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<title><![CDATA[Andrew Malcolm - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/16069.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Andrew Malcolm]]></description><category domain="16069">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Will Biden Face Any Tough Questions This Campaign?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.mcclatchydc.com/opinion/article245588780.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Malcolm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Joe Biden would be 78 years old by Inauguration Day in January, seven years beyond the average lifespan of a male born in 1942. He had two brain aneurysms in the 1980s. Last month, a doctor reported him fully fit. Biden noted he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s taken a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'deep test'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' for COVID-19, whatever...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[20 Weeks Is a Lifetime in Presidential Politics]]></title>
							<link>https://www.mcclatchydc.com/opinion/article243562012.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Malcolm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Opinion: The next dictionary edition should have a MAGA hat by the definition of loyal.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Virus Has Scrambled 2020 - That's Bad News for Dems]]></title>
							<link>https://www.mcclatchydc.com/opinion/article241818856.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Malcolm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Founding Fathers were rightly suspicious of political parties as venal bands of very human politicians whose primary instincts were more self-serving than public-serving. We got them anyway.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Overlook Looming Senate Battle in 2020]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thestate.com/opinion/article230069429.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Malcolm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Once considered the greatest deliberative body, the Senate's operations have degenerated into partisan packs of maneuvering pols following arcane rules until one side decides to change them for its own benefit.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Dangerous, Vital Bid to Reshape China Policy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/article220068245.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Malcolm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Some commentators tried to portray Trump's conversation with Taiwan's Tsai Ing-wen as a na'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¯').';'ve gesture that humiliated Beijing. Soon after, however, at his Florida resort, Trump was wooing China's Xi Jinping.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Both Parties More Dysfunctional Than the White House]]></title>
							<link>http://www.mcclatchydc.com/opinion/article205919644.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Malcolm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president is basically leading his own Party of Trump with the support of millions of disaffected Americans sick of the ineffectiveness and unresponsiveness of both two-faced parties.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Not Known for Nuance, Trump Handling Iran Just Right]]></title>
							<link>http://www.mcclatchydc.com/opinion/article193620629.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Malcolm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Iran and how Donald Trump addresses the deadly anti-regime demonstrations now convulsing that historic land that clearly is the linchpin of any future regional stability, or the opposite.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Two GOPs Confront Each Other -- and Tax Reform]]></title>
							<link>http://www.mcclatchydc.com/opinion/andrew-malcolm/article176589361.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Malcolm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's hard to predict politics these days, as the triumph of Alabama's Roy Moore last week demonstrated.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Sad Spectacle of Hillary's Slow-Motion Breakdown]]></title>
							<link>http://www.mcclatchydc.com/opinion/article154579389.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Malcolm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton seems to have launched yet another political campaign in 2017, one to convince Americans that they absolutely did the right thing by not electing her president in 2016.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Trump's Attack on Syria Did -- and Did Not -- Do]]></title>
							<link>http://www.mcclatchydc.com/opinion/article143688229.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Malcolm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s sudden missile strike against a Syrian airfield in retaliation for a gas attack on civilians will not change one thing about that sad land'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s bloody civil war.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Does What Obama Didn't: Reach Out &amp; Listen]]></title>
							<link>http://www.mcclatchydc.com/opinion/article138103703.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Malcolm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' are you sitting down? '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' Trump canceled a couple of media availabilities. He turned down ESPN'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s invitation to provide his own NCAA tournament brackets, a free PR ride on basketball fever annually seized by President Barack Obama. When reporters yell questions at...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Disregard All the Farewells: Obama Isn't Really Leaving]]></title>
							<link>http://www.mcclatchydc.com/opinion/article126909469.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Malcolm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Obamas will the traditional final post-inaugural Air Force flight '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?? but only for a vacation. For the first time in almost a century, the immediate ex-president will continue residing in Washington, D.C., ostensibly while a daughter finishes the second half of high school.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Immense Gratitude Republicans Owe Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://news.investors.com/politics-andrew-malcolm/110515-779279-election-results-show-how-obama-hurts-democrats.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Malcolm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of these days Republicans will begin to realize what a political miracle-worker Barack Obama has been for the Party of Lincoln these past 82 months.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Yes, yes, Obama's economic policies and regulations have created the worst economic recovery and most sluggish job market in six...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Benghazi Report: How D.C. Whitewashes Scandals]]></title>
							<link>http://news.investors.com/politics-andrew-malcolm/121912-637604-state-dept-benghazi-report.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Malcolm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You'll be able to hear and read today about the State Department report on the Benghazi consulate sacking and killings. But no matter how much you listen or read, you'll only be getting part of the story. Here's why:The report from the Accountability Review Board, headed by Thomas...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Americans' Expectations for Obama 2.0 Plunge]]></title>
							<link>http://news.investors.com/politics-andrew-malcolm/113012-635215-cnn-poll-finds-sharp-drops-in-hopes-for-progress.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Malcolm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Rather than bother with the messy business of face-to-face negotiations with Republicans over the looming fiscal cliff, Barack Obama has chosen to take Air Force One up to the Philadelphia area today to talk at another adoring crowd.Because no one's had enough campaigning yet?Obama...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Handy Guide: Who's Sleeping With Who?]]></title>
