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		<title>Obama Stumbles? Why the President&#8217;s Right to Talk About Bain</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/25/obama-stumbles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 14:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Klein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The meme of the day in journo-world is that President Obama has stumbled at the outset of the general election campaign. The evidence for this? Well, uh, there isn&#8217;t very much, really&#8211;except that a few Democrats have criticized his campaign&#8217;s attacks on Mitt Romney&#8217;s record at Bain Capital and that Obama&#8217;s fundraising is merely humongous, instead [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=71317&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cherokee Zero</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 14:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Klein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently, Massachusetts voters don&#8217;t mind that Elizabeth Warren foolishly identified herself as a Native American early in her academic career&#8211;it was, apparently, a case of family pride and wishful thinking about a Cherokee ancestor. That&#8217;s good. Warren may be the best public figure when it comes to explaining the depredations of the financial industry and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=71291&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Latest Column</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/24/latest-column-92/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 13:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Klein</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On what we should learn from 11 years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=71288&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our Pakistani Allies</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/23/our-pakistani-allies-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 13:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Klein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In another demonstration of diplomatic silliness, the Pakistanis have convicted the doctor who helped us find Osama bin Laden of treason and sentenced him to 33 years in prison. This helps to clarify which side the Pakistanis are actually on. Hint: it&#8217;s not ours. I&#8217;ll have more about this in my print column tomorrow.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=71259&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Iran Nuke Concession?</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/22/iran-nuke-concession/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 20:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Klein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times is reporting that Iran may be about to open its Parchin military facility to international inspections. This is a biggish deal, but not a complete breakthrough. Parchin is where Iran may have been conducting experiments on weaponizing its nuclear fuel; there has been speculation that the facility housed a chamber to test [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=71227&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Health Care Box</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/21/obamas-health-care-box/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 15:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Klein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 Election]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alec MacGillis of the NewRepublic has been doing some fine campaign reporting this year and here he offers a smart look at what may be the most important state of all in November&#8211;Ohio. The most striking part of the piece for me, one that illuminates an essential conundrum for Barack Obama, occurs when MacGillis goes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=71178&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Romney Stands Up</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/18/romney-stands-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 13:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Klein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 Election]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the Jeremiah Wright ad campaign zooms into the dustbin of history, it must be noted that Mitt Romney promptly and firmly did the right thing. He denounced it: “I want to make it very clear: I repudiate that effort,” Romney said at a news conference. “I think it’s the wrong course.. . . I hope that our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=71098&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Close the Deficit (A Little)</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/17/how-to-close-the-deficit-a-little/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 22:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Klein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Budgets]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My colleague Fareed Zakaria has a really smart column today about Germany&#8217;s role in the Greek debt crisis&#8211;and guess what? He&#8217;s not bashing the Germans for fiscal austerity. He&#8217;s praising them for the compassion they&#8217;ve shown, at a stiff cost to German taxpayers, to keep the Greeks afloat. For me, though, the most interesting thing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=71052&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Ugly? Really, Really Ugly</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/17/how-ugly-really-really-ugly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 15:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Klein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a front-page story in the New York Times about the possibility that a right-wing super PAC will launch a racially charged attack against President Obama centering on his relationship with the dreadful Rev. Jeremiah Wright. This is the campaign that John McCain famously, and honorably, refused to launch in 2008. I suspect it probably [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=71020&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Latest Column: The Nuke Negotiations</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/17/latest-column-the-nuke-negotiations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 14:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Klein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It looks like Iran is going to make a serious proposal at next week&#8217;s round of nuclear talks in Baghdad. But the true test for President Obama will be whether he can hold his coalition together to continue economic sanctions until the Iranians agree to the most important item on the agenda&#8211;intrusive inspections of Iranian facilities [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=71017&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Recalcitrant Romney</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/16/recalcitrant-romney/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 15:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Klein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mitt Romney is clearly a candidate terrified by his own mouth. What other explanation for his