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	<title>Swampland &#187; Michael Scherer</title>
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		<title>Taiwanese Press Scoops TMZ, Gets Video (Animation) Of Tiger Woods Crash</title>
		<link>http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/12/01/taiwanese-press-scoops-tmz-gets-video-animation-of-tiger-woods-crash/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:12:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Scherer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So good.

(via The Awl/Ben Smith)
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Five Things The President Will Say Tonight About Afghanistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:43:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Scherer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[White House officials just briefed reporters on President Obama's new strategy for Afghanistan. Here is the top-line takeaway:
1. He plans to increase troop strength in Afghanistan by 30,000 Americans, making the total U.S. troop count 98,000. These forces will be in place by the summer of 2010. A senior administration calls the addition of new [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.blogs.time.com&blog=5284847&post=19003&subd=timeswampland&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Through The 2008 Campaign Looking Glass--John McCain on Medicare Cuts, Now And Then</title>
		<link>http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/12/01/through-the-2008-campaign-looking-glass-john-mccain-on-medicare-cuts-now-and-then/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Scherer</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://swampland.blogs.time.com/?p=18999</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One can be forgiven for the double take. Back during the 2008 campaign, Barack Obama was the one accusing John McCain of wanting to cut Medicare benefits for seniors--a claim that independent fact checkers called "false." (McCain had proposed vaguely defined cost savings in Medicare, not benefit cuts.) Now everything is all reversed and upside [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.blogs.time.com&blog=5284847&post=18999&subd=timeswampland&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Piling On Desirée Rogers--Is The Social Secretary To Blame For Two Ticketless Boobs At The White House?</title>
		<link>http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/11/30/piling-on-desiree-rogers-is-the-social-secretary-to-blame-for-two-ticketless-boobs-at-the-white-house/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/11/30/piling-on-desiree-rogers-is-the-social-secretary-to-blame-for-two-ticketless-boobs-at-the-white-house/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Scherer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There is an unwritten rule in Washington: If you want to last, don't stand out. Those who do—think Tom DeLay with his cigars, Jack Abramoff with his restaurant—tend to get clipped before too long. Some call it the “tall poppy syndrome,” probably owing to an anecdote, recorded by Aristotle, of Periander's advice to Thrasybulus: “Always [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.blogs.time.com&blog=5284847&post=18958&subd=timeswampland&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>48</slash:comments>
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		<title>The New Afghan Strategy Roll Out Begins</title>
		<link>http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/11/30/the-new-afghan-strategy-roll-out-begins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Scherer</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://swampland.blogs.time.com/?p=18922</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A little before 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, a reporter for Scripps Howard, who had drawn weekend pool duty, sent his colleagues in the White House press corps a note: "WH press has no details as to how POTUS spent the day, except to say that he spent it at the White House." With that, a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.blogs.time.com&blog=5284847&post=18922&subd=timeswampland&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Barack Obama: First Pacific President? Not exactly.</title>
		<link>http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/11/14/barack-obama-first-pacific-president-not-exactly/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/11/14/barack-obama-first-pacific-president-not-exactly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Scherer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[barack obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pacific president]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Singapore
This phrase, "first Pacific president," is everywhere here among President Obama's senior staff. In Tokyo yesterday, Obama used it himself:
As America's first Pacific President, I promise you that this Pacific nation will strengthen and sustain our leadership in this vitally important part of the world.
It is another feather, the White House seems to suggest, in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.blogs.time.com&blog=5284847&post=18437&subd=timeswampland&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>42</slash:comments>
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		<title>Asia trip? What Asia trip? Obama&#039;s Spokesman Parries Afghanistan Questions In The Air</title>
		<link>http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/11/12/asia-trip-what-asia-trip-obama%e2%80%99s-spokesman-parries-afghanistan-questions-in-the-air/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Scherer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska
In an early sign of how President Obama's trip to Asia will likely go, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs came back to the press cabin on Air Force One Thursday to a torrent of questions that were not about the president's trip to Asia. “Can we start with  Afghanistan, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.blogs.time.com&blog=5284847&post=18344&subd=timeswampland&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>30</slash:comments>
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		<title>U.S. And China Still Jockey Over Obama&#039;s Speaking Plans</title>
		<link>http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/11/12/u-s-and-china-still-jockey-over-obamas-speaking-plans/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/11/12/u-s-and-china-still-jockey-over-obamas-speaking-plans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Scherer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[barack obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As Obama plans to depart for Alaska, the first leg of his week-long, four-nation trip to Asia, U.S. and Chinese officials are still negotiating the terms of Obama's address to Chinese youth in Shanghai, reports TIME's Beijing Correspondent Austin Ramzy. (Stateside, White House officials have so far been vague about the arranged speaking conditions.)
Ramzy files [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.blogs.time.com&blog=5284847&post=18327&subd=timeswampland&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>When A Haircut Is More Than A Haircut</title>
		<link>http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/11/10/when-a-haircut-is-more-than-a-haircut/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/11/10/when-a-haircut-is-more-than-a-haircut/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Scherer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://swampland.blogs.time.com/?p=18277</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Politico's Ben Smith has, alas, confessed, more or less, that the Obama Campaign was his source of the John Edwards $400 haircut scoop. Back in March of 2007, I wrote a story for Salon.com about the role of opposition research in shaping the primary news cycle, which I termed the "Matt Drudge Primary." At the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.blogs.time.com&blog=5284847&post=18277&subd=timeswampland&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>40</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Military Death Penalty: The President Must Approve</title>
		<link>http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/11/10/the-military-death-penalty-the-president-must-approve/</link>
		<comments>http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/11/10/the-military-death-penalty-the-president-must-approve/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:32:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Scherer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fort hood]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It seems clear that, barring unforeseen factors, Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the suspect in the Fort Hood shootings, will be tried in the military court system. He is a military officer accused of killing and wounding other members of the military on a military base. If he is tried for capital murder, one of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.blogs.time.com&blog=5284847&post=18264&subd=timeswampland&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>45</slash:comments>
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