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		<title>Winning Roe v. Wade: Q&amp;A with Sarah Weddington</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2013/01/22/winning-roe-v-wade-qa-with-sarah-weddington/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie Lapinski</dc:creator>
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		<title>Q&amp;A: Gary Johnson on His Failed Presidential Bid and What&#8217;s Next</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/11/09/qa-gary-johnson-on-his-failed-presidential-bid-and-whats-next/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2012 21:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson won 1.1 million votes on Tuesday, more than any other Libertarian presidential candidate in history. In an interview with TIME, Johnson talks about his campaign, the consequences of re-electing Obama and his plans for the future. Was it worth it? As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren&#8217;t enjoying what you are doing, change it. That&#8217;s the way I operate, and if this campaign hadn&#8217;t been worth it every day, I wouldn&#8217;t have been out there. The ideas we are promoting are important, and having the opportunity to go out and promote them every day is not only worth it but essential. What was the high point of the campaign for you? There were many great moments, but the most heartening experience was visiting college campuses around the country and having hundreds of young people turn out to ask the tough questions, enlist in our movement and display a level of energy that was truly encouraging for the future. What do you think your candidacy accomplished? I hope that people will see that we don&#8217;t have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative. Of course, now that we appear to have re-elected the status quo, both in the White House and in the Congress, I hope those same people will see that there is a very real need for the process to welcome, rather than exclude, new and different ideas. Any predictions for Obama&#8217;s second term? Regardless of who wins, an election should be a time for optimism and fresh approaches. It obviously remains to be seen if that will be the case in a second Obama term. I fear that it will not be. I am actually one of those who took President Obama<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=82165&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A: Jennifer Granholm on the Secrets of Debate Prep</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/10/02/qa-jennifer-granholm-on-the-secrets-of-debate-prep/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 16:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tina Fey isn’t the only woman who has done a notable impression of Sarah Palin. In 2008, former Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm played the Alaskan in mock debates with Joe Biden. As this cycle’s presidential candidates prepared for Wednesday night&#8217;s face-off, TIME chatted with Granholm about what goes on behind those closed doors — and why the Current TV host has predicted that Obama will lose the first matchup. What is the most important part of preparing for a debate? Definitely making sure that the stand-in is armed with the toughest facts, the hardest questions, the most uncomfortable issues that the candidate has to be prepared to respond to. It requires a good amount of research, to make sure he’s armed with everything that might possibly come up. So is reading briefing books and anticipating questions more important than the time spent sparring with a stand-in? There is no substitute for being on your feet, getting the time and the feel for how to respond. How did you become the Palin stand-in during Biden&#8217;s debate prep in 2008?* The campaign called and asked whether I would do it. I was the only other female governor with kids, and I knew her because we served together as governors, even though her time [in office] was fairly short. Besides having similar biographies, what makes a good stand-in? It’s important to have a good relationship with the candidate. It’s like reading a terrible opposition research memo about yourself in front of a whole bunch of people. It’s just an unpleasant experience, so having somebody that you’re comfortable with is very important. When you played Palin, what were you concentrating on — mannerisms or tone or subjects she might turn to? I wasn’t Tina Fey. But I did watch all of her debates. I studied her positions. I knew where she was coming from, in terms of being connected to her state and feeling like she was there as an advocate on behalf of Alaska, being independent. I internalized a lot of that. And when<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=79249&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A: Herman Cain Isn&#8217;t Looking for a Job from Romney, but He Has a Few Pointers</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/08/27/qa-herman-cain-isnt-looking-for-a-job-from-romney-but-he-has-a-few-pointers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2012 14:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Herman Cain, former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza and 2012 presidential also-ran, went to Tampa to take part in a unity rally on Sunday. TIME caught up with him to chat about the Republican ticket, what he’s doing in Florida and, of course, pizza. What are you trying to achieve in Tampa? I’m trying to send a message of unity. The fact that I didn’t get the nomination — I’m basically trying to tell people it’s not about me, it’s not about them. It’s about defeating Barack Obama. Mitt Romney is the nominee and Paul Ryan is his running mate. I’m here to show support for the ticket and the mission. What do you think about Ryan’s controversial plan for changing Medicare? I don’t think his plan is controversial at all. Ryan’s plan clearly lays out an approach that will save Medicare. That’s what I admire most about Mitt Romney making the decision that he did to select Ryan, because he knew that it was going to put the Medicare debate front and center. If we don’t change anything, it’s going to bankrupt itself. Have you and Romney had contact since you suspended your campaign? We have chatted about, No. 1, what my interests are going forward [in terms of being part of his Administration]. And I said, &#8220;Governor Romney, with all due respect, I’m not lookin’ for a job. I don’t want to be your VP pick, and I don’t want to be a Cabinet member. Because I’ve got other things in my career that I’m interested in doing.