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	<title>Comments on: Obama as Poker Player Cover Story in the National Journal</title>
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		<title>By: Jack Reynard</title>
		<link>http://pokerati.com/2009/12/05/obama-as-a-poker-player-cover-story-in-the-national-journal/comment-page-1/#comment-179385</link>
		<dc:creator>Jack Reynard</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 16:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great article, but, how would they explain the lame duck season?</description>
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		<title>By: pokervideoblogger</title>
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		<dc:creator>pokervideoblogger</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 07:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Poker players are playing for millions of dollars on TV. Sooner or later, Obama will need cash to pay for everything and guess where the IRS will start showing up in droves?&quot;

Poker after dark?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Poker players are playing for millions of dollars on TV. Sooner or later, Obama will need cash to pay for everything and guess where the IRS will start showing up in droves?&#8221;</p>
<p>Poker after dark?</p>
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		<title>By: badassmofo</title>
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		<dc:creator>badassmofo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wonder that such one exists ..&lt;a href=&quot;http://tinyurl.com/5706762089&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;HrHrHr.&lt;/a&gt;

just a bit help and i get pics unlocked</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wonder that such one exists ..<a href="http://tinyurl.com/5706762089" rel="nofollow">HrHrHr.</a></p>
<p>just a bit help and i get pics unlocked</p>
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		<title>By: BJ Nemeth</title>
		<link>http://pokerati.com/2009/12/05/obama-as-a-poker-player-cover-story-in-the-national-journal/comment-page-1/#comment-174712</link>
		<dc:creator>BJ Nemeth</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sangyfarha - I think the flaw in your logic is the fact that nobody in here was trying to make the argument that poker should be legalized. I think it&#039;s safe to assume that everyone in this thread is for the legalization of poker and bringing it into the mainstream, so the arguments devolved into something else -- the sophomoric political rants. (Which is why I avoided this thread until now.)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sangyfarha &#8211; I think the flaw in your logic is the fact that nobody in here was trying to make the argument that poker should be legalized. I think it&#8217;s safe to assume that everyone in this thread is for the legalization of poker and bringing it into the mainstream, so the arguments devolved into something else &#8212; the sophomoric political rants. (Which is why I avoided this thread until now.)</p>
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		<title>By: DanM</title>
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		<dc:creator>DanM</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>***a mish mash of sophmoric political rants I heard in Government 101 in college***

Thanks, Sang! I kinda consider myself a political sophomore ...</description>
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<p>Thanks, Sang! I kinda consider myself a political sophomore &#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Sangyfarha</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sangyfarha</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m going to insult a number of people here, but quite frankly I couldn&#039;t care less.  This thread only reinforces my belief that the vast majority of poker players and pundits(yes Dan I&#039;m knocking you as well) are ill equiped to deal with the issue of bringing poker FULLY into mainstream America.  And by that I mean legalizing the game whether it be online and/or within states.  Through 21 comments not one delivered any substantive discourse on any of the ideas presented in the article nor any issue pertinent to poker.  Rather it was a mish mash of sophmoric political rants I heard in Government 101 in college.  They were boring then and guess what...still boring now.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m going to insult a number of people here, but quite frankly I couldn&#8217;t care less.  This thread only reinforces my belief that the vast majority of poker players and pundits(yes Dan I&#8217;m knocking you as well) are ill equiped to deal with the issue of bringing poker FULLY into mainstream America.  And by that I mean legalizing the game whether it be online and/or within states.  Through 21 comments not one delivered any substantive discourse on any of the ideas presented in the article nor any issue pertinent to poker.  Rather it was a mish mash of sophmoric political rants I heard in Government 101 in college.  They were boring then and guess what&#8230;still boring now.</p>
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		<title>By: Brian G.</title>
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		<dc:creator>Brian G.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You rip Obama, they scream &quot;Bush!&quot;  Good luck on that working again in 2012.  

