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		<title>The Full Rubio: A Politician Above Politics Hits A Record Seven Sunday Shows</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/04/15/the-full-rubio-a-politician-above-politics-hits-a-record-seven-sunday-shows/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Scherer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To paraphrase Bill Burroughs, the late junkie novelist, beware of salesmen who don&#8217;t want money. What they mean is they want more money. Much more. It&#8217;s a line to hold in mind while watching the Sunday political talk shows, a medium that requires a false humility from many of its guests, especially when those guests are preparing campaigns for higher office. The interviews are high-profile campaign stops. But by tradition, the candidates or would-be candidates must pretend political calculation has no place in their thinking. And so we come to Marco Rubio, a junior Senator from Florida, who broke a record on Sunday by appearing on seven Sunday network shows to sell this week&#8217;s Senate proposal to reform the nation&#8217;s immigration rules. Running the table like this was once called the &#8220;Full Ginsburg,&#8221; after William H. Ginsburg who first showed the feat was possible in 1998, when he appeared as the attorney to Monica Lewinsky on all five network Sunday shows—ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox News and CNN. Since then, Wikipedia says that 16 officials have done the Full Ginsburg. But none before had ever done the basic five and both Spanish-language networks, Univision and Telemundo. Rubio did all that, and he did the two Spanish networks in Spanish. A Full Rubio. The ostensible topic this Sunday was immigration reform, for which Rubio has become the flag bearer of a bipartisan solution. But as he repeated his soundbites over and over again, delivering the same lines in two languages on gun control, Jay-Z in Cuba and why a path to citizenship is not the &#8220;amnesty&#8221; his critics say it is, it became clear that the real topic was Marco Rubio, an emerging poster child for a possible future of the Republican Party, Spanish speaking, post-&#8221;self-deportation,&#8221; populist, empathetic, potentially transformational in 2016. &#8220;We are not the party of the people who made it,&#8221; said Rubio on Meet The Press, in one of his several ear-catching refrains. In the tradition of many before him, however, Rubio refused to admit the obvious. Politics? What<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=92847&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rubio Supports Giving Ammunition, But Not Arms, to Syria</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/02/28/rubio-supports-giving-ammunition-but-not-arms-to-syria-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 10:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senator Marco Rubio, the rising Republican star and 2016 presidential hopeful, weighed in on foreign policy Wednesday, saying he supports giving the Syrian opposition ammunition, but not arms, and increased access to intelligence. “The best-organized, the best-armed and the best-equipped elements in Syria are the most radical ones, the most anti-democratic ones, the most anti-American ones,” Rubio said in a speech at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. “There are plenty of weapons in Syria; they’re coming from other countries, they’re being confiscated. What the opposition really needs is access to ammunition&#8230; [A] step that I’m prepared to advocate for is the provision of ammunition to opposition groups within Syria. In addition, at the right time, with increased capacity is increased intelligence sharing.” Providing ammo and intel would go farther than what the Obama Administration is currently considering. The Washington Post reported on Wednesday that the Administration is weighing for the first time in the two-year-old conflict direct aid to the Syrian opposition, including armored vehicles and body armor. Rubio said he supports these moves but wanted to do more. At the same Rubio did not go as far as some of his Republican colleagues, such as Senator John McCain of Arizona who backs arming the rebels. The Syrian opposition has been seeking anti-aircraft weapons for months as the regime’s warplanes bomb them. In the past, Rubio has tried to find middle ground between GOP realists and neo-conservatives, staking out moderate policies that don’t differ too much from those of President Obama. He made that point himself at times on Wednesday. He has said he supports international organizations and foreign aid; doesn’t believe Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi’s administration is an Islamist regime in democratic clothing; and resists the isolationist tendencies of the Tea Party. “No middle class job is completely immune to global factors, so we should care what’s happening around the world,” he said. “One thing about foreign policy is, by and large, it&#8217;s not a partisan issue.” As a potential 2016 GOP presidential candidate, Rubio has been<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=89208&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marco Rubio&#8217;s Gulpgate</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/02/13/marco-rubios-gulpgate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sen. Marco Rubio had a dry mouth during the Republican Address to the Nation, leading to an awkward, off-screen grab for a Poland Spring bottle. Rubio poked some fun at himself afterwards, tweeting out a picture of the water bottle. UPDATE: Rubio responds on ABC’s Good Morning America.  “I needed water, what am I going to do?” Rubio said on Wednesday. “God has a funny way of reminding us we’re human.” Watch the clip below: Click here to read Rubio&#8217;s full address to the nation.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=87966&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marco Rubio Responds to Obama&#8217;s State of the Union</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/02/13/marco-rubio-responds-to-obamas-state-of-the-union/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 10:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Grunwald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let’s just stipulate that the response to the State of the Union is a lousy assignment. There’s no audience, no applause, no podium where you can stash water within easy reaching distance. You inevitably look like you’re filming a hostage video, or an ad for your local car dealership, or a podcast in your basement. You have to respond to a speech you haven’t even heard, and your role is strictly partisan; your job is to attack the president, who can look like a statesman because he doesn’t have to stoop to attack you. You basically have to predict doom, and it’s tough to do that without sounding like you’re rooting for doom. (WATCH: Liveblogging Obama&#8217;s State of the Union Address) So considering the circumstances, Florida senator Marco Rubio did OK. It was nowhere near his best speech, but it was nowhere near the clueless-dweeb disaster that turned Bobby Jindal into a Kenneth the Page punchline in 2009. As usual, Rubio was most compelling when he talked about his working-class parents, his student loans, and his modest bedroom community; on policy, he mostly rehashed familiar anti-Obama talking points about big government, tax hikes and Solyndra. He can be mesmerizing talking optimistically about free enterprise and American exceptionalism and the American Dream; he sounded sour and defensive whining about Obama’s suggestions that Republicans protect the rich. He barely talked about immigration, the issue where he had such interesting things to say in our cover story this week. But Rubio didn’t embarrass himself. He got to introduce himself to millions of Americans who missed his Republican National Convention speech because they were still in shock over the Clint Eastwood fiasco. He talked about the middle class, while reminding the country that he’s part of it. And the media hubbub over his awkward lunge for his Poland Springs bottle—Watergate!—might help distract from his generic rehash of Mitt Romney’s policy playbook. If Republicans believe that they lost in 2012 because Romney was a boring rich white guy who alienated Hispanics, they got to see<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=87929&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marco Rubio: The Rest of the Story</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/02/11/marco-rubio-the-rest-of-the-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 12:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Grunwald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve gotten a lot of interesting feedback about my Marco Rubio cover story, most of it about stuff that wasn’t in the story. I heard from “birthers” upset that I didn’t question Rubio’s eligibility for the presidency, which I guess proves that some kooks are capable of intellectual consistency. I heard from Florida Democrats upset that I didn’t delve into Rubio’s awkward history of personal finance; it just seemed small-bore to me, even his mini-scandal involving personal expenses on a political credit card. And some readers asked why I didn’t mention that back when Rubio was a hopeless Senate candidate polling 30 points behind then-Governor Charlie Crist, I wrote a story explaining why he was going to win anyway. OK, OK, nobody really asked about that. I just enjoy bringing it up. But I did want to discuss two actual omissions from the Rubio profile in a bit more detail. The most common complaint was that I didn’t say enough about Rubio’s right-wing views—his foreign-policy neoconservatism, his tax-policy ultraconservatism, his hard-line opposition to the Violence Against Women Act, the repeal of don’t-ask-don’t-tell, Obamacare, Wall Street reform, raising the debt ceiling, and so on. As a few readers pointed out, I had just written a column warning that Tea Party purism was dooming the Republican Party, yet here was a relatively sympathetic profile of a Tea Party purist. As a Florida resident and a clean-energy obsessive, doesn’t it bug me that my junior senator opposes climate action? Well, yes. All I can say is that my story was about an issue where Rubio isn’t a purist, immigration, and