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				<title>Clinton mocks Obama on foreign policy</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/clinton_mocks_obama_on_foreign_p/</link>
				<description>Hillary Rodham Clinton ridiculed Democratic presidential rival Barack Obama for his contention that living in a foreign country as a child helped give him a better understanding of the foreign policy challenges facing the United States.

&quot;Voters will ha</description>
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				<pubDate>2007-11-21 08:21:38</pubDate>
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					<name>MSNBC</name>
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								<credibility>95</credibility>
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					<rating>Interesting [6]</rating>
													<credibility>100</credibility>
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				<title>Brown replaces Blair as British PM</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/brown_replaces_blair_as_british_/</link>
				<description>In his first speech as prime minister outside number 10 Downing Street, Brown said: &quot;This will be a new government with new priorities and I have been privileged to have been granted the great opportunity to serve my country.

&quot;As I have travelled roun</description>
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				<pubDate>2007-06-27 14:12:12</pubDate>
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					<name>Al Jazeera</name>
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								<credibility>90</credibility>
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					<rating>Interesting [14]</rating>
													<credibility>100</credibility>
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				<title>Bush: Americans Sacrifice ‘Peace Of Mind When They See The Terrible Image’ Of War On TV</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/bush_americans_sacrifice_peace_o/</link>
				<description>Last night on the PBS Newshour, Jim Lehrer asked President Bush why he hasn’t called on Americans — besides those serving in the volunteer military — to sacrifice something to help our country in this time of struggle. Bush claimed Americans are sac</description>
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				<pubDate>2007-01-18 09:32:05</pubDate>
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					<name>Think Progress</name>
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								<credibility>91</credibility>
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					<rating>Important [22]</rating>
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				<title>5 Myths About Turning Out The Vote</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/5_myths_about_turning_out_the_vo/</link>
				<description>If you're an upstanding U.S. citizen, you'll stand up and be counted this Election Day, right? Well, maybe not. Just because Americans can vote doesn't mean they do. But who shows up is what decides the tight races, which makes turnout one of the most</description>
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				<pubDate>2006-10-29 00:05:20</pubDate>
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					<name>Washington Post</name>
					<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/27/AR2006102701474.html</link>
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					<rating>Under Rated [2]</rating>
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				<title>Lawmakers approve subpoenas over food testing</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/lawmakers_approve_subpoenas_over/</link>
				<description>Lawmakers voted to subpoena nine companies responsible for analyzing the most dangerous food entering the country as part of an investigation that gained more urgency with an outbreak of salmonella from tomatoes.

For months, a House Energy and Commerce</description>
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				<pubDate>2008-06-13 08:15:08</pubDate>
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					<name>SF Gate</name>
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					<rating>Under Rated [1]</rating>
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				<title>Argentina's first lady wins poll</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/argentinas_first_lady_wins_poll/</link>
				<description>Argentina's current first lady, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, has secured victory in the country's presidential election.

With most of the ballots counted, Mrs Kirchner had an unassailable lead with 44.6% of the votes.

Her nearest rival, former la</description>
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				<pubDate>2007-10-29 08:20:31</pubDate>
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					<name>BBC News</name>
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								<credibility>93</credibility>
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					<rating>Under Rated [1]</rating>
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				<title>Bush seeks progress on Afghan security</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/bush_seeks_progress_on_afghan_se/</link>
				<description>President Bush wants fresh assurances that Afghan President Hamid Karzai is dealing with his country's soaring drug trade and pervasive security struggles.

Bush on Wednesday was to meet with Karzai, a reliable ally, for the first time since hosting him</description>
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				<pubDate>2007-09-26 08:19:09</pubDate>
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					<name>USA Today</name>
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								<credibility>91</credibility>
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					<rating>Under Rated [1]</rating>
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				<title>Ahmadinejad seeks to soothe critics</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/ahmadinejad_seeks_to_soothe_crit/</link>
				<description>In his outward persona at least, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came to this country to lessen hostility toward himself and to defend Iran, not to rabble-rouse and provoke hatred. Whether he succeeded remains an open question.

