centre on Tuesday night to hear Saree Makdisi speak about options for ending the Middle East crisis -- and the crowd was diverse.]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Days in the White House, starring President Fonzie</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/24/happy-days-in-the-white-house-starring-president-fonzie/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/24/happy-days-in-the-white-house-starring-president-fonzie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Sparrow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<i>The Oz</i> jumps on the "let's beat 'em up" bandwagon with support for a tougher, leather-clad Fonz in the White House.]]></description>
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