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<title><![CDATA[James Oliphant - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/17092.xml</link><description><![CDATA[James Oliphant]]></description><category domain="17092">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Sanders-Warren Flap Makes a Debate Winner Out of Biden]]></title>
							<link>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-debate-analysis/in-democratic-debate-sanders-warren-flap-makes-a-winner-out-of-biden-idUSKBN1ZE0HP</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Oliphant</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Six Democratic U.S. presidential candidates sparred over war and trade, gender and health care, in a pressure-packed debate in Des Moines, Iowa, on Tuesday, with the first nominating contest in the state less than three weeks away.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rubio Emerges as Champion of Battered Establishment]]></title>
							<link>https://ca.news.yahoo.com/marco-rubio-emerges-champion-battered-republican-establishment-064924990.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Oliphant</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Texas Senator Ted Cruz was victorious in the first Republican nomination contest of the 2016 White House race, but there was another big winner in Iowa on Monday night: Florida Senator Marco Rubio and the Republican establishment.For months, Cruz and Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s brand of angry,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump, Cruz: Tamp Down Expectations for Uncertain Iowa Vote]]></title>
							<link>http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-idUSKCN0V80VE</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Oliphant</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Iran Deal Holds Promise &amp; Peril for Clinton]]></title>
							<link>http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/14/us-iran-nuclear-clinton-idUSKCN0PO1SC20150714</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Oliphant</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For the United States, the nuclear deal struck with Iran holds both promise and peril. The same can be said for Hillary Clinton, the U.S. Democratic frontrunner in the 2016 presidential race.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Netanyahu Delivered Just What Obama Feared]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/white-house/netanyahu-delivers-just-what-obama-feared-20150303</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Oliphant</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Congressional Republicans haven't had many victories in their lasting conflict with President Obama, but Tuesday brought one. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's somber, provocative speech to Congress checked all the boxes.It called into question the efficacy of any deal the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Paralyzed by Ukraine, Dumbfounded by Russia]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/defense/paralyzed-by-ukraine-dumbfounded-by-russia-20150223</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Oliphant</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The sluggish disintegration of a weak peace deal in Ukraine has come as nothing less than a blessing for President Obama. It has helped mask his administration's inability to determine the best response to the crisis, and to Russia.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Not to Run for President]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/how-not-to-run-for-president-20150206</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Oliphant</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mark Corallo still talks like a believer. To him'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'as preposterous as it may sound now, a clear-eyed eight years removed'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'Fred Thompson was "John Wayne, Johnny Cash, and Ronald Reagan" all rolled into one sellable, electable package. "Gracious, humble, bigger than life," recalls...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[New Page. Same President Obama.]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/white-house/new-page-same-obama-20150120</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Oliphant</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In his State of the Union address Tuesday, President Obama said he wants to "turn the page." He should worry whether a large swath of the public heard "tax and spend" instead. The biggest challenge Obama faces in the aftermath of the hour-long speech lies not in enacting the bulk of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Assault on American Values]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/white-house/the-paris-attack-is-an-assault-on-american-values-20150107</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Oliphant</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When President Obama committed U.S. forces to combat the Islamic State, he said it was necessary to defend the nation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s core beliefs. That'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s why an assault on a French newspaper hits so close to home.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[2015: Obama's Year of Reaction]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/white-house/2015-obama-s-year-of-reaction-20150104</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Oliphant</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama began last year vowing to use his pen to get things done. He opens this one pledging to wield it to stop legislation in its tracks.The difference is the new Republican Congress. It throws the president, for his final two years in office, into the role of a goalie trying...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Obama Had a Really Terrible Year]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/white-house/barack-obama-had-a-really-terrible-year-20141230</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Oliphant</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You can make a compelling case that 2014 was the worst year for President Obama since, well, the year before. And, in fact, the president spent much of this year trying to recover from some body blows he took in the final months of 2013, when, in short order, Congress rebuffed him on...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Forging His Own Reality]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/white-house/obama-s-forging-his-own-reality-20141120</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Oliphant</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By going it alone on immigration reform, President Obama signaled Thursday that, in his final two years in office, he's going to be dealing strictly in reality'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'his version of it anyway.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Not the long-dead dream of hope and change, that rhetoric alone can move mountains. Not the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Does Clinton Overcome Obama?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/white-house/how-does-clinton-overcome-obama-20141030</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Oliphant</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' If Hillary Clinton forges ahead and runs for president, she'll be facing an electorate more disillusioned and more cynical than the one she faced before'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and one perhaps less likely to respond to her message.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Is Obama Always Surprised?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/white-house/the-surprised-president-20141020</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Oliphant</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama is shocked, we are told. He's "visibly angry" over the government's response to the domestic Ebola threat.A report in The New York Times over the weekend portrayed the president as a frustrated chief executive, directing federal officials to be more "hands on" and to be...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Year of Action Becomes Year of Fear]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/white-house/obama-s-year-of-action-becomes-a-year-of-fear-20140917</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Oliphant</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama's "Year of Action" has turned into a Year of Fear. The country seems mired in dread. And that could have mortal consequences for midterm Democrats.New polls out this week betray a rattled public, one that is jittery about war, security, and the economy'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and one that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Explaining Obama's Terrible Political Summer]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/the-neverending-campaign-20140905</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Oliphant</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In late July, in the middle of a torturous summer when the country was roiled by one crisis after another, White House reporters gathered for a breakfast chat with Dan Pfeiffer, senior adviser to President Obama. As we downed our croissants and coffee, Pfeiffer rattled off some...