&#8221; Did he ask you about those posts in particular? No. I just volunteered that information. I don’t know what he was thinking … No 2., I gave him some advice on sharpening his message. And he has taken a lot of that advice. Last week he rolled out his energy policy. I loved it. It was a five-point plan. And he even said to me, &#8220;Notice, I’m starting to use a number-point plan.&#8221; Do you have any regrets about initially endorsing<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=76511&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mitt&#8217;s Moment: TIME Talks to Romney About Business, Budgets and Beliefs</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/08/23/mitts-moment-time-talks-to-romney-about-business-budgets-and-beliefs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TIME Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Managing editor Rick Stengel and senior correspondent Michael Crowley spoke with the Republican presidential candidate on Tuesday for the Sept. 3 issue of TIME, now available online to subscribers. A lightly edited transcript follows. RICK STENGEL: So I thought I&#8217;d begin jumping off from your dad. The rationale for your candidacy is, I&#8217;m a businessman. I know how to fix the economy. I&#8217;d love for you to talk about the kind of perspective you have as someone who wasn&#8217;t a businessman in the way your dad was, the CEO of a manufacturing company, but someone in private equity and a consultant. What are those attributes that you have that will help you as President in a way that&#8217;s different than the conventional view of the businessman? MITT ROMNEY: Well, consulting offered me an opportunity to see a lot of different businesses in different regions of the world, to see how textiles were being affected by foreign competition, how technology was changing. Telecommunications I was involved with in the very early days of what we now call fiber optic. At that time, we called it optical wave guide, which had been developed by Corning. I had the chance to work in heavy manufacturing with Outboard Marine Corp. [which made] Johnson and Evinrude engines. So I got a chance to work in a number of different industries and see how they were being affected by global affairs and how they made decisions. And I don&#8217;t know that that was particularly different than the experience my dad had. His was a very in-depth — he was working in manufacturing and also competing with international firms. I think regardless of one&#8217;s experience in the private sector, you gain an appreciation for how decisions are made by business people, how competition works, the impact of incentives on consumer behavior. And how you solve difficult challenges. One thing I&#8217;d note also about the experience in the private sector and that is a recognition that if you stand still, if you keep doing what you&#8217;ve been doing<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=76288&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A: Ralph Nader on The Green Party, Obama and Romney</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2012 18:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ralph Nader returned a phone call today to give TIME a statement on current Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, whom we wrote about yesterday: “Jill Stein will ably carry forward the green banner of majoritarian agendas in our country. Let us hope that the two-party duopolized media notices.” While we had the veteran third-party candidate on the line, we asked Nader about his problems with the two-party system, discourse between the two major candidates and the media’s coverage of the race. What do you mean by the Green Party&#8217;s “majoritarian agendas”? They’re for single-payer, everybody in, nobody out, free choice of doctor and hospital. That’s been a majoritarian position for years. Living wage? Overwhelming. Anti-war? [About] 70% want us out of Afghanistan now. The Green Party stands for bringing the soldiers back and curtailing the American empire. Cutting the military budget? A majority of Americans think that the military’s budget is too big and should be cut. Getting rid of special tax breaks for corporations? Overwhelming support. Renegotiating NAFTA and WTO? Majority support. I can go on and on. So why doesn’t the Green Party have a majority-sized following?  That’s the conundrum. A minority party fostering a majority agenda. The reason is that the two-party duopoly has every conceivable way to exclude and depress and harass a third-party. Whether it’s ballot access. Whether it’s harassing petitioners on the street. Whether it’s excluding them from debates. Whether it’s not polling them. And with a two-party, winner-take-all electoral system, it’s easy to enforce all those. Unlike multi-party Western countries where you have proportional representation, the voters [in America] know that if you get 10% of the vote, you don’t get anything. Whereas in Germany, you get 10% of the parliament. So voters say, &#8216;Let’s just vote for the least worst.