the fascinating personal and political journey that has led him into the forefront of that issue. Rubio is the perfect front man for a party that believes its main problems are messaging and Hispanic outreach, a party that believes the only policies it needs to tweak are its immigration policies. I don’t believe that, but TIME has written a lot about the GOP, and so have I, here and here, here and (back<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=87674&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Immigrant Son</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/02/07/immigrant-son/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 11:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Grunwald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oriales García Rubio knows how it feels to want more. When she was a girl in central Cuba in the 1930s, her family of nine lived in a one-room house with a dirt floor. Her dolls were Coke bottles dressed in rags. She dreamed of becoming an actress. Instead she married a security guard, moved with him to the U.S. and found work as a hotel maid. Her husband got a job as a bartender while starting a series of failed businesses—a vegetable stand, a dry cleaner, a grocery. They never had much. But their house had a real floor. Their daughters had real dolls. They sent all four of their children to college to chase their own dreams. That’s why on the morning of Dec. 21, she called her youngest son, Marco Antonio Rubio, the 41-year-old Senator from Florida and great Hispanic hope of the Republican Party—or, as she calls him, Tony. She got his voice mail. “Tony, some loving advice from the person who cares for you most in the world,” she said in Spanish. “Don’t mess with the immigrants, my son. Please, don’t mess with them.” She reminded him that undocumented Americans—los pobrecitos, she called them, the poor things—work hard and get treated horribly. “They’re human beings just like us, and they came for the same reasons we came. To work. To improve their lives. So please, don’t mess with them.” (PHOTOS: Marco Rubio, Republican Savior) Rubio comes from a family of immigrants and married into another family of immigrants and lives in a neighborhood of immigrants, West Miami, the bilingual bedroom community where he came of age and began his dazzling ascent from city commissioner to state house speaker to U.S. Senator. Now, just two years after he arrived in Washington, the charismatic conservative often hailed as the Tea Party’s answer to Barack Obama has emerged as the most influential voice in the national debate over immigration reform. He’s also the key player in his party’s efforts to make up to Hispanic voters after a disastrous 2012<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=87447&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can Marco Rubio Win More Latinos Over to the GOP?</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/14/can-marco-rubio-win-more-latinos-over-to-the-gop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 10:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Padgett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have always been skeptical of the conventional Beltway wisdom that Florida Senator Marco Rubio will be the politico who finally builds bridges between Latinos and Republicans. It’s not that Rubio isn’t a capable envoy; his efforts to craft an alternative version of the DREAM Act (legislation to let illegal immigrants brought to the U.S. as children stay in the country) prove he’s serious about outreach. But as a Cuban-American, Rubio represents only 3% of the U.S. Latino population, and that 3% is largely estranged from the rest of the Latino cohort, who tend to resent what they call the free pass los cubanos get on immigration. To think that Mexican-Americans, who make up two-thirds of U.S. Latinos, will embrace Rubio just because he has a Spanish surname simply points up the cluelessness that dug the GOP its Latino hole in the first place. But in his May 10 remarks to Iowa business leaders who had gathered in Washington, Rubio may have helped narrow the uneasy gap between Cubans and the rest of Latinos. That’s because he took the unprecedented step of comparing the designated beneficiaries of the DREAM Act – who are mostly of Mexican, Central and South American descent – to “Cuban refugees,” who receive preferential immigration treatment because they’re escaping the Castro dictatorship. Extending similar consideration to non-Cuban teenagers and young adults who were brought to the U.S. as children by their illegal immigrant parents is “a humanitarian mission,” said Rubio, 40, himself the son of legal immigrants. “We have a chance to allow them to get right what their parents got wrong.” Despite his emphasis on the illegality of those undocumented parents, many non-Cuban Latinos are likely to be impressed with the way Rubio is now framing the DREAM discussion. Perhaps most important, they&#8217;re likely to see it as a welcome departure from a Cuban-American attitude of exclusivity. For decades, groups like Mexicans, Guatemalans and Colombians – some fleeing political and economic conditions as brutal as communist Cuba’s – have stewed while watching Cubans avail themselves<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=70854&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rubio Gives a Smart Speech, But Can He Go Off-Script on Foreign Policy?