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[White House Is Spoiling for a Fight on Immigration]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/white-house/the-white-house-is-spoiling-for-a-fight-on-immigration-20140829</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Oliphant</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The White House appears to be moving full-speed ahead on an executive order that would provide widespread protection to illegal immigrants from deportation, Republicans'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and maybe some Democrats'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'be damned.Those close to the process expect an order in the first few weeks of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Texas Two-Step]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/white-house/obama-s-texas-two-step-20140709</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Oliphant</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama was 500 miles from the Mexican border when he spoke about the child migrant crisis Wednesday evening, but he seemed to be even farther away than that.Standing before an oddly non-descript background in Dallas (really, the president could have been anywhere), Obama kept...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Welcome to White House's Nightmare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/white-house/welcome-to-the-white-house-s-nightmare-20140619</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Oliphant</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Of all the things to rise up and bedevil President Obama again, Iraq seemed to be low on the list. But now the White House must live with the reality that, almost three years after the war was declared over, American blood could be spilled anew in a conflict that could readily escalate.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Does a Paralyzed President Move the Needle?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/how-does-a-paralyzed-president-move-the-needle-20140612</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Oliphant</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The rocky week came right on the heels of a Veterans Administration scandal caught the White House flat-footed and amid a crisis in Ukraine that shows no sign of abating despite the administration's best diplomatic efforts. To make matters worse, the steady economic progress that many...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Scott Brown Win Over N.H.?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/can-scott-brown-win-over-new-hampshire-20140605</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Oliphant</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Scott Brown's evening is not going well. "We don't know if we can trust you," a man in the audience says. "You didn't answer my question!" yells another. "You talk about unity," says a third, "but you're the one who came up here and divided the party."]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mad at Obama? Blame Republicans]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/white-house/mad-at-obama-blame-republicans-20140603</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Oliphant</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The carping is familiar. President Obama has "overreached" and abused his authority by releasing terrorist prisoners without notifying Congress and in promulgating new environmental rules. But, as usual, Republicans have few remedies beyond press releases and the promises of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Progressive Bloggers Are Doing White House's Job]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/progressive-bloggers-are-doing-the-white-house-s-job-20140509</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Oliphant</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Jay Carney was grilled at length by Jonathan Karl of ABC News over an email outlining administration talking points in the wake of the 2012 Benghazi attack, it was not, by the reckoning of many observers, the White House press secretary's finest hour. Carney was alternately...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When Does It Make Sense to Make Voters Mad?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/daily/when-does-it-make-sense-to-make-voters-mad-20140415</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Oliphant</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For decades, Republicans have been the undisputed masters of what might be called the politics of grievance, the sowing of disharmony among the electorate in order to drive turnout. Think of Nixon's Silent Majority. Or the Reagan Democrat. Or, more recently, the ceaseless fear-mongering...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Begins to Say Good-Bye]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/obama-begins-to-say-good-bye-20140411</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Oliphant</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Because you can find anything on the Web, you can easily search and pull up a running clock that tells you just how long, to the second, Barack Obama has been president. It moves in real time. It only feels like it's speeding up.Constrained by crises over which he has little power to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Obama a 'Reverse Reagan'?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/is-obama-a-reverse-reagan-20140403</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Oliphant</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president couldn't resist spiking the football over the Affordable Care Act. "Many of the tall tales that have been told about this law have been debunked. There are still no death panels," he crowed in the Rose Garden this week. "Armageddon has not arrived." After all the negative...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Conservatives Hijacked Arizona]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/how-the-right-hijacked-arizona-20140331</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Oliphant</author>
							<description><![CDATA[PHOENIX'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'The Prince of Darkness recommends the French toast.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' We're sitting in a Cracker Barrel restaurant filled'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'no, jammed'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'with customers, many of them tourists in town to take in the March sun, play golf, or see an exhibition baseball game. It isn't long before the meal...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obamacare Will Continue to Haunt Dems]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/obamacare-will-be-a-defining-issue-in-the-next-presidential-election-20140213</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Oliphant</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The embattled HealthCare.gov site features a time line for implementation of the Affordable Care Act. It ends in 2015.They wish.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's NSA Proposals Fall Short of Real Change]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/white-house/obama-s-nsa-proposals-fall-far-short-of-real-change-20140117</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Oliphant</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The White House promised Friday that it was ending the NSA's most controversial surveillance program "as it currently exists." But make no mistake, it's still going to exist.In fact, what President Obama has announced will have little operational effect on the National Security Agency's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Love It or Hate It, Obamacare Redistributes Wealth]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationaljournal.com/health-care/love-it-or-hate-it-obamacare-redistributes-americans-wealth-20131121</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Oliphant</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama has said a lot of things about health care reform, not just that if you liked your health insurance plan, you could keep it. In a prime-time news conference in July 2009, his rationales for a new law stacked up like planes on an airport runway during a holiday weekend: It...]]></description>
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