&#8217; So what are the Green Party’s unique difficulties in 2012? The problem is not its agenda. The problem is that it cannot get a voice in the media. You look at the next four months, and there will be virtually nothing<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=73893&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A: Kris Kobach, the Legal Mind Behind Arizona&#8217;s Immigration Law</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/06/26/qa-kris-kobach-the-legal-mind-behind-arizonas-immigration-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 20:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Sorensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Formerly a lawyer in John Ashcroft’s Justice Department, Krish Kobach has spent the last decade laying the legal framework for stricter immigration laws at the state and local level. He helped craft Arizona’s SB1070, which the Supreme Court partially blocked on Monday, and other legislation like it that’s taking root across the U.S. On Tuesday, TIME spoke with Kobach, now Kansas’ Secretary of State, about the implications of the High Court’s ruling. This interview has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. TIME: There seems to be some dispute&#8211;was the Supreme Court ruling a victory for proponents of tougher illegal immigration laws? Kobach: It was a qualified victory. It wasn’t a complete victory, which would have been something like the [Justice Antonin] Scalia [dissenting] opinion upholding every portion of the Arizona law, but it was a qualified victory nonetheless. The most important provision was section 2(b), the arrest provision that the court upheld, and the provisions that the court struck down were relatively minor. Why is status-check the core of these laws? The arrest provision will come into play thousands of times every day in the state of Arizona, whenever there’s a traffic citation being issued or a crime being investigated. But the employee provision making it a state violation of law to seek employment illegally, that would only come into play once or twice a year if some county decides to launch an investigation into a particular employer. The one that really does the heavy lifting is the arrest provision, which the Court upheld. Reading the opinion, Kennedy seemed to be saying that status-check was left alone because it simply offered federal officials more information without imposing unilateral state punishment&#8211;which is what the court blocked in the other three measures. If a state can&#8217;t impose its own punishments, isn&#8217;t that a crucial loss? (PHOTOS: Being Latino in Arizona) You’re right, the provisions that were struck down were two substantive crimes that the state might have otherwise prosecuted: illegally seeking work and the crime of not carrying the documents that<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=73068&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Evangelicals Will Vote for a Mormon Candidate, Says Richard Land</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/04/11/evangelicals-will-vote-for-a-mormon-candidate-says-richard-land/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Scherer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don’t believe what the national media tells you, says Dr. Richard Land, a leader with the Southern Baptist Convention, Mitt Romney doesn’t need to worry about his Mormon faith being a problem for evangelical voters at the voting booth. “The fact that we don’t believe that Mormonism is a Christian faith doesn’t mean we would not vote for someone who is Mormon, if they are pro-life,” Land told TIME in an interview on Tuesday. “Romney’s biggest problem with evangelicals has been that he hasn’t been Mormon enough. If he had always held his positions on abortion on marriage that his faith holds, there would be far fewer doubts about him.” Nonetheless, Land said that he expects the national news media to try to make an issue of Romney’s faith in the coming months, in an effort to damage the Republican candidate’s chances. “I predict that within a week of Romney being nominated, the news media will start running specials,” he said. And they are going to trot out all of the, how shall I put it, rather exotic beliefs of Mormonism in the hopes that it will scare independents into voting Democratic.” Land is the president of the Ethics &#38; Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Commission, a group that represents about 45,000 churches in the United States with more than 16 million members. An outspoken opponent of abortion and gay marriage, Land does not make endorsements, though he has been a vocal proponent of conservative causes in the past. He said that much of the national discussion about the relationship between Mormons and evangelicals misses the point. “Most evangelicals know what Mormons believe,” he said. “Their pastors have taught them in order to inoculate them against the missionaries going door to door. You understand that Mormons and evangelicals are in competition.” Through much of the mountain west, in states like Nevada, Idaho, Colorado, Montana, Utah and Wyoming, Mormons and Baptists comprise the two largest faiths. But Land said that this competition will not prevent evangelicals from putting aside<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=69378&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>10 Questions with Nikki Haley</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/04/05/10-questions-with-nikki-haley/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TIME Video</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TIME talks to South Carolina&#8217;s governor about the role of government, the Occupy movement and Romney&#8217;s challenges with women.