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	<title>Crikey &#187; George Bush Jr</title>
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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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		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Bush Jr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greg Sheridan]]></category>
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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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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rundle: The death of the neo-cons</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/21/rundle-the-death-of-the-neo-cons/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/21/rundle-the-death-of-the-neo-cons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Bush Jr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irving Kristol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neo cons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neo conservatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ronald reagan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though neoconservatives came to most people's attention during the Dubya era, their imperial purple was undoubtedly the Reagan years. The death of Irving Kristol rules a line across one era of the American intellectual right. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>Who gives the best Rudd? A Kruddy lookalike round-up</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/15/who-gives-the-best-rudd-a-kruddy-lookalike-round-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/15/who-gives-the-best-rudd-a-kruddy-lookalike-round-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mel Campbell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Bush Jr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[political impersonators]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[political satire]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone with a peach-coloured swimming cap and some cotton-wool eyebrows could conceivably ‘do’ John Howard. But the less distinctive Kevin Rudd poses more of an impersonator challenge.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>First the neo-cons praise Iran, now they want to bomb them</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/03/first-the-neo-cons-praise-iran-now-they-want-to-bomb-them/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/03/first-the-neo-cons-praise-iran-now-they-want-to-bomb-them/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Sparrow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Bush Jr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Bolton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neo cons]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With the protests in Iran ebbing away, get ready for a change in approach from the neo-cons. Yesterday they sung the praises of the Iranian people. Now they want to bomb them.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8220;Nerd Prom&#8221; becomes &#8220;Golden Globes&#8221; under Obama</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/11/nerd-prom-becomes-golden-globes-under-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/11/nerd-prom-becomes-golden-globes-under-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 01:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video of the Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Bush Jr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obamania]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White House Correspondents' Association Dinner]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Obama's administration injected energy into this year's White House Correspondents' Association. dinner, transforming an event labelled the "nerd prom" into something more akin to the Golden Globes, says <em>Variety</em>. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Reporters prefer Obama to Bush, the proof</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/06/reporters-prefer-obama-to-bush-the-proof/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/06/reporters-prefer-obama-to-bush-the-proof/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 23:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video of the Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Bush Jr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White House]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This video, put together by Politico's Patrick Gavin, is making the rounds showing two presidential visits to the White House briefing room.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Obama is failing</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/24/rundle-obama-is-failing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/24/rundle-obama-is-failing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guy Rundle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Bush Jr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obamania]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Only the most blinkered Obamaniac would be getting any joy from The One's current performance.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Guantanamo: be the evil you want to see defeated</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/25/guantanamo-be-the-evil-you-want-to-see-defeated/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/25/guantanamo-be-the-evil-you-want-to-see-defeated/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Bush Jr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[guantanamo bay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[torture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war on terror]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mahatma Gandhi once said: "Be the change you want to see". But in George W Bush's so-called "war on terror", the extreme opposite applied, writes <b>Irfan Yusuf</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bob Carr bats for his mate Conrad Black</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/23/bob-carr-bats-for-his-mate-conrad-black/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/23/bob-carr-bats-for-his-mate-conrad-black/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Carr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conrad Black]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Bush Jr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hollinger international]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Why would the former Labor premier of NSW appeal for the freedom of such an undeserving swindler as Conrad Black? <b>Alex Mitchell</b> writes.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>American Idol: Obama&#8217;s TV ratings success</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/23/american-idol-obamas-tv-ratings-success/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/23/american-idol-obamas-tv-ratings-success/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media-Arts-and-Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Bush Jr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ronald reagan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[television]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US08]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama continues to be the biggest drawcard in US apart from the Super Bowl. He's certainly a bigger drawcard than Fox TV's American Idol, writes <b>Glenn Dyer</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rundle: the Obama reign begins</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/22/rundle-the-obama-reign-begins/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/22/rundle-the-obama-reign-begins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Bush Jr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[guantanamo bay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration has hit the ground running, writes <b>Guy Rundle</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Humpty Dumpty gang should take their great fall over Guantanamo</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/15/the-humpty-dumpty-gang-should-take-their-great-fall-over-guantanamo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/15/the-humpty-dumpty-gang-should-take-their-great-fall-over-guantanamo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Bush Jr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[guantanamo bay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[torture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Throughout the Bush years, politicians and the media, both in Australia and abroad, have been prepared to play brazen Alice in Wonderland games with definitions, writes <b>Jeff Sparrow</b>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Richard Farmer&#8217;s political bite-sized meaty