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<title><![CDATA[Richard Benedetto - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/17586.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Richard Benedetto]]></description><category domain="17586">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Jill Biden, Abuser In Chief]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/9/jill-biden-abuser-in-chief/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Benedetto</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is one key reason why President'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' is stubbornly insisting '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' despite calls from some fellow Democrats to step aside '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' that he will not drop out of his race for reelection:'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Jill Biden.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[George H. W. Bush: A Remembrance]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/06/13/george_h_w_bush_a_remembrance_151103.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Benedetto</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Former President George H.W. Bush, whose 100th birthday was observed on June 12, was the nicest politician I ever met.
I do not say that lightly. I met hundreds of politicians at the local, state, and national levels over a 45-year newspaper reporting career. Bush stood out from all of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Chuck Schumer&rsquo;s Tired Vanity Act Needs a Rest]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/03/20/chuck_schumers_tired_vanity_act_needs_a_rest_150671.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Benedetto</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The time has come for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to pack his bags and shuffle back home to Brooklyn.
The New York Democrat has been around politics way too long. Aside from being a politician, he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s never held a real job since graduating from Harvard Law School nearly a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Job Approval a Sign He Should Reconsider Running for 2nd Term]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/09/23/a_short_history_of_presidential_approval_ratings_149800.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Benedetto</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When sitting presidents begin thinking about reelection, the one factor they should seriously consider is their current job approval rating. It is a remarkably accurate predictor of whether that president will be successful in winning another term.
History shows us that incumbent...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Derangement at The Post]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/08/08/trump_derangement_at_the_post_149586.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Benedetto</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post has a Donald Trump obsession. Some might call it a vendetta.
Although the flamboyant former president has been out of the White House for more than two and a half years, he gets far more front-page coverage in the Post than the current president, Joe Biden.
And nearly...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Face Historical Headwinds in Tuesday&rsquo;s Midterm Elections]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/11/03/democrats_face_historical_headwinds_in_tuesdays_midterm_elections_148415.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Benedetto</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Regardless of all that wispy smoke Democrats and their allies in the news media are blowing, key polls suggest Republicans are still likely to win back control of the House of Representatives in Tuesday'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s midterm elections and have a better than even chance to take over the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Praise of Old-Fashioned Dads]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/06/18/in_praise_of_old-fashioned_dads_147759.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Benedetto</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The other day, The Washington Post, in an attempted paean to fatherhood, went out and asked fathers what it means to be a man. The answers were hardly enlightening. They were mostly clich'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('©').';'-filled attempts to be thoughtful, wise, and correctly sensitive.
The underlying lesson we were...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Queen Elizabeth's Reign Spans 14 US Presidents]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/06/07/queen_elizabeths_reign_spans_14_us_presidents_147700.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Benedetto</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Queen Elizabeth II is celebrating her Platinum Jubilee marking 70 years as Britain'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s royal monarch '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' the longest reign of any king or queen of that island nation.
Most people who were alive when she ascended to the throne in 1952 are now dead. I was alive back then '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's 2024 Hopes Hinge on Sublimating Them in 2022]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/10/06/trumps_2024_hopes_hinge_on_sublimating_them_in_2022_146519.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Benedetto</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 
Former President Donald Trump and his sizable band of loyal supporters confidently assume that the 2024 Republican presidential nomination is in the bag.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  To them, and to Trump himself, he is merely a president in exile not-so-patiently waiting to be restored to his proper...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Give &rsquo;Em Hell, Donald]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/10/20/give_em_hell_donald_144483.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Benedetto</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He probably won'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t admit it, and may not know it, but President Trump has ripped a page from the Harry Truman Playbook
Like Truman, who trailed badly in the polls in 1948, Trump is out on the campaign trail nearly every day whistle-stopping at airports in battleground states and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Brent Scowcroft I Knew]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/08/10/the_brent_scowcroft_i_knew_143923.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Benedetto</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In these days of rampant public cynicism and a fashionable aversion to saying something nice about someone, especially politicians, there'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s still no other way to say it:
Brent Scowcroft was a very nice guy.
Scowcroft, a retired Air Force general and trusted national security adviser...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Epidemic of Media Partisanship]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/03/30/an_epidemic_of_media_partisanship_142804.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Benedetto</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WARNING: Reading The Washington Post might be hazardous to your (mental) health.
Leafing through the first section of Sunday'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s print edition of the Post, nearly every headline seemed designed to scare the bejesus out of readers already nervously confined to their homes because of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Achieve Total Buzz Kill in New Hampshire]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/02/10/democrats_achieve_total_buzz_kill_in_new_hampshire.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Benedetto</author>
							<description><![CDATA[MANCHESTER, N.H. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' Democrats running for president here in the snow-blanketed hills, valleys, towns and villages of this legendary New England political bellwether need to lighten up a bit.
We all know that politics is a serious business, but not so serious that we can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t share...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Made It Safe to Say 'Merry Christmas' Again]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/12/24/trump_made_it_safe_to_say_merry_christmas_again.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Benedetto</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On a blustery, snowy Sunday afternoon in early February 2016, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was holding forth before a cheering crowd in the jam-packed SNHU ice hockey arena in Manchester, New Hampshire.