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=68935&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Afghanistan: A Bleak Report from the Front</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/04/02/afghanistan-a-bleak-report-from-the-front/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 13:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marine General John Allen, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, was here in Washington two weeks ago saying the U.S. and the Afghan government are making progress in their decade-long battle with the Taliban. “We remain on track to ensure that Afghanistan will no longer be a safe haven for al-Qaida and will no longer be terrorized by the Taliban,” he said. “Our troops know the difference that they’re making every day, and the enemy feels that difference every day.” Now comes a decidedly contrary point of view. It’s from Douglas A. Wissing, author of the just-published Funding the Enemy: How U.S. Taxpayers Bankroll the Taliban. After spending time with U.S. troops in Afghanistan, he’s come to the conclusion that the U.S.-led effort there is flagging, if not already doomed.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=68682&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Prosecutor Preet Bharara in His Own Words: Battling &#8216;a Creeping Culture of Corruption&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/02/06/prosecutor-preet-bharara-in-his-own-words-battling-a-creeping-culture-of-corruption/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:49:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo Calabresi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For this week&#8217;s cover story, Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York who has been making high-profile busts on Wall Street, gave TIME a rare and extensive on-the-record interview at his Manhattan offices on January 24.  An edited version of that conversation follows. When you arrived in this office in August 2009 and were looking at areas to prosecute, how did you decide to devote resources to Wall Street? Prosecutors like me are responsive to bad things that are happening on Wall Street in the same way that a prosecutor would be responsive to a spate of violence happening in a neighborhood. You would bring resources to bear and try to be creative and aggressive in how you go after it and protect public safety. And what did you see in the insider trading cases? Between the burgeoning evidence of insider trading that we saw&#8230; in places on Wall Street and in Albany and everywhere else, it became clear to me and to the team that there was a creeping culture of corruption in our politics and also in Wall Street and in business generally, which is evidenced by the level of misconduct that we have found. We have brought 63 insider trading cases against individuals, convicted 56 of them, and at various junctures I have said because it&#8217;s true we still have a ways to go. Insider trading to us and to me is a clear violation of what the rules of the road are and are an affront to anyone who believes in the rule of law and anybody who believes in fairness of the markets. Significant officials at publicly traded companies are casually and cavalierly engaged in insider trading and there’s all sorts of other bad activity that they might be engaging in as well. The kinds of insider trading cases that we have brought in recent times have not been the kind of classic cases that people read about from the old days where you have got the grandmother [taking] an<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=65341&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A: George Romney Biographer Dan Angel</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/01/27/qa-george-romney-biographer-dan-angel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1964, Dan Angel became a participant observer of Michigan Governor George Romney&#8217;s re-election campaign. He served as Lenore Romney&#8217;s escort and drove the governor&#8217;s press vehicle in order to gather research for a Ph.D dissertation at Purdue University on Romney&#8217;s bid. He was a frequent guest at the Romney residence and conducted six extensive interviews with the governor. He published his book, Romney, A Political Biography, in 1967, the year before Romney&#8217;s ill fated-presidential bid. Before pursuing his career as a college administrator, Angel served three terms in the Michigan legislature as a Republican representative of the 49th district. He is now president of Golden Gate University in San Francisco, California. In an interview with TIME, Angel reflected on his relationship with Romney and what Mitt might have learned from his father&#8217;s career. How have George Romney’s setbacks in his 1968 GOP campaign influenced Mitt&#8217;s outlook? I was with George Romney when he made the now infamous “I was brainwashed” statement on the Lou Gordon Show in Detroit. During the program there was a hardly a reaction, but it was picked up by the press and in two to three days it took off like a rocket. That one comment knocked him out of a strong position in the presidential primary and completely out of the presidential field. He later referred to that moment as being “Like a mini- skirt&#8230; short and revealing.” There were lessons learned from that one thing. The takeaway for Mitt was be aware that any one word or phrase can seal your fate. Especially when you are the frontrunner, you don’t want to say anything foolish. It was a lesson the whole family learned. Consequently, there had been a measured caution in Mitt’s campaign based on his dad’s experience. That caution light was extinguished in South Carolina. What else did Mitt learn from his father? Mitt grew up in a household with a family interest in national leadership and issues.World issues were always being discussed. You can’t grow up with a role model who<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=64529&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Inside