Poker players are playing for millions of dollars on TV.  Sooner or later, Obama will need cash to pay for everything and guess where the IRS will start showing up in droves?  The IRS loves making examples of famous people, see e.g. Wesley Snipes, the fat naked guy that won Survivor, Pete Rose, and so on.  I hope all of the people here that play for a living are keeping their books in order.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You rip Obama, they scream &#8220;Bush!&#8221;  Good luck on that working again in 2012.  </p>
<p>Poker players are playing for millions of dollars on TV.  Sooner or later, Obama will need cash to pay for everything and guess where the IRS will start showing up in droves?  The IRS loves making examples of famous people, see e.g. Wesley Snipes, the fat naked guy that won Survivor, Pete Rose, and so on.  I hope all of the people here that play for a living are keeping their books in order.</p>
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		<title>By: DanM</title>
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		<dc:creator>DanM</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:43:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ryan, decent answer ... on my home turf no less. Kudos. And at the same time -- though I&#039;m sure you realize this -- the reaction you baited me into shows one of the problems that any legitimate conservative ideas have these days ... which is that they are represented by a party that is lost, that is without leaders or direction, and therefore get dismissed whether fairly or not.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ryan, decent answer &#8230; on my home turf no less. Kudos. And at the same time &#8212; though I&#8217;m sure you realize this &#8212; the reaction you baited me into shows one of the problems that any legitimate conservative ideas have these days &#8230; which is that they are represented by a party that is lost, that is without leaders or direction, and therefore get dismissed whether fairly or not.</p>
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		<title>By: RyanD</title>
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		<dc:creator>RyanD</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Don&#039;t stereotype me. I have a passport, have been to a communist country, and will not move, because I love this country and all that it stands for, unlike &quot;the Democratic leadership&quot; you refer to. And do not over generalize this either. GWB was almost as a big a slimeball as this dingus. Reagan is merely the most recent, closest example to the limited government model the Founders of this nation established, but even he used czars, and passed amnesty bills for example.
This is not about the Bolshevik revolution, or what it stood for, but what communism is currently. Communism is a fantastic concept, but when implemented, it&#039;s a disaster due to simple human nature. At best it is a benevolent dictatorship, but in our case appears to be headed more towards a fascistic oligarchy. I don&#039;t think we currently are communist, merely &quot;building a framework&quot; for it.
We will probably never find a &quot;perfect&quot; conservative, just like other nations will probably never find the &quot;perfect&quot; communist leader. So let&#039;s shuffle up and deal.
By the way, Mr. President, I&#039;m all in...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Don&#8217;t stereotype me. I have a passport, have been to a communist country, and will not move, because I love this country and all that it stands for, unlike &#8220;the Democratic leadership&#8221; you refer to. And do not over generalize this either. GWB was almost as a big a slimeball as this dingus. Reagan is merely the most recent, closest example to the limited government model the Founders of this nation established, but even he used czars, and passed amnesty bills for example.<br />
This is not about the Bolshevik revolution, or what it stood for, but what communism is currently. Communism is a fantastic concept, but when implemented, it&#8217;s a disaster due to simple human nature. At best it is a benevolent dictatorship, but in our case appears to be headed more towards a fascistic oligarchy. I don&#8217;t think we currently are communist, merely &#8220;building a framework&#8221; for it.<br />
We will probably never find a &#8220;perfect&#8221; conservative, just like other nations will probably never find the &#8220;perfect&#8221; communist leader. So let&#8217;s shuffle up and deal.<br />
By the way, Mr. President, I&#8217;m all in&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Mean Gene</title>
		<link>http://pokerati.com/2009/12/05/obama-as-a-poker-player-cover-story-in-the-national-journal/comment-page-1/#comment-174685</link>
		<dc:creator>Mean Gene</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Uh, didn&#039;t Bush leave us with close to a ten-trillion dollar deficit? Running up much of that by giving huge tax breaks to the very wealthiest Americans while leaving those of us who &quot;actually work for a living&quot; holding the bag? It always amazes me to see how willing people are to support politicians who do the most damage to their own personal interests, and slam politicians who propose policies that would benefit them personally. Mind-boggling.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Uh, didn&#8217;t Bush leave us with close to a ten-trillion dollar deficit? Running up much of that by giving huge tax breaks to the very wealthiest Americans while leaving those of us who &#8220;actually work for a living&#8221; holding the bag? It always amazes me to see how willing people are to support politicians who do the most damage to their own personal interests, and slam politicians who propose policies that would benefit them personally. Mind-boggling.</p>
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		<title>By: Brian G.</title>
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		<dc:creator>Brian G.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;Brianâ€¦ some of us didnâ€™t fall for it. The change I can believe in is in my purse.&lt;/i&gt;

