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			<title>New York Observer: Barack Obama For President: The Newest Deal</title>
			<pubDate>2008-11-02T20:19:01.032-05:00</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.observer.com/2008/politics/barack-obama-president-newest-deal</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ "The times call for a leader in tune with the America that is to come, a president who understands that the problems of today and tomorrow require us to think new thoughts. Barack Obama understands that we must restore our American democracy and move forward, as President Roosevelt planned to say in his last speech, 'with a strong and active faith.'" ]]></description>
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			<title>Springfield Republican (MA): Our presidential pick in November election</title>
			<pubDate>2008-11-02T20:18:04.127-05:00</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.masslive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2008/11/our_presidential_pick_in_novem.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ "One can easily imagine that Democrats, with increased majorities in both houses of Congress, will be legislating like it's 1933, and that is not what this nation needs at this time. (Whether the nation needed it in 1933 is a topic for another day.)

McCain will keep us safe, not only from al-Qaida and its sympathizers, but also from the excesses of some of the most liberal members of the Congress." ]]></description>
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			<title>Alabama Press-Register: McCain demonstrates he's the better leader</title>
			<pubDate>2008-11-02T20:14:43.385-05:00</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.al.com/opinion/press-register/editorials.ssf?/base/opinion/1225026973118540.xml&amp;coll=3&amp;thispage=2</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ "We fear Sen. Obama, with his slight resume and detached, ultra-cautious style, serves as a blank screen upon which many of his supporters project their warmest and fuzziest conceptions of themselves.

No one would mistake Sen. McCain for a messianic figure, but he is a tough, battle-scarred, stout-hearted leader. The country will need his kind of leadership over the next four years." ]]></description>
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			<title>Newsday (NY): Newsday editorial board's 2008 endorsements</title>
			<pubDate>2008-11-02T20:13:39.722-05:00</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-opendorsements-2008,0,1912249.story</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ "McCain has been an outstanding public servant. He responded heroically when held captive in Vietnam. He clearly loves his country. But during this campaign he hasn't given the nation any compelling reason to make him president.

Obama has advanced big themes at a time when the nation faces big challenges. We believe he is ready to be the president of the United States. This editorial board endorses Barack Obama." ]]></description>
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			<title>Tulsa World (OK): For John McCain</title>
			<pubDate>2008-11-02T20:12:30.075-05:00</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.tulsaworld.com/opinion/article.aspx?subjectID=61&amp;articleID=20081102_61_G6_h630324</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ "If Obama is elected, we will honestly wish him the best of luck, as we know McCain will. Our nation’s political debates are harsh at times, but that stridency doesn’t prevent us from gathering around the eventual winner with the unifying pledge: We are all Americans now. Let us move forward together.

Since 1940 the Tulsa World has endorsed Republicans in presidential elections. This is not because the Tulsa World is a partisan newspaper -- indeed we have endorsed Democrats more often than not in local elections -- but because in each election the Republican has most closely reflected the values we want in the nation’s top office.

That is as true this time as it has been in the past. " ]]></description>
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			<title>National Review: The Choice</title>
			<pubDate>2008-11-02T20:11:15.378-05:00</pubDate>
			<link>http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=N2Q5YjJkNjVmZjc3NmI3MGQ0MzUzNTg1M2RiMzYxOTM=</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ "McCain has a solid record of opposing economically damaging tax increases. He has always opposed abortion. He has advanced a creative free-market health-care policy, even if he has not done much to defend it against Obama’s dishonest attacks. He is a scourge of wasteful spending and a resolute free trader. He says that he will look for judges who have demonstrated their fidelity to the Constitution as written. We have our differences with McCain, as do most conservatives, on such issues as immigration and stem cells. On each of these issues, however, Obama is at least as mistaken.

We have no doubt that if McCain is president we will find much to criticize. But we will be confident that we have the right commander-in-chief and that liberals do not have a free hand to remake our country. In this election we support Senator McCain and urge all conservatives to do so as well." ]]></description>
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			<title>Arizona Daily Star: Barack Obama for president</title>
			<pubDate>2008-11-02T20:10:24.385-05:00</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.azstarnet.com/opinion/265275</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ "This moment in history requires courage to change. Our nation must find a way to restore the confidence that our government is of the people, by the people, for the people -- all of our people.
We share Obama's vision of America. And we share his urgency." ]]></description>
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			<title>Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: For president: Elect John McCain</title>
			<pubDate>2008-11-02T20:08:28.799-05:00</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/archive/s_596343.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ "The liberal tutorial is that Sen. Obama is a visionary, a man of hope, if not the political equivalent of the Second Coming. And a plurality of the student body appears to accept this at face value. But Obama has sparse political experience, no executive experience, no leadership experience, really, and woefully little experience at much of anything." ]]></description>
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			<title>Nature: America's choice</title>
			<pubDate>2008-10-31T23:16:58.498-04:00</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v455/n7217/full/4551149a.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ "The Oval Office is not a debating chamber, nor is it a faculty club. [...] But a commitment to seeking good advice and taking seriously the findings of disinterested enquiry seems an attractive attribute for a chief executive. [...]