Obama&#8217;s World: The President talks to TIME About the Changing Nature of American Power</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/01/19/inside-obamas-world-the-president-talks-to-time-about-the-changing-nature-of-american-power/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fareed Zakaria</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fareed Zakaria: When we talked when you were campaigning for the presidency, I asked you which Administration&#8217;s foreign policy you admired. And you said that you looked at George H.W. Bush&#8217;s diplomacy, and I took that to mean the pragmatism, the sense of limits, good diplomacy, as you looked upon it favorably. Now that you are President, how has your thinking evolved? President Obama: It is true that I&#8217;ve been complimentary of George H.W. Bush&#8217;s foreign policy, and I continue to believe that he managed a very difficult period very effectively. Now that I&#8217;ve been in office for three years, I think that I&#8217;m always cautious about comparing what we&#8217;ve done to what others have done, just because each period is unique. Each set of challenges is unique. But what I can say is that I made a commitment to change the trajectory of American foreign policy in a way that would end the war in Iraq, refocus on defeating our primary enemy, al-Qaeda, strengthen our alliances and our leadership in multilateral fora and restore American leadership in the world. And I think we have accomplished those principal goals. We still have a lot of work to do, but if you look at the pivot from where we were in 2008 to where we are today, the Iraq war is over, we refocused attention on al-Qaeda, and they are badly wounded. They&#8217;re not eliminated, but the defeat not just of [Osama] bin Laden, but most of the top leadership, the tightening noose around their safe havens, the incapacity for them to finance themselves, they are much less capable than they were back in 2008. Our alliances with NATO, Japan, South Korea, our close military cooperation with countries like Israel have never been stronger. Our participation in multilateral organizations has been extremely effective. In the United Nations, not only do we have a voice, but we have been able to shape an agenda. And in the fastest-growing regions of the world in emerging markets in the Asia Pacific region, just to<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=63865&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>President Obama: Romney Foreign Policy Attacks Will Wither in &#8216;Serious Debate&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/01/18/president-obama-romney-foreign-policy-attacks-will-wither-in-serious-debate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Scherer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama dismissed Republican rival Mitt Romney’s critiques of his foreign policy credentials Wednesday in an exclusive TIME interview, saying the GOP front runner’s attacks are little more than primary posturing that will wither under the glare of “a serious debate.” &#8220;I think Mr. Romney and the rest of the Republican field are going to be playing to their base until the primary season is over,&#8221; Obama told TIME&#8217;s Fareed Zakaria during a White House interview that will appear in the next issue of TIME. &#8220;Overall, I think it&#8217;s going to be pretty hard to argue that we have not executed a strategy over the last three years that has put America in a stronger position than it was than when I came into office.&#8221; (MORE: See Swampland&#8217;s coverage of the 2012 election.) In what sometimes sounded like a dry run of the Obama re-election campaign’s foreign policy themes, the President drew sharp contrasts between himself and GOP leaders, past and present. He spoke with pride of accomplishing what he called a “pivot” from the policies of George W. Bush. This included ending the Iraq War, increasing pressure on al-Qaeda, rebuilding international alliances and refocusing America’s foreign policy goals. “It’s an American leadership that recognizes the rise of countries like China, India and Brazil,” Obama said of his own policies. “It’s a U.S. leadership that recognizes our limits in terms of resources and capacity. And yet, what I think we’ve been able to establish is a clear belief among other nations that the United States continues to be the one indispensible nation in tackling major international problems.” Obama also blamed Republicans in Congress for threatening to weaken the U.S.’s international position by failing to agree to domestic policies that the White House has been advocating over the past year. “Our whole foreign policy has to be anchored in economic strength here at home,” Obama said. “And if we are not strong, stable, growing, making stuff, training our work force so that it’s the most skilled in the world, maintaining our<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=63795&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A: Ron Paul, Iowa&#8217;s Third-Place Finisher</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/01/04/qa-ron-paul-iowas-third-place-finisher/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You said in an interview on Monday that you didn&#8217;t really see yourself in the Oval Office. Do you truly not see yourself there? If anybody&#8217;s honest with themselves, nobody knows who&#8217;s going to get anywhere. People sometimes brag about it. Weeks ago, Gingrich was saying &#8216;I&#8217;m going to win Iowa.&#8217; Today he says &#8216;I&#8217;m not going to win Iowa.&#8217; So I don&#8217;t think anybody should make those bold predictions. But I feel good about it. I think we&#8217;re going to do very well, and if you continue to do very well, then you can win the whole election. So you didn&#8217;t mean to indicate that you were less likely to make it than other candidates? No. I think that headline grossly distorted what I said. They asked the question, &#8216;Are you running to be elected, or are you running for a cause?