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<title>Obama&apos;s Candidacy and Racism</title>
<description><![CDATA[A <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/12/AR2008051203014.html">story</a> about Obama surrogates encountering raw racism has generated more than 3,300 comments from our readers, an unusually high number. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 07:42:48 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Clinton and the Dead Parrot</title>
<description><![CDATA[Dana Milbank <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/13/AR2008051302862.html">suggests</a> that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential prospects are as dead as that Norwegian blue parrot in the famous <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=4vuW6tQ0218">Monty Python bit</a>.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 09:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>No Rx for Detained Immigrants</title>
<description><![CDATA[Readers have strong opionions on a Post <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/specials/immigration/index.html">investigative series</a> that combines two hot-button political issues: immigration and the state of health care.]]></description>
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<category>Medical Care</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 10:25:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>The Limbaugh Factor</title>
<description><![CDATA[Readers express special interest in a story that asks if radio host Rush <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/07/AR2008050703932.html">Limbaugh's "Operation Chaos"</a> actually held down Obama's totals.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 09:35:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Time for Clinton To Quit?</title>
<description>There is unusual near unanimity among our readers.  Many of them seem to want Clinton to concede and go home.  </description>
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<category>Presidential Politics</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 09:20:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Politicians and Gasoline</title>
<description><![CDATA[Economic <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/04/AR2008050401795_pf.html">arguments</a>    mostly about the gasoline tax are fueling the comments of our readers today.]]></description>
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<category>Presidential Politics</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 09:35:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Readers Defend Women Bearing Arms</title>
<description><![CDATA[Army Pfc. Monica Brown was awarded a Silver Star for bravery in Afghanistan but was pulled from her unit because an Army  <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/30/AR2008043003415.html?hpid=topnews"> policy</a> says she shouldn't have been in that situation because she is a woman.
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<category>Afghanistan</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 09:18:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Does Obama Get It Wright?</title>
<description><![CDATA[Our Readers Who Comment are all over the map in their reaction to the Obama-Wright  <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/29/AR2008042903173.html">situation</a>.]]></description>
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<category>Obama</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:50:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Immigration Migration</title>
<description><![CDATA[The one topic that has consistently drawn more heated debate than the War in Iraq is <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/27/AR2008042702432.html?hpid=topnews"> illegal immigration</a>, and our Readers Who Comment are at it again today.]]></description>
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<category>Illegal Immigrants</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:30:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Blinders at Arlington Cemetery</title>
<description><![CDATA[Dana Milbank touched off a reader comment storm this morning in writing about Arlington Cemetery <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/23/AR2008042303244.html">blocking reporters</a> from close coverage of the funeral of a Marine officer killed in Iraq.]]></description>
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<category>Iraq</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:30:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>The Beat Goes On</title>
<description><![CDATA[Sen. Clinton's <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/22/AR2008042202959.html?hpid=topnews">victory</a> kept her candidacy alive, but her path to the nomination remains "extraordinarily treacherous."]]></description>
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<category>Obama</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:10:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Readers Confront Mortality</title>
<description><![CDATA[A study shows that for the first time since 1918 <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/21/AR2008042102406.html?hpid=topnews">life expectancy</a> is falling for a significant number of American women, especially in rural and low-income areas.]]></description>
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<category>Health</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:25:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Leave Your DNA and You Can Go</title>
<description><![CDATA[The outrage level seems to be high on a story reporting that the feds plan to collect <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/16/AR2008041602729.html?hpid=topnews">DNA samples</a> from citizens arrested in connection with any federal crime and from many immigrants detained by federal authorities.  Arrested, not convicted.]]></description>
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<category>Surveillance</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Readers Distrust Polls, Candidates</title>
<description><![CDATA[ A new <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/15/AR2008041503586.html?hpid=topnews">Washington Post - ABC News poll</a> today says that Sen. Barack Obama holds a 10-point lead over Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton when Democrats are asked whom they would prefer to see as the party's presidential nominee.]]></description>
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<link>http://blog.washingtonpost.com/dot.comments/2008/04/obama_leads_clinton.html</link>
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<category>Presidential Politics</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>The Bitterness Lingers</title>
<description><![CDATA[Sen. Barack Obama's Democratic opponent, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, and the presumptive Republican nominee, Sen. John McCain, seem to have joined the same <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/14/AR2008041403057.html?hpid=topnews">church choir</a> in finding fault with Obama's observation about bitterness.]]></description>
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<category>Obama</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:30:00 -0400</pubDate>
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