</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/04/26/rubio-gives-a-smart-speech-but-can-he-go-off-script-on-foreign-policy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Crowley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marco Rubio&#8217;s &#8220;major foreign policy speech&#8221; on Wednesday involved loads of meta-analysis about his vice presidential prospects and political positioning. But it did turn out to be a relatively learned and substantive speech, at least by the admittedly not-high standards of a young U.S. Senator. Rubio outlined a kind of internationalist-hawk vision, spurning both the isolationist and unilateralist streaks within his party while critiquing the left&#8217;s realism (in Syria) and aversion to force (in Iran). On Syria, for instance, Rubio gave one of the most reasoned arguments I&#8217;ve seen for an American intervention to help topple the Assad regime. &#8220;The fall of Assad would be a significant blow to Iran’s ambitions. On those grounds alone, we should be seeking to help the people of Syria bring him down,&#8221; Rubio said. &#8220;But on the Foreign Relations committee, I have noticed that some members are so concerned about the challenges of a post-Assad Syria that they have lost sight of the advantages of it.&#8221; Read the speech for his full rationale. Now, giving a nice speech is all well and good. It demonstrates, at a minimum, that he has talented advisers. (Rubio heaps praise on Robert Kagan&#8217;s recent book, which President Obama has also cited, and about which I recently wrote a story. I don&#8217;t know whether Kagan helped with this speech.) At the same time, any dimwit can pay someone else to write a nice speech for him. So when Rubio says that &#8220;Russia’s domestic politics shape its foreign policies. An autocratic Russia tends to be more anti-Western,&#8221; I&#8217;m left wondering whether this is an insight gleaned from his heretofore unknown reading and reflection on that country&#8217;s long history, or whether this snappy line is the rhetorical equivalent of a clip-on bow tie. The way to know whether someone actually knows what they&#8217;re talking about, of course, is to see them discuss it in an unscripted, extemporaneous way. So, give a tip of the cap to Rubio for delivering a fine address. It remains to be seen how well he fares<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=70030&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Kony Factor in Rubio&#8217;s &#8216;Major Speech&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/04/25/the-kony-factor-in-rubios-major-speech/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Crowley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mike Allen&#8217;s Playbook features an excerpt from a &#8220;major foreign policy speech&#8221; Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio is giving today at the Council on Foreign Relations. Rubio may not be Sarah Palin, but he does make more grand pronouncements about foreign policy than you&#8217;d expect from a 40-year-old freshman senator and ex-state legislator. I&#8217;m also puzzled by this passage excerpted by Allen: And I disagree with voices in my own party who argue we should not engage at all. Who warn we should heed the words of John Quincy Adams not to go ‘abroad, in search of monsters to destroy’ … “I disagree because all around us we see the human face of America’s influence in the world. It actually begins with not just our government, but our people. Millions of people have been the catalyst of democratic change in their own countries. But they never would have been able to connect with each other if an American had not invented Twitter. The atrocities of Joseph Kony would still be largely unknown. But in fact, millions now know because an American filmmaker made a short film about it and then distributed it on another American invention YouTube.  Without a full transcript it&#8217;s hard to say for sure, but it sounds like Rubio acts as though no one was paying attention to Kony&#8217;s wickedness until the Kony 2012 video went viral. But surely Rubio knows that President Obama dispatched U.S. Special Forces to Uganda back in October, months before Kony became a household name (and was rewarded with attacks from the right). We&#8217;ll see whether the full speech gives Obama credit for this. The &#8220;major speech&#8221; is a strange convention of politics, by the way. Politicians grandiosely apply the &#8220;major&#8221; label to their own remarks, mostly as a way of attracting press interest, and often serving up a platitude gumbo to enhance the pol&#8217;s &#8220;stature.&#8221; The term has now been so watered down that any speech not billed as &#8220;major&#8221; feels like a throwaway, as though the speaker doesn&#8217;t care if<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=69976&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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