&#8217; Why do you have to have one or the other? I can run for a cause, but isn&#8217;t your cause promoted by winning the election? So they sort of dropped the first half off. I think the two go together. I always run for a cause when I run for Congress. And I think sticking to your guns and being known for certain principles, that&#8217;s what we should do. People run to get elected only and they don&#8217;t have much of a cause or belief or conviction, but you don&#8217;t have to have one or the other. Would you say spreading your message is as important as winning? I can&#8217;t possibly separate the two, because we&#8217;re a couple hours before a vote. I see them right together, and a person like myself&#8211;I&#8217;ve had elections which I didn&#8217;t win, but I always kept working on that message no matter what. The more elections I win, the more support I get for the message. It shows that the number of people that support the issues is growing. That&#8217;s where we feel real good about it, when we look at the rallies and the students coming out. That to me<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=62586&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A: Kent Sorenson, the Iowa Senator Who Just Jumped Ship from Bachmann to Paul</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2011/12/29/qa-kent-sorenson-the-iowa-senator-who-just-jumped-ship-from-bachmann-to-paul/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 05:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday afternoon, state senator Kent Sorenson appeared with Michele Bachmann as the chair of her Iowa campaign. On Wednesday evening, Sorenson was stepping onto the stage at a veterans' rally to endorse Ron Paul, switching alliances less than a week before the first-in-the-nation caucuses.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=62033&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On the Bus with Romney: Bain, Empathy and Obama</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2011/12/22/catching-up-with-romney/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Sorensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of Mitt Romney&#8217;s challenges in running for President, both in 2008 and this cycle, is that he&#8217;s not exactly the most relatable guy. He&#8217;s fabulously wealthy, belongs to a religion that less than 2% of Americans share and is essentially selling himself as a technocratic captain of industry, not a share-your-beer-and-your-pain regular guy. As part of his ongoing media thaw, Mitt Romney talked to TIME&#8217;s Mark Halperin yesterday in New Hampshire. The interview offered a glimpse into how Romney is seeking to mitigate that personality gap as he stays singularly focused on making a general election argument against Obama. When asked how he felt about employees who were laid off at companies taken over by his private equity firm Bain Capital, Romney invoked his time as a bishop in Boston&#8217;s LDS community&#8211;a chapter of his life he&#8217;s largely avoided talking about until recent weeks. &#8220;I have experienced first hand the change in people’s lives as they lose employment,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I understand that in [a] way, I think, a lot of people in my circumstances do not understand it because I’ve served as a pastor in my church and worked with people who are out of work. I know the huge human cost that’s associated with an enterprise going out of business.&#8221; While his standard line on Obama has been that the President is essentially a good guy out of his depth, Romney didn&#8217;t shy away from casting the President as a political bully. &#8220;I know the President will try and do everything that he can to try and kill our nominee; to brutalize them, to distort their life and their record,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But what he can’t hide, no matter all the, despite all the money that he’ll amass, he can’t hide his record and the fact that he’s been President at a time when Americans have suffered and he hasn’t turned this economy around.&#8221; With less than two weeks before the first primary ballots are cast, the degree to which Romney remains focused on Obama and the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=61807&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A: Bill Clinton&#8217;s Vision for &#8216;A Smart Government and a Strong Economy&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2011/11/09/qa-bill-clintons-vision-for-a-smart-government-and-a-strong-economy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Stengel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States, spoke with TIME’s Rick Stengel about his new book, Back to Work, and how to fix the economy. Excerpts from that conversation follow. Why did you write this book? I thought maybe it would be helpful just to have both an explanation of what’s happened over the last 30 years and what I believe we need to do now. How did you write it? I just sat down and wrote it. I literally saved hundreds of newspaper articles, blog sites, you know, op-ed pieces, magazine articles, marks in books. I’ve been doing this, and I didn’t do it with any intent to write a book. I just kind of collected all this stuff because it helped me to understand what was going on. (PHOTOS: Bill Clinton&#8217;s Last Days in the White House) So what has happened to the economy and the U.S. over the past 30 years? First of all, we face more and more intense competition from around the world, and at the same time we have adopted—­except in the eight years I served and the first two years President Obama was ­serving—this anti­government