You must be on welfare then.  

If you actually work for a living, then sooner or later you will be paying for Mr. Obama&#039;s spending.  Funny how the poker community is so big into Obama simply because of online poker.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Brianâ€¦ some of us didnâ€™t fall for it. The change I can believe in is in my purse.</i></p>
<p>You must be on welfare then.  </p>
<p>If you actually work for a living, then sooner or later you will be paying for Mr. Obama&#8217;s spending.  Funny how the poker community is so big into Obama simply because of online poker.</p>
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		<title>By: DanM</title>
		<link>http://pokerati.com/2009/12/05/obama-as-a-poker-player-cover-story-in-the-national-journal/comment-page-1/#comment-174676</link>
		<dc:creator>DanM</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Funny, I find when I multitable and get tilty, that spreads to my action on the other tables, leading to a quicker bankroll collapse. 

It really would be amusing in a world-destruction sorta way if a superpowerful political leader went on Matusow-like tilt.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Funny, I find when I multitable and get tilty, that spreads to my action on the other tables, leading to a quicker bankroll collapse. </p>
<p>It really would be amusing in a world-destruction sorta way if a superpowerful political leader went on Matusow-like tilt.</p>
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		<title>By: Trisha Lynn</title>
		<link>http://pokerati.com/2009/12/05/obama-as-a-poker-player-cover-story-in-the-national-journal/comment-page-1/#comment-174675</link>
		<dc:creator>Trisha Lynn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>*curtsies to Michalski*

Looking at it again, I can see why Englund didn&#039;t clarify the stuffing out of the sentence because explaining online multi-tabling to an audience that really doesn&#039;t know or care about it isn&#039;t going to make his point.

However, when I was playing poker last night, the host of our home game said that when you multi-table, it&#039;s possible to be on tilt less because if you&#039;re running awesome at one table, it could offset a horrible run at another so your variance for the night might not be that bad.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>*curtsies to Michalski*</p>
<p>Looking at it again, I can see why Englund didn&#8217;t clarify the stuffing out of the sentence because explaining online multi-tabling to an audience that really doesn&#8217;t know or care about it isn&#8217;t going to make his point.</p>
<p>However, when I was playing poker last night, the host of our home game said that when you multi-table, it&#8217;s possible to be on tilt less because if you&#8217;re running awesome at one table, it could offset a horrible run at another so your variance for the night might not be that bad.</p>
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		<title>By: DanM</title>
		<link>http://pokerati.com/2009/12/05/obama-as-a-poker-player-cover-story-in-the-national-journal/comment-page-1/#comment-174674</link>
		<dc:creator>DanM</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>ok, re-read that line ... you are right, but i don&#039;t think it is a metaphorical deal-breaker. live multi-tabling at the WSOP is a statistically inconsequential rarity. 