chunks</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/07/richard-farmers-political-bite-sized-meaty-chunks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/07/richard-farmers-political-bite-sized-meaty-chunks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Bush Jr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Meaty snippets from the home of government by <b>Richard Farmer</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Farewell to Dubya, worst president ever</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/07/farewell-to-dubya-worst-president-ever/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/07/farewell-to-dubya-worst-president-ever/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Bush Jr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US08]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war in Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our laughter at the idiot who was cunning enough to steal the US presidency died in our throats as he set about inflicting profound damage on the rest of the world, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>George W. Bush: Midnight toker</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/17/george-w-bush-midnight-toker/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/17/george-w-bush-midnight-toker/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Brown</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Bush Jr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[midnight regulations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US08]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Much like an end-of-season footy trip, George Bush is ramming through a series of dubious last-minute rules that could be difficult to repeal, writes <b>Ruth Brown</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/17/george-w-bush-midnight-toker/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rundle: Dubya&#8217;s last days</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/15/rundle-dubyas-last-days/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/15/rundle-dubyas-last-days/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Bush Jr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[guantanamo bay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[september 11 2001]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taliban]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US08]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war in Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war in iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war on terror]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dubya is almost jaunty these days, as the sand runs out of the hourglass on his disastrous reign, writes <b>Guy Rundle</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rundle: Get set for the great auto bailout filibuster</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/11/rundle-get-set-for-the-great-auto-bailout-filibuster/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/11/rundle-get-set-for-the-great-auto-bailout-filibuster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Bush Jr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[us 08]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US economy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The misery of a GM collapse before Xmas is pretty awful to contemplate, but you can't help but think it would be damn spectacular, like a reactor meltdown, writes <b>Guy Rundle</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/11/rundle-get-set-for-the-great-auto-bailout-filibuster/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Howard Years: kickass guy action</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/02/the-howard-years-kickass-guy-action/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/02/the-howard-years-kickass-guy-action/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ABC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Bush Jr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Blair]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This old guy, he’s seriously old, like he’s now nothing but eyebrows, but he’s tough and he’s in his mansion where he hangs out and he’s thinking back to some adventure, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Kruddiversary: how Latham could have been our Obama</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/26/kruddiversary-how-latham-could-have-been-our-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/26/kruddiversary-how-latham-could-have-been-our-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Bush Jr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whereas Obama's race and personal history put him outside the usual political establishment, Rudd is the bureaucrat from central casting, steeped in the traditions of Australia's governing class, writes <b>Charles Richardson</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mungo: Get off the pot Chris Mitchell</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/17/mungo-get-off-the-pot-chris-mitchell/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/17/mungo-get-off-the-pot-chris-mitchell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[G20]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Bush Jr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leaks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the situation is even half as serious as Mitchell claims, then he owes it to the Australian public to tell them the truth. Unfortunately this may get in the way of a good beat up, but that’s journalism, writes <b>Mungo MacCallum</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>G20 gaffe: Australian public say &#8220;whatever&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/17/g20-gaffe-australian-public-say-whatever/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/17/g20-gaffe-australian-public-say-whatever/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[G20]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Bush Jr]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[People, it seems, don’t want to know that their Prime Minister has an ego so large it unbalances his judgement. Or perhaps they know and don’t care, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Oz is ducking G20 phone call story</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/14/the-oz-is-ducking-g20-phone-call-story/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/14/the-oz-is-ducking-g20-phone-call-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media-Arts-and-Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[G20]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Bush Jr]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Today "Cut &#038; Paste" has an airswing at Crikey over the G20 phone call -- or as 4BC’s Michael Smith tartly terms it, "Speakerphonegate". ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bob Brown, G20, the Oz and Australia&#8217;s right to know</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/13/bob-brown-g20-the-oz-and-australias-right-to-know/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/13/bob-brown-g20-the-oz-and-australias-right-to-know/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Bush Jr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leaks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is Brown protecting the PM? Why is the national newspaper not applying to itself what it rightly lectures politicians about -- the right of the public to know? asks <b>David Flint</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/13/bob-brown-g20-the-oz-and-australias-right-to-know/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>Republicans a good chance in 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/11/republicans-a-good-chance-in-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/11/republicans-a-good-chance-in-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given the prevailing winds at Obama's back during this campaign that are not going to be there in four years time, Obama can't afford to rely on merely goodwill to get re-elected in four years time. <b>Morgan Poll Manager Julian McCrann</b> provides the numbers.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mungo: Obama&#8217;s presidency faces a world of trouble</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/10/mungo-obamas-presidency-faces-a-world-of-trouble/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/10/mungo-obamas-presidency-faces-a-world-of-trouble/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ABC Learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[childcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Bush Jr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[President Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our days as Washington’s pet poodle are well and truly over; another pooch entirely is to be installed in the White House, writes <b>Mungo MacCallum</b>.]]></description>
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