philosophy, which has mostly, as I point out, been an antitax and an anti­regulation philosophy, so that we have dramatically increased the national debt and our reliance on other countries to fund it. Now we are facing the retirement of the baby boomers and once again a dramatic increase in health care cost. So we have to figure out a way to put the country in the future business. We have to get ahold of the long-term debt problem, and we have to revitalize the private sector. And you can’t do it with an anti­government strategy. You have to have a smart government and a strong economy. That’s basically the argument of the book. (VIDEO: Bill Clinton&#8217;s Economic Advice) What is it that Democrats don’t understand about how to make the economy work again, and what is it that Republicans don’t understand? Republicans believe that if<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=59330&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A: Hillary Clinton on Libya, China, the Middle East and Barack Obama</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2011/10/27/qa-hillary-clinton-on-libya-china-the-middle-east-and-barack-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Stengel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TIME Managing Editor Richard Stengel accompanied Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on her recent trip to Libya, Oman, Afghanistan and Pakistan. On Oct. 19, in the course of reporting for TIME&#8217;s cover story, which is now available online to subscribers, he conducted a wide-ranging interview with her, discussing among other things, the Middle East, China and American exceptionalism. A transcript of most of that conversation follows. Well, thank you so much for this. Let&#8217;s start with the trip. Yes. So I thought your remarks in Libya were very upbeat, very optimistic. Is what we did in Libya, is that a model for U.S. engagement going into the future? Well, let me just take a step back and put Libya into a context that I think answers the question. Part of my mission has been to make it clear that American leadership was back. What I found when I became Secretary of State was a lot of doubts and a lot of concerns and fears from friends, allies, around the world. And so part of what I have tried to do as Secretary of State is to reassert American leadership, but to recognize that in 21st century terms we have to lead differently than the way we historically have done. (COVER STORY: Hillary Clinton and the Rise of Smart Power) And it might seem a little bit unusual at first to understand that my goal is to assert our leadership in the most values-centered way, using the new tools and techniques available for diplomacy and development, so-called smart power, to build more durable coalitions and networks of which we are &#8212; into which we are imbedded. And it is one of my goals that we will have, to a significant extent, changed the way we do business and more smartly align our leadership needs today with the way that we assert our power. So that means going to Asia first because that&#8217;s the land of opportunity, not just the land of threats. And obviously, the previous nearly a decade was focused<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=58592&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A: Education Secretary Arne Duncan Talks State Aid and No Child Left Behind</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2011/10/21/qa-education-secretary-arne-duncan-on-state-aid-teaching-jobs-and-no-child-left-behind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kayla Webley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Senate voted down a piece of President Obama&#8217;s jobs bill Thursday night that would have provided $35 billion in aid to states to prevent government layoffs and increase hiring. The Department of Education says the measure could save or create nearly 400,000 teaching jobs, but so far it has failed to advance in the Senate both as part of a larger stimulus package last week and in Thursday&#8217;s 50-50 standalone vote. TIME talked to Education Secretary Arne Duncan before the vote about the its implications and the current debate over rewriting No Child Left Behind. I understand you&#8217;re on the road right now, selling this part of the plan? I&#8217;m out traveling the country and everywhere I go there&#8217;s just tremendous need. Folks are hurting out here. I was in Milwaukee recently and they&#8217;ve gone there from 100 arts educators across the city&#8217;s elementary schools to 11, so a 90% reduction in arts teachers. I was in Pittsburgh recently and there they are contemplating eliminating all after school programs and all extracurriculars. Nobody wants to do these things —we know it&#8217;s terrible for children, terrible for education, terrible for the country—but that&#8217;s the situation they&#8217;re in. If state aid can&#8217;t get through the Senate, how big of a failure is that? I think we can all agree we have to educate our way to a better economy — that&#8217;s the only way we&#8217;re going to do it. So we&#8217;re hurting our country long-term at the same time. If it&#8217;s bad for children, if it&#8217;s bad for our countries economic future — we&#8217;re cutting off our nose despite our face here. The stakes here are high. Students are working hard, teachers are going above and beyond the call — no one&#8217;s making excuses, they just need a little help. We don&#8217;t want to see class size skyrocket. We don&#8217;t want to see arts and after-school and extracurriculars being eliminated. None of this stuff is going to help move the country in the right direction. So, what&#8217;s the next step? I&#8217;m<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=58346&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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