							<link>http://news.investors.com/politics-andrew-malcolm/111312-633211-david-petraeus-jill-kelley-paula-broadwell-fbi-probe.htm?ven=rss&amp;p=full</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Malcolm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[All of these post-election Obama administration scandals really seem to be sliding out of control now that the election is complete.We'll try to help you out here with a sexual scorecard. It's so confusing who was embedding whom when. And now new allegations this morning involving yet...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[As Economy Sinks, Obama Talks NFL]]></title>
							<link>http://news.investors.com/politics-andrew-malcolm/092712-627246-nfl-refs-obama-pleased-to-distract-from-more-bad-economic-numbers.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Malcolm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You should know that President Barack Obama, who's presided over the worst national non-recovery economic recovery since before John McCain was even born, is positively delighted, even thrilled, over the contract settlement between the National Football League and its referees.Speaking...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Race Is Tied Again as Obama's Bounce Dies]]></title>
							<link>http://news.investors.com/politics-andrew-malcolm/091912-626231-gallup-poll-finds-presidential-race-a-close-tie-once-again.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Malcolm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Forget the Republican doom and gloom drumbeat peddled elsewhere in the media this week.A new Gallup Poll out this morning finds President Obama's convention bounce fading and the 2012 presidential race reverting to its previous tight margin. What a bummer for the preferred media...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Tired and Stale Speakers at the DNC]]></title>
							<link>http://news.investors.com/politics-andrew-malcolm/090412-622570-bill-clinton-julian-castro-joe-biden.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Malcolm</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are Obama Voters as Solid As They Profess?]]></title>
							<link>http://news.investors.com/article/619979/201207270832/romney-obama-poll-deadlock-could-be-false-like-wisconsin.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Malcolm</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who Is This Guy Pretending to Be President?]]></title>
							<link>http://news.investors.com/article/607479/201204130818/obama-pretends-to-be-president-while-campaigning.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Malcolm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Has anyone seen Barack Obama recently?You know, the optimistic hopeful fellow with the charming smile'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' who promised so many positive things four and five years ago, how he was going to change the harsh, partisan tone of our nation's capital and bring the country together as its first...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Americans Aren't Learning to Like ObamaCare]]></title>
							<link>http://news.investors.com/article/607337/201204110938/obama-signature-healthcare-legislation-widely-disliked-by-americans.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Malcolm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Obamacare passed through Congress by the hair on its chinny-chin-chin, the optimistic Pelosi prognosis was: Be patient and call back in two years. The people will love it the more they learn about it.Well, it's been two years. They've learned more about it, including its dishonest...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Afghanistan Turns Into a Mess of Bloody Apologies]]></title>
							<link>http://news.investors.com/article/603976/201203121038/obama-afghan-shooting-apology.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Malcolm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama and Gen. David Axelrod may have thought they had the Afghan war exit strategy tied up in a neat package with U.S. troop withdrawals beginning in time for this fall's American presidential campaign.But a combination of unforeseen recent events'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' have seriously complicated...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Struggles to Maintain Political Relevance]]></title>
							<link>http://news.investors.com/Article/593503/201112020822/joe-biden-2012.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Malcolm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To Joe Biden, this is a big &amp;+#$%@ deal.He has to stay relevant in hopes of staying on the 2012 ticket with the Real Good Talker. Biden was crucial back in 2008. He appeared to lend the Chicago kid foreign policy creds from his Senate Foreign Relations Committee years.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The &quot;Dump Obama&quot; Movement Has Begun]]></title>
							<link>http://news.investors.com/Article/592314/201111210818/dump-obama-hillary-clinton.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Malcolm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Faced with peanut-sized Jimmy Carter poll numbers, disturbing big-donor reluctance, unacceptable unemployment and depressing economic forecasts, President Obama heads back on the road tomorrow to do what he always does when in trouble:Call again for someone to do something about new jobs.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Many Obama Gaffes Can the Media Ignore?]]></title>
							<link>http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/09/obama-gaffe-jobs-act-speech-brent-spence-bridge-ohio.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Malcolm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[That's what the president of the United States flat-out said Thursday during what was supposed to be a photo op to sell his jobs plan next to an allegedly deteriorating highway bridge.A railroad between continents? A railroad from, say, New York City all the way across the Atlantic to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Touts Plan at Bridge That Won't Qualify]]></title>
							<link>http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/09/obama-jobs-plan-brent-spence-bridge-cincinnati.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Malcolm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You know all those rusting bridges that President Obama wants to spend billions more dollars repairing to allegedly stimulate the economy?He's headed out to one today which he's described as a "bridge that needs repair between Ohio and Kentucky that's on one of the busiest trucking...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Biden Still Denying Terrorist Remarks?]]></title>
							<link>http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/08/joe-biden-china-terrorists-politico.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Malcolm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[So, did Vice President Joe Biden really liken Republican House "tea party" members to terrorists during the debt deal roughhousing, just as President Obama was publicly professing a desire for political civility?In a way, it doesn't matter anymore, because the belief that he did has...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[On Day 938, Obama Says He'll Present a Jobs Plan]]></title>
							<link>http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/08/obama-jobs-package-debt-deal.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Malcolm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[OK, let's see if we can sort out this White House jobs package hocus-pocus because President Obama is counting on us not to. And no one wants to fail to disappoint him:Last winter in his State of the Union address, oblivious to the gathering storm over the nation's national debt, the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Look Now, Bachmann is Leading in Iowa]]></title>
							<link>http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/07/michele-bachmann-iowa-poll-lead.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Malcolm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[While much of the nation's political community focuses on the deficit stalemate in Washington and President Obama's scheduled news conference to control the news cycle this morning, a new poll reveals Rep. Michele Bachmann has surged to the lead among likely Republican caucus-goers in...]]></description>
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