online it is closer to what he describes. but that could actually support Englund&#039;s premise, not detract from it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ok, re-read that line &#8230; you are right, but i don&#8217;t think it is a metaphorical deal-breaker. live multi-tabling at the WSOP is a statistically inconsequential rarity. </p>
<p>online it is closer to what he describes. but that could actually support Englund&#8217;s premise, not detract from it.</p>
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		<title>By: DanM</title>
		<link>http://pokerati.com/2009/12/05/obama-as-a-poker-player-cover-story-in-the-national-journal/comment-page-1/#comment-174673</link>
		<dc:creator>DanM</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>ooh, i missed that line ... yeesh!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ooh, i missed that line &#8230; yeesh!</p>
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		<title>By: Trisha Lynn</title>
		<link>http://pokerati.com/2009/12/05/obama-as-a-poker-player-cover-story-in-the-national-journal/comment-page-1/#comment-174671</link>
		<dc:creator>Trisha Lynn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;And you donâ€™t find poker players involved in half a dozen or a dozen games at once, turning from table to table as the action unexpectedly heats up here, and then suddenly over there&quot;

Oh, so sad for a great article to be tripped up by this one line because it&#039;s a known fact that some online players multi-table and there&#039;s also proof that players at the WSOP were blinded off as they flitted between tournaments.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;And you donâ€™t find poker players involved in half a dozen or a dozen games at once, turning from table to table as the action unexpectedly heats up here, and then suddenly over there&#8221;</p>
<p>Oh, so sad for a great article to be tripped up by this one line because it&#8217;s a known fact that some online players multi-table and there&#8217;s also proof that players at the WSOP were blinded off as they flitted between tournaments.</p>
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		<title>By: DanM</title>
		<link>http://pokerati.com/2009/12/05/obama-as-a-poker-player-cover-story-in-the-national-journal/comment-page-1/#comment-174669</link>
		<dc:creator>DanM</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>LOL, and one of these days I will learn to answer the political baiting with a one-liner like I initially intended to.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>LOL, and one of these days I will learn to answer the political baiting with a one-liner like I initially intended to.</p>
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		<title>By: DanM</title>
		<link>http://pokerati.com/2009/12/05/obama-as-a-poker-player-cover-story-in-the-national-journal/comment-page-1/#comment-174668</link>
		<dc:creator>DanM</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Look, I&#039;m not gonna debate the politics in a way that forces me to be defending the Democratic leadership ... the change I&#039;m referring to isn&#039;t about finance and such (because there, the new boss really is pretty much the same as the old boss) ... it&#039;s about paradigms that don&#039;t even register to the ill-educated teabagger set ... you know, those dumbass folks who don&#039;t realize that Reagan created czars and GWB installed more new ones than any other president ... the ones that set a litmus test for what makes a money-worthy Republican (the GOP national party) and yet their own heralded leaders wouldn&#039;t even pass ... the ones that don&#039;t see the value to America of our leader bowing down to a foreign leader.  

Your use of the word &quot;communism&quot; shows you don&#039;t really understand what the Bolshevik revolution was all about, too. Do you really want to get in this debate? Because &quot;your people&quot; -- you know, the ones who were rallying around the concept of &quot;Country First&quot; but when push comes to shove are most upset about their personal bottom lines than anything else -- are definitely lacking anyone who can make the plausibly legitimate conservative arguments without surrounding themselves with idiots. I mean that with all due respect.  

BTW, have you ever been to a communist country? I have ... multiple times in fact. If you think we are even close ... well LOLOL. Would it seem rather communist if a government forced a group of underage (meaning they have no vote) citizens to inject a &quot;vaccine&quot; into their bodies? Because that&#039;s what uber-Republican Rick Perry did. The only non-Commie part is how his friends who make the vaccine got really rich on his &quot;executive decision&quot; (which means there was no congressional vote on the matter).

Cut your whiney, frightened, fear-mongered right-wing bullshit and just play the game. We&#039;ll see where the cards fall. I&#039;m in no way implying Obama is the messiah or the solution to anything. You are welcome to fold if you must. In fact, let me borrow a phrase from your people in referring to the USA: Love it or leave it!

But of course to do that you would have to get a passport ...