This journal does not have a vote, and does not claim any particular standing from which to instruct those who do. But if it did, it would cast its vote for Barack Obama." ]]></description>
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			<title>Economist: It's time -- America should take a chance and make Barack Obama the next leader of the free world</title>
			<pubDate>2008-10-30T21:02:07.943-04:00</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_id=12516666</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ "There is no getting around the fact that Mr Obama's résumé is thin for the world’s biggest job. But the exceptionally assured way in which he has run his campaign is a considerable comfort. It is not just that he has more than held his own against Mr McCain in the debates. A man who started with no money and few supporters has out-thought, out-organised and outfought the two mightiest machines in American politics -- the Clintons and the conservative right." ]]></description>
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			<title>Seed Magazine: Barack Obama for President</title>
			<pubDate>2008-10-30T00:31:04.328-04:00</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2008/10/obama_for_president.php</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ "Sen. Obama's embrace of transparency and evidence-based decision-making, his intelligence and curiosity echo this new way of looking at the world. And that is what we should be weighing in the voting booth. For his positions and, even more, for his way of coming to them, we endorse Barack Obama for President of the United States." ]]></description>
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			<title>Boston Phoenix: Obama for president</title>
			<pubDate>2008-10-30T00:30:33.158-04:00</pubDate>
			<link>http://thephoenix.com/Boston/News/71123-Obama-for-president/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ "The challenge facing the next president will be the greatest in recent memory: to restore the nation’s international standing while simultaneously rebuilding a shell-shocked economy. So great is the job ahead, it is difficult not to imagine that an Obama presidency at times might falter. But Obama’s energy, eloquence, intelligence, and temperament make him the candidate best equipped to inspire our nation and wrestle with the future." ]]></description>
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			<title>South Florida Sun-Sentinel: Make it President Barack Obama</title>
			<pubDate>2008-10-30T00:29:49.506-04:00</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/opinion/sfl-neweditobamaendorsement,0,5322875.story</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ "Remember 'mission accomplished' and 'bring it on'? America has had enough of false bravado, gambles and brinksmanship.

The country needs steady leadership, not a reckless decider. Someone who inspires, not divides. America did not find a uniter in George W. Bush. It should look for it in a President Barack Obama." ]]></description>
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			<title>Washington Times: McCain for president</title>
			<pubDate>2008-10-28T18:34:32.311-04:00</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/28/for-president/print/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ "By contrast, Mr. McCain's experience is impressive. In the Navy, he commanded pilots amid the boom of enemy guns and, as a prisoner, suffered five years of torture and trial that would wreck a lesser man. As a leader, he has bucked president and party while reaching out to old enemies, like Vietnam and Sen. Ted Kennedy." ]]></description>
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			<title>Fort Worth Star-Telegram: Recommendation: President of the United States</title>
			<pubDate>2008-10-27T21:12:52.904-04:00</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.star-telegram.com/225/story/996463.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ "John McCain's love of country and passion for public service are indisputable. He can never be thanked enough for the suffering and sacrifice he endured on behalf of his fellow soldiers during his honorable and heroic military service.

In a different time and under different circumstances, he likely would have been our choice for president.

