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							<title><![CDATA[Give Biden Credit for an Impressive, Reassuring Launch]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Meyer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We are long out of the habit of giving presidents trust or high marks, but Biden deserves both for restoring 'regular order' amid three huge crises.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Needs a Democracy Czar to Repair Our Civic Life]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Meyer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The attack on the Capitol exposed our broken social and political systems. It will be tough to repair them, but it would be disgraceful not to try.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ungrateful Nation Should Thank President Obama]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Meyer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve never written a column like this. Readers rarely believe it, but I am not on any political team. Generosity toward the high and mighty isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t among my few virtues. But this needs to be said: Americans are lucky to have Barack Obama as president and we should wake up and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[If Clinton Doesn't Run, Here's Who'll Get the Nod]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newsnet5.com/decodedc/you-read-it-here-first-if-hillary-doesnt-run-heres-who-will-get-the-nod</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Meyer</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Campaign Finance Reform Is Dead]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Meyer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, D.C. - One of my favorite lines about politics came from the Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan in 1984. He had crossed the Capitol and was talking to the House Ways and Means committee about closing tax loopholes. Going against the tax lobbyists, Moynihan quipped, was like...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Should U.S. Elections Be More Like the Papal Conclave?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21805378</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Meyer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republicans are gathered near Washington for the 40th annual running of the bulls known as the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). This year, CPAC marks the unofficial beginning of the 2016 presidential campaign.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Sadly.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' American campaigns have evolved, or devolved, into...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Vote for the Status Quo]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Meyer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After the longest and most expensive election campaign any democracy has ever seen, President Barack Obama was re-elected, albeit by a narrower margin than he received four years ago.Despite America's weak economy, high unemployment and partisan rancour, voters returned incumbents to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Readers Are Almost Always Right]]></title>
							<link>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104087929</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Meyer</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Puritan View Of The Crash]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Meyer</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Investigating Bush's 'War On Terror']]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Meyer</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Madoff and Blagojevich: Lessons from Creeps]]></title>
							<link>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98410321</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Meyer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Share this page using one of the following services:What is this?CommentaryNPR.org, December 18, 2008 '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('·').';'  One assumes that the Almighty brought forth Rod Blagojevich and Bernard Madoff unto the news headlines in one week for a good and noble reason.  It is up to us mortals to divine that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Understanding of Ideas And Politics]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[5 Myths About Value Voters]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/23/AR2008102301849.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Meyer</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Vote For Undivided Government]]></title>
							<link>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96006738</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Meyer</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[RIP The Era of Small Government]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Meyer</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Vanishing Character Of McCain And Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95522455</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Meyer</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Racial Prejudice Be Used to Bring Down Obama?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94733622</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Meyer</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sept. 11 And the Non-Crisis of Values]]></title>
							<link>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94481807</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Meyer</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Eyes on the Pride]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/08/eyes_on_the_pride.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Meyer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Democratic Party, as assembled and packaged at its national convention, does not seem especially proud that it is about to become the first major American political party to nominate an African-American to be president.Pragmatism, tactics and spin aside, this is disappointing and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What 'Culture War'?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-meyer27-2008aug27,0,6947949.story</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Meyer</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[More News, But Less 'News']]></title>
							<link>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93080581</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Meyer</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gloomy About Our Public Institutions]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Meyer</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fannie's Lesson: The Real Scandals Are Legal]]></title>
							<link>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92611529</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Meyer</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Consuming the 2008 Campaign, Enjoy It]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dick Meyer</author>
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