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			<outline created="Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:37:04 GMT" pgfnum="13513" text="Two recent articles about President Obama. "></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:37:21 GMT" pgfnum="13514" text="One by Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/why-obamas-jobs-act-couldnt-suck-worse-20120409&quot;&gt;explains&lt;/a&gt; that &quot;Obama's JOBS act couldn't suck worse.&quot; It's a good piece, but it could and does suck worse. Taibbi, who wrote an excellent &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/Griftopia-Machines-Vampire-Breaking-America/dp/0385529953&quot;&gt;postmortem&lt;/a&gt; of the mortgage securities meltdown of 2008 hasn't yet pieced together the full dimension of the rush to entrepreneurialism. But it's good that he isn't snookered into believing, as so many are, that there's a difference between tech financiers and the ones who caused the meltdown. "></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:51:39 GMT" pgfnum="13524" text="&lt;img src=&quot;http://scripting.com/images/2012/04/10/mug.gif&quot; width=&quot;145&quot; height=&quot;136&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; style=&quot;float: right; padding-left: 15px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named mug.gif&quot;&gt;Where the previous meltdown caught financiers using our homes as chips in a Ponzi scheme, Taibbi hasn't yet figured out (apparently) that this time around they're gambling with the future of a generation of our best and brightest. When the bubble bursts it's going to leave a lot of young people with wrecked lives. It'll make a great book, but it would be even better if we could put the brakes on some of the euphoria before the bubble grows too big. Yeah lots of luck with that, I guess."></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:43:10 GMT" pgfnum="13516" text="So Obama is a bad man, a political product, like Nike or Apple. He wants to get re-elected, so he does what the big money people ask him to. But as a product, he makes an interesting case study."></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:43:43 GMT" pgfnum="13517" text="The other &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ghogb3HkCNOQHNcdvsEh7O02P89Q?docId=96a77f45a97d4380a9a2d36a4d0eb2ae&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; says he's going to use the Buffet Rule as a campaign issue. Good for him. We need to even out the taxes. Rich people don't pay their fair share. "></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:44:44 GMT" pgfnum="13518" text="To which the Republicans have an answer: Class Warfare! Class Warfare! "></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:45:09 GMT" pgfnum="13519" text="And if the President is smart, he'll smile and tell a Harry Truman story. "></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:45:26 GMT" pgfnum="13520" text="A man in a crowd at an election rally in 1948 yelled: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_%27em_Hell,_Harry!&quot;&gt;Give em hell Harry!&lt;/a&gt; "></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:07:28 GMT" pgfnum="13527" text="Then the President said something that has forever endeared him to the great &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/stories/2012/04/05/americanIndividualismIsAMy.html&quot;&gt;myth&lt;/a&gt; of American individualism. "></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:45:55 GMT" pgfnum="13521" text="&quot;I don't give them Hell. I just tell the truth about them and they think it's Hell.&quot;"></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:46:05 GMT" pgfnum="13522" text="The President could tell that story and use that line. "></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:57:08 GMT" pgfnum="13525" text="It would make people happy. :-)"></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:49:20 GMT" pgfnum="13523" text="PS: This &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/09/opinion/obama-and-the-budget.html&quot;&gt;letter-writer&lt;/a&gt; to the NYT had the same idea. "></outline>
			<outline created="Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:57:13 GMT" pgfnum="13526" text="PPS: Yesterday's acquisition of Instagram by Facebook for $1 billion adds a lot of dimension to the bubble."></outline>
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