But 2008 is not his time. " ]]></description>
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			<title>The New Republic: Obama for President</title>
			<pubDate>2008-10-27T21:23:06.316-04:00</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=e2bb322b-9fed-48d3-8d29-5b70f97939f4</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ "You can already grasp the political benefits of this style. It's striking how many conservatives have complimented Obama, even those who oppose him. No less than Charles Krauthammer has declared that he possesses a 'first-class intellect and a first-class temperament.' His appeal to the right has everything to do with his detached style. Obama has even been described as a Burkean. Unlike Bush, he actually listens to those with whom he vehemently disagrees; and, in the course of debating John McCain, he frequently, and without hesitation, voiced agreement." ]]></description>
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			<title>The Journal News (Westchester, NY): Our recommendation for president</title>
			<pubDate>2008-10-27T21:21:33.832-04:00</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.lohud.com/article/20081026/OPINION/810260325/1015/OPINION01</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ "The recent events compel us to wonder how the Republican ticket might have prospered had McCain added someone with real business heft, perhaps former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. No doubt, McCain would have helped himself, just as Obama helped Obama by picking as his running mate Sen. Joe Biden, an authority on foreign affairs. Another matter for a contemplative McCain to ponder, when his running mate's 15 minutes have run their course. By then, we hope that America will have moved on." ]]></description>
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			<title>Syracuse Post-Standard: Obama for President: The Illinois senator offers the best hope for America in a troubled time</title>
			<pubDate>2008-10-27T21:18:44.858-04:00</pubDate>
			<link>http://blog.syracuse.com/opinion/2008/10/obama_for_president_the_illino.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ "[Obama] has consistently shown an impressive, nuanced grasp of issues both domestic and foreign. And he has shown an uncanny ability to inspire people, both in America and abroad. Combined with his call for greater service to country, he has the potential to reinvigorate a dispirited nation -- especially its youth, who have been excited by Obama as by no other presidential candidate in recent history." ]]></description>
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			<title>Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ): Barack Obama for president</title>
			<pubDate>2008-10-27T21:17:42.141-04:00</pubDate>
			<link>http://blog.nj.com/njv_editorial_page/2008/10/barack_obama_for_president.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ "Last summer, before the economic crisis, Obama said he had chosen to seek the presidency at this moment in history because he was convinced 'we cannot solve the challenges of our time unless we solve them together -- unless we perfect our union by understanding that we may have different stories, but we hold common hopes; that we may not look the same and we may not have come from the same place, but we all want to move in the same direction -- towards a better future for our children and our grandchildren.'

We believe Barack Obama offers the best hope for what he has called the promise of our ideals at a time when we most need to reaffirm what it means to be Americans." ]]></description>
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			<title>Providence Journal (RI): Editorial: Obama for president</title>
			<pubDate>2008-10-27T21:16:36.236-04:00</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.projo.com/opinion/editorials/content/ED_obama26_10-26-08_8BC0MHT_v47.3e2b640.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ "The next president will have to deal with a Congress that, although almost certainly Democratic, will sometimes want to go its own way. And all successful American politicians must be willing to shift course and endlessly experiment in that broad center that Americans want to stay in." ]]></description>
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			<title>Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (NY): Obama and Biden can help restore America's greatness</title>
			<pubDate>2008-10-27T21:15:21.534-04:00</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20081026/OPINION04/810260425/1041/OPINION</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ "Cleaning up the mess left behind by George W. Bush won't be easy. But Obama vows to bring American troops home from Iraq within 16 months. He'd also bring longtime allies back into the fold and strengthen diplomatic ties where there are kinks." ]]></description>
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			<title>Grand Rapids Press (MI): For president -- John McCain</title>
			<pubDate>2008-10-27T21:18:00.766-04:00</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.mlive.com/grpress/opinion/index.ssf/2008/10/editorial_for_president_john_m.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ "The next president will face a deepening economic crisis at home, and the challenge abroad to carefully extricate the country from the war in Iraq while finding a new strategy to fight a resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan. National security has receded in the face of the country's Wall Street woes. But extremist forces continue to lurk, waiting to strike. The next great crisis for the United States may be the one nobody foresees. That calls for a leader who is tested and battle-hardened." ]]></description>
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			<title>Richmond Times-Dispatch: Time for McCain</title>
			<pubDate>2008-10-27T21:15:03.449-04:00</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/opinion.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-10-26-0058.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ "McCain seeks sensible, incremental changes to make health care more available and more affordable, while avoiding Obama's magical claims about reducing [...] On this issue, the Arizona senator has suffered unfairly because his plan is nuanced and realistic while his opponent's relies on demagogy and outlandish promises." ]]></description>
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			<title>Harrisburg Patriot-News (PA): Obama shows temperament, judgment to be a good president</title>
			<pubDate>2008-10-27T21:14:40.348-04:00</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.pennlive.com/editorials/patriotnews/index.ssf?/base/opinion/1224876315149201.xml&amp;coll=1</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ " If Palin's selection energized the GOP's conservative base, her thin resume called into question her readiness to assume the presidency if need be, the primary duty of the vice president. To put someone in a position for which she is unprepared is not only unfair to that person, but reckless in its implications for the country's governance.

Obama meanwhile chose a running mate, the long-serving U.S. senator from Delaware, Joe Biden, with vast knowledge of both domestic issues and foreign policy, experience that would well serve an Obama administration. " ]]></description>
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			<title>The Oklahoman: Experience, toughness make McCain best choice</title>
			<pubDate>2008-10-27T21:22:56.280-04:00</pubDate>
			<link>http://newsok.com/experience-toughness-make-mccain-best-choice/article/3315471?custom_click=headlines_widget</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ "Yet in a sense, all are secondary to the unique obligation a president bears to provide crisis leadership. McCain is older and, we think, wiser in the ways of the world. He has seen much more of it than his younger opponent. His real-world experience goes beyond the world of politics. He has seen evil up close and knows the horror of war." ]]></description>
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