campaign&#8217;s extreme efforts to prevent reporters from asking him questions? I know that there isn&#8217;t much public sympathy for journalistic whining&#8211;including my own occasional, stupid laments&#8211;about the lack of access. But Romney&#8217;s staff has clearly taken this to a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=70976&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jamie Dimon&#8217;s Worst Nightmare</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/13/jamie-dimons-worst-nightmare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 14:14:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Klein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at the conservative American Enterprise Institute blog, James Pethokoukis has an idea that could be a total game-changer for Mitt Romney: he should come out for breaking up the five biggest banks, which control about 70% of all U.S. assets. This would be a move supported by discerning liberals and conservatives&#8211;as I wrote yesterday, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=70848&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jamie Dimon&#8217;s Moral Hazard</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/12/jamie-dimons-moral-hazard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 13:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Klein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jamie Dimon of JPMorganChase once was Barack Obama&#8217;s favorite banker, a big backer of the President&#8217;s 2008 campaign. But he&#8217;s been blowing hard and often when it turned out that Obama was attempting to&#8211;gasp!&#8211;regulate the banking industry after its wanton recklessness caused the stock market, and the economy, to crash. Dimon has gone on to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=70842&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bully Pulpit Second Thoughts</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/11/bully-pulpit-second-thoughts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 13:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Klein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I fear that I went too easy on Mitt Romney with regard to his high school bullying escapades. It&#8217;s not the incident itself that troubles me — though it was, obviously, outrageous and disgraceful — so much as his current response: He doesn&#8217;t remember it. This is patent nonsense. How could he not remember it? Obviously [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=70783&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Bully Pulpit</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/10/the-bully-pulpit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 22:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Klein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 Election]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes you feel an otherworldly&#8211;perhaps even divine&#8211;presence in the affairs of humankind. Today we have the astonishing juxtaposition of President Obama&#8217;s awkward, belated embrace of gay marriage, and the painful Washington Post story about Mitt Romney&#8217;s days as a bully at the ritzy Cranbrook School in Detroit. In the end, I suspect, neither of these [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=70768&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Campaign Road Trip 2012: Announcing Another Cross-Country Tour!</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/09/campaign-road-trip-2012-announcing-another-cross-country-tour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 11:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Klein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The campaign is in a lull. The wars overseas are winding down. Washington is paralyzed. I&#8217;ve loaded up my iPod with some new songs. There&#8217;s nothing to do but&#8230;.hit the road! And so, my third annual election road trip will commence on May 31&#8211;for three weeks through presidential battleground states, from North Carolina to, well, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=70605&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Neoconned</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/05/neoconned/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 14:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Klein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In the Arena]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mideast]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The illustrious patriots over at the Commentary blog have, predictably, taken me to task for defending Peter Beinart&#8217;s fine book about the crisis in Israel. They have done so in a predictably specious way. So I&#8217;d like to make my position, and theirs, perfectly clear: the argument against West Bank settlements is not merely a demographic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=70502&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And, er, What About the Settlements?</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/03/and-er-what-about-the-settlements/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 20:40:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Klein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The neoconservative assault on Peter Beinart&#8217;s fine book, The Crisis of Zionism, continues. It has taken many forms&#8211;ad hominem attacks usually and now, mocking his sales figures. Indeed, it has taken many forms but one: there still  is no coherent response to Beinart&#8217;s argument that the West Bank settlement policy is a long-term demographic threat to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=70421&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Learning That Works</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/03/learning-that-works/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 14:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Klein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My latest print piece&#8211;longer than a column this week&#8211;is about the revival of what used to be called vocational education, but is now called Career and Technical Education. It&#8217;s probably the best way to train young people for skilled jobs that actually exist, especially when done in partnership with local businesses&#8211;but more than that, it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=70361&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Most Ridiculous Campaign Issue. Evah.</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/03/most-ridiculous-campaign-issue-evah/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 13:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Klein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[In the Arena]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The estimable Elizabeth Warren is running for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts against the incumbent Scott Brown. It turns out that Warren used to list herself as &#8220;Native American&#8221; in law school directories when she was teaching at Georgetown, Penn and Harvard. This has now become a campaign issue, the implication being that Warren, who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=70357&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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