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		<title>Framing and Obama</title>
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		<outline created="Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:46:43 GMT" ctSaves="8" flPreview="false" server="xmlrpc://cms.scripting2.com:5337/RPC2" storySerialNum="945" text="Framing and Obama" type="scripting2Post" url="http://scripting.com/stories/2011/04/13/framingAndObama.html" username="davewiner" versionClient="0.42" versionServer="0.42" whenLastSave="Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:06:52 GMT">
			<outline created="Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:41:38 GMT" pgfnum="6162" text="&lt;img src=&quot;http://scripting.com/images/2011/04/13/mirror.gif&quot; width=&quot;125&quot; height=&quot;181&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; hspace=&quot;15&quot; vspace=&quot;5&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named mirror.gif&quot;&gt;Just saw a brief &lt;a href=&quot;http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/13/obama-will-call-to-end-bush-era-tax-cuts-on-wealthy/&quot;&gt;announcement&lt;/a&gt; that President Obama will call for an end to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/images/dubyasComputer.jpg&quot;&gt;Bush&lt;/a&gt; tax cuts for people making over $250K per year. "></outline>
			<outline created="Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:42:07 GMT" pgfnum="6163" text="Not everyone will agree, of course, but I for one am very glad to hear this. We have to turn away from the awful philosophy that we can keep taking from the middle class and giving to the rich. It's wrong for so many reasons, and not smart. "></outline>
			<outline created="Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:42:57 GMT" pgfnum="6164" text="And this one idea makes me wonder if the President has been listening to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lakoff&quot;&gt;George Lakoff&lt;/a&gt;, and is starting to &lt;a href=&quot;http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/10/27_lakoff.shtml&quot;&gt;frame&lt;/a&gt; the discussion with the Republicans in the role of the spoiled child and the President as the strict father. "></outline>
			<outline created="Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:43:59 GMT" pgfnum="6165" text="The rich have gotten their way, over and over, and now it's time for them to let the middle class have something. Like a father with two children and one of them keeps throwing tantrums to get his or her way, as the other gets nothing. "></outline>
			<outline created="Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:45:01 GMT" pgfnum="6166" text="Unfortunately, in the US, the electorate is so unconscious that this kind of bullshit not only works, but is necessary. :-("></outline>
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