It was two days before the state'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s first-in-the-nation...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Let Us Now Praise Famous Pols]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/12/03/let_us_now_praise_famous_pols_138812.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Benedetto</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The passing of President George H.W. Bush, and the subsequent lavish praise being heaped upon him not only from people in politics and statesmen around the globe, but also from the news media, serve as a stark reminder that we don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t do enough to honor our public servants while they...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When Bedlam Reigned in Lake Placid]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/02/20/when_bedlam_reigned_in_lake_placid__136313.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Benedetto</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One cannot help being awed by the glitz and glamor of the 2018 Winter Olympics now running full tilt in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Watching the spectacle unfold on television, I am reminded of the less-glitzy-and-glamorous Olympic competitions staged on snow and ice 38 years ago in Lake...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Media Erect Roadblocks to Trump Budget Plan]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/03/21/media_erect_roadblocks_to_trump_budget_plan_133388.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Benedetto</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If President Trump is counting on the media to help push the cuts he proposed in his fiscal 2018 budget, he can forget it.
When the first Trump budget was unveiled last week, the news media exploded with exaggerated and heart-rending tales of the human, natural and material pain and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[History and Hope Weigh Upon Inauguration Day]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/01/20/history_and_hope_weigh_upon_inauguration_day_132843.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Benedetto</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The nation comes together today to celebrate the American presidency, a most complex and contradictory office, but a most ingenious one nonetheless.
It has endured for 228 years, peacefully passing, as of today, into the hands of 44 different men, some great and some not so great....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Media, Still Throwing a Fit Over Trump]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/11/30/the_media_still_throwing_a_fit_over_trump_132459.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Benedetto</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The news media, in the aftermath of their self-perceived failure to prevent a Donald Trump presidential victory, are throwing a temper tantrum.
'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Thwarted in their collective effort to coronate Hillary Clinton, they have resorted to holding their breath, stamping their feet and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Presidential Transition Work Has Already Begun]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/07/31/presidential_transition_work_has_already_begun_131380.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Benedetto</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, their parties'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' nominations secured, are now out on the campaign trail boasting that they are well-equipped and highly prepared to step into the Oval Office next January 20 and run the country boldly and successfully.
'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' But are they? Probably not....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Sanders Follow Jackson's '88 Convention Script?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/06/09/will_sanders_follow_jacksons_88_convention_script.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Benedetto</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' vow to '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'fight on'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' to the Democratic National Convention next month in Philadelphia despite his apparent loss of the presidential nomination to Hillary Clinton is not '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'unprecedented,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' a word we in the media use too much.
Nearly 30 years ago, Jesse...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Obama Gets Away With It]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Benedetto</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At a time when large numbers of Americans say they are fed up with politics and politicians, why is it that the nation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s chief politician, President Obama, seems to skate above it unscathed?Usually when an incumbent president is leaving office and a slew of candidates are battling...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Rise and the Media's Failure to Dig, Inform]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/03/01/trumps_rise_and_the_medias_failure_to_dig_inform_129821.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Benedetto</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Now that Donald Trump has emerged as the man to beat for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, incredulous political scientists, journalists, pundits and a bevy of self-styled political elitists are wringing their hands and asking, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'How did this happen?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'
Their answers...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[George Washington Deserves a Day of His Own]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/02/22/george_washington_deserves_a_day_of_his_own_129736.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Benedetto</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Today is George Washington'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s 284th'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' birthday. Like Abraham Lincoln'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s 207th birthday,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' which passed quietly 10'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' days ago, it will come and go without much fanfare.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 
Thanks to the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, which took effect'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' in 1971,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Congress'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' designated that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Tracks of Politicians' Tears]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/01/07/the_tracks_of_politicians_tears_129226.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Benedetto</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When did it become OK for presidents, or those aspiring to be president, to cry?
It wasn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t that long ago that crying in public was considered a presidential disqualifier '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' a sign of weakness in someone we expected to be ramrod strong in the face of a harsh and cruel world of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Lyndon B. Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/12/17/lyndon_b_obama_129051.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Benedetto</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When it comes to offering progress reports on his war against ISIS, Barack Obama is beginning to sound like a previous wartime Democratic president. It is not a flattering comparison.
Over the past few weeks, Obama has issued several upbeat statements crafted to assure an uneasy American...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[New Media's Failure to Communicate]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/05/26/new_medias_failure_to_communicate_126687.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Benedetto</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ever since Marshall McLuhan told us back in 1962 that the shift from print to electronic media would transform the far-flung tribal Earth into a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'global village,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' we watched the world shrink exponentially as new technological wizardry connected us all with the simple click of a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How a Lame-Duck President Skunked the GOP]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/01/20/how_a_lame_duck_president_skunked_the_gop.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Benedetto</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republicans won back control of Congress in the 2014 midterm elections, but the well-oiled and finely tuned Obama political and media management machine has run roughshod over them ever since.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 
As a result, President Obama heads into his penultimate State of the Union address on...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mario Cuomo: An Appreciation From a Scribe]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Benedetto</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The passing of Mario Cuomo, three-term governor of New York, is being rightly lamented as the loss of an eloquent and passionate champion of '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the least of these'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' who seek to live the American Dream.
As a news reporter who covered him during his early days in Albany in the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Have the Media Ignored the Bergdahl Case?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/11/21/why_have_the_media_ignored_the_bergdahl_case_124716.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Benedetto</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What ever happened to Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  Remember him?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  He is the American soldier held for nearly five years by the Taliban after he allegedly walked away from his Army base in Afghanistan.
Amid much media hoopla, President Obama announced in the Rose Garden in late May that...]]></description>
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