The crux of this article is that Obama is thoughtful and deliberate, like a lot of good poker players. He may or may not be making the wrong decisions, but the &quot;change&quot; I am happy to see is someone finally being thoughtful, not insta-reactive and falling into America&#039;s opponents traps one after the other.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Look, I&#8217;m not gonna debate the politics in a way that forces me to be defending the Democratic leadership &#8230; the change I&#8217;m referring to isn&#8217;t about finance and such (because there, the new boss really is pretty much the same as the old boss) &#8230; it&#8217;s about paradigms that don&#8217;t even register to the ill-educated teabagger set &#8230; you know, those dumbass folks who don&#8217;t realize that Reagan created czars and GWB installed more new ones than any other president &#8230; the ones that set a litmus test for what makes a money-worthy Republican (the GOP national party) and yet their own heralded leaders wouldn&#8217;t even pass &#8230; the ones that don&#8217;t see the value to America of our leader bowing down to a foreign leader.  </p>
<p>Your use of the word &#8220;communism&#8221; shows you don&#8217;t really understand what the Bolshevik revolution was all about, too. Do you really want to get in this debate? Because &#8220;your people&#8221; &#8212; you know, the ones who were rallying around the concept of &#8220;Country First&#8221; but when push comes to shove are most upset about their personal bottom lines than anything else &#8212; are definitely lacking anyone who can make the plausibly legitimate conservative arguments without surrounding themselves with idiots. I mean that with all due respect.  </p>
<p>BTW, have you ever been to a communist country? I have &#8230; multiple times in fact. If you think we are even close &#8230; well LOLOL. Would it seem rather communist if a government forced a group of underage (meaning they have no vote) citizens to inject a &#8220;vaccine&#8221; into their bodies? Because that&#8217;s what uber-Republican Rick Perry did. The only non-Commie part is how his friends who make the vaccine got really rich on his &#8220;executive decision&#8221; (which means there was no congressional vote on the matter).</p>
<p>Cut your whiney, frightened, fear-mongered right-wing bullshit and just play the game. We&#8217;ll see where the cards fall. I&#8217;m in no way implying Obama is the messiah or the solution to anything. You are welcome to fold if you must. In fact, let me borrow a phrase from your people in referring to the USA: Love it or leave it!</p>
<p>But of course to do that you would have to get a passport &#8230;</p>
<p>The crux of this article is that Obama is thoughtful and deliberate, like a lot of good poker players. He may or may not be making the wrong decisions, but the &#8220;change&#8221; I am happy to see is someone finally being thoughtful, not insta-reactive and falling into America&#8217;s opponents traps one after the other.</p>
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		<title>By: RyanD</title>
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		<dc:creator>RyanD</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In order to bluff, you first have to set up the bluff by having had a hand in the past. This guy has done nothing but bluff since he came on the scene. Yes, he pretends he&#039;s got quad Aces, but when you listen to his words, he&#039;s drawing to a Spade flush with hearts in his hand.
&quot;Refreshing change&quot;?!?! Refreshing how? He&#039;s done nothing but build the framework for communism, and started leveling taxes that will leave us with nothing but the &quot;change&quot; Alicia referred to. Stick to your 3rd sentence DanM, Less government, not more.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In order to bluff, you first have to set up the bluff by having had a hand in the past. This guy has done nothing but bluff since he came on the scene. Yes, he pretends he&#8217;s got quad Aces, but when you listen to his words, he&#8217;s drawing to a Spade flush with hearts in his hand.<br />
&#8220;Refreshing change&#8221;?!?! Refreshing how? He&#8217;s done nothing but build the framework for communism, and started leveling taxes that will leave us with nothing but the &#8220;change&#8221; Alicia referred to. Stick to your 3rd sentence DanM, Less government, not more.</p>
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		<title>By: Alicia</title>
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		<dc:creator>Alicia</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Brian...  some of us didn&#039;t fall for it.  The change I can believe in is in my purse.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Brian&#8230;  some of us didn&#8217;t fall for it.  The change I can believe in is in my purse.</p>
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