In an interview wi</description>
				<type>news</type>
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				<pubDate>2007-09-25 03:35:38</pubDate>
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					<name>Seattle Pi</name>
					<link>http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_Ahmadinejad_Interview.html?source=rss</link>
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								<credibility>94</credibility>
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					<rating>Under Rated [1]</rating>
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				<title>Obama Says He Can Unite U.S. 'More Effectively' Than Clinton</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/obama_says_he_can_unite_us_more_/</link>
				<description>Drawing a sharp contrast with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, his main rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. Barack Obama said in an interview that he has the capacity she may lack to unify the country and move it out of what he called &quot;ideo</description>
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				<pubDate>2007-08-15 08:17:18</pubDate>
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					<name>Washington Post</name>
					<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/14/AR2007081401939.html</link>
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					<rating>Interesting [4]</rating>
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				<title>Giuliani vows to stop flow of illegal immigrants</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/giuliani_vows_to_stop_flow_of_il/</link>
				<description>Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani vowed Tuesday to stop the flow of illegal immigrants into the United States by closely tracking visitors to the country and beefing up border security. &quot;We can end illegal immigration. I promise you, we can en</description>
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				<pubDate>2007-08-15 00:41:37</pubDate>
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					<name>CNN</name>
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					<rating>Interesting [3]</rating>
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				<title>Tougher Stance on Pakistan Took Months</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/tougher_stance_on_pakistan_took_/</link>
				<description>Last September, when Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf visited the White House to tout a controversial plan for driving al-Qaeda from his country, President Bush responded at a joint news conference with a trademark profession of faith. When Musharraf</description>
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				<pubDate>2007-08-05 09:13:02</pubDate>
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					<name>Washington Post</name>
					<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/04/AR2007080401560.html</link>
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				<title>U.S. Officials Have Absolutely No Clue about Iraq's Oil Law</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/us_officials_have_absolutely_no_/</link>
				<description>In Washington, lawmakers and military officials say that Iraq's new oil law is vital for the country's future. But, as one reporter learned, most have no idea what they're talking about.

A military leader fresh from Iraq is the latest U.S. government o</description>
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				<pubDate>2007-06-24 12:02:19</pubDate>
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					<name>Alter Net</name>
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					<rating>Interesting [5]</rating>
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				<title>Democratic Dinosaurs in D.C. Are Holding Us Back</title>
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				<description>While the rest of the country is dealing with the here and now -- exemplified by Bush's puny approval ratings and a new poll showing rural voters turning against the GOP's handling of Iraq -- the Beltway's Democratic dinosaurs are acting like it's 2002.</description>
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				<pubDate>2007-06-13 15:13:08</pubDate>
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					<rating>Under Rated [1]</rating>
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				<title>Bill Richardson's L.A. launch</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/bill_richardsons_la_launch/</link>
				<description>MOST PEOPLE know intuitively that someone named Hillary is a woman. They may guess that someone whose name is Obama could be of African American descent. But they'd likely also assume that someone named William Blaine Richardson belongs to a country club</description>
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				<pubDate>2007-05-22 11:33:08</pubDate>
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					<name>Los Angeles Times</name>
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					<rating>Under Rated [1]</rating>
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				<title>Blair announces retirement</title>
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				<description>Tony Blair today announced he was stepping down after 10 years as prime minister and 13 as Labour leader.

The prime minister told a crowd of supporters at Trimdon Labour club he would stand down as PM on June 27. He will tender his resignation to the Q</description>
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				<pubDate>2007-05-10 09:18:31</pubDate>
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					<name>Guardian Unlimited</name>
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				<title>British PM sets departure date</title>
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				<description>I've been prime minister of this country for just over 10 years,&quot; Blair said in his televised speech.

&quot;In this job, in the world of today, I think that's long enough for me but more especially for the country. Sometimes the only way you conquer the pul</description>
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				<pubDate>2007-05-10 09:18:29</pubDate>
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				<title>On Poverty, Edwards Faces Old Hurdles</title>
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				<description>His rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination were busy April 26 preparing for their first televised debate, but John Edwards was 45 miles south, strolling along a dirt road in this struggling town in South Carolina's Low Country to chat with what</description>
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				<pubDate>2007-05-07 08:21:35</pubDate>
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					<name>Washington Post</name>
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				<title>Bush, Congress honor Tuskegee Airmen</title>
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				<description>President Bush saluted the Tuskegee airmen on Thursday, six decades after they completed their World War II mission and returned home to a country that discriminated against them because they were black.

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				<pubDate>2007-03-29 16:42:12</pubDate>
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