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	<title>Comments on: How Barack Obama Will Change the World</title>
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		<title>By: Jesus	Ross</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jesus	Ross</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:23:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Barack Obama is the best democrat president in my opinion. he makes the best judgment and foreign policies..         ~</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Barack Obama is the best democrat president in my opinion. he makes the best judgment and foreign policies..         ~</p>
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		<title>By: Depressiongirl</title>
		<link>http://informedvote.ca/2009/03/07/how-barack-obama-will-change-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-4684</link>
		<dc:creator>Depressiongirl</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:56:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>i believe that Barack Obama is the president that the                             US needs in these hard times. I do not like the local and foreign policy of any Rebublican.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i believe that Barack Obama is the president that the                             US needs in these hard times. I do not like the local and foreign policy of any Rebublican.</p>
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		<title>By: MelatoninFaq</title>
		<link>http://informedvote.ca/2009/03/07/how-barack-obama-will-change-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-4091</link>
		<dc:creator>MelatoninFaq</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Barack Obama for me is the most charismatic president to be ever elected. He also makes great decisions, for example in the ecomomic stimulus package to counter the effects of recession.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Barack Obama for me is the most charismatic president to be ever elected. He also makes great decisions, for example in the ecomomic stimulus package to counter the effects of recession.</p>
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		<title>By: Fraser Nelund</title>
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		<dc:creator>Fraser Nelund</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks Dan for clearing that up.</description>
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		<title>By: Daniel Levine</title>
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		<dc:creator>Daniel Levine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Fraser, I think it&#039;s quite fair to say that the only mirror to this writer&#039;s optimism is an inverse reflection of your overwhelming mix of cynicism and pessimism. 

With regards to your comment on unbiased reporting, if I or anyone involved in this site has misspoke in the past I think I can clear that up. We are not naive enough to believe the individual reporting or ideas in the blog posts you are reading will be unbiased, nor do we always intend it to be. What we claim is (and if it has been unclear in the past then here is our true intention) to be unbiased in our editorial process, being that we want to provide a forum where all political ideologies can be discussed and debated so as to inform our readers and help them make more informed decisions. We have no agenda or interests here other than to help keep Canadians (and ourselves) informed.

Thx for your comment, discussion like this is exactly why we started this site.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fraser, I think it&#8217;s quite fair to say that the only mirror to this writer&#8217;s optimism is an inverse reflection of your overwhelming mix of cynicism and pessimism. </p>
<p>With regards to your comment on unbiased reporting, if I or anyone involved in this site has misspoke in the past I think I can clear that up. We are not naive enough to believe the individual reporting or ideas in the blog posts you are reading will be unbiased, nor do we always intend it to be. What we claim is (and if it has been unclear in the past then here is our true intention) to be unbiased in our editorial process, being that we want to provide a forum where all political ideologies can be discussed and debated so as to inform our readers and help them make more informed decisions. We have no agenda or interests here other than to help keep Canadians (and ourselves) informed.</p>
<p>Thx for your comment, discussion like this is exactly why we started this site.</p>
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		<title>By: Fraser Nelund</title>
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		<dc:creator>Fraser Nelund</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well it&#039;s all well and good that you won&#039;t be hiding behind the internet.  But let&#039;s draw an accurate comparison that may burst your (admittedly only slightly) optimistic bubble.  Bloggers&#039; are to internet personae as are big business is to goverment figures.  Money got Barack Obama the nomination.  Money won the election.  Empty words about hope and change aren&#039;t new in politics, nor is superb oration, or even talk about transcending partisan lines.  In fact nothing is new.  Ideology won&#039;t ever take a backseat to compromise and pragmatism as long as ideology serves as a the cover of darkness beneath which lurk the facts of capitalist &quot;democracy&quot;. 

If you have the money you make the rules.  All major political parties demonstrate this truth.  The lack of true dialogue in politics demonstrates this truth.  We debate bailouts without considering the fact that capitalism has failed to do anything but serve as an excuse for modern day feudalism.  There is no political spectrum... parties all use democracy as a rallying cry whilst ignoring the fact that capitalism and democracy are incompatible bedmates.  

Nevermind that people days from death can vote on the future of a country whilst people with an average of over sixty years ahead of them to live with the choices made have no say.   Nevermind that Capitalism suffers from the same criticisms as Communism... ie. it works brilliantly as long as no one is corrupt.  We don&#039;t even need to look at the seperate issues that these concepts fail to address.  We have the colossal current cluster(edit) of world affairs to demonstrate to us that Capitalism and Democracy don&#039;t mix.  

Now a new generation is being suckered into believing the old lies by a popular public figure and I am supposed to rejoice?  You may be hanging your legs over the side but you&#039;re still on the bandwagon, friend.  Your optimism is a lovely mirror to this site&#039;s claim to unbiased reporting.  We can not ever be unbiased and the current system can not ever serve the people.

And let me introduce myself.  I am not going to hide behind the internet, but more importantly I won&#039;t shut my eyes (or my mouth) when something ugly appears.  My name is Fraser.  In my experience people who blindly and ignorantly support the status quo tend to think that the best argument for their side is a swinging fist when standing face to face.  Frankly that argument that has worked for them historically.  So bandy words with me until we meet face to face.  See if real dialogue can bring about change.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well it&#8217;s all well and good that you won&#8217;t be hiding behind the internet.  But let&#8217;s draw an accurate comparison that may burst your (admittedly only slightly) optimistic bubble.  Bloggers&#8217; are to internet personae as are big business is to goverment figures.  Money got Barack Obama the nomination.  Money won the election.  Empty words about hope and change aren&#8217;t new in politics, nor is superb oration, or even talk about transcending partisan lines.  In fact nothing is new.  Ideology won&#8217;t ever take a backseat to compromise and pragmatism as long as ideology serves as a the cover of darkness beneath which lurk the facts of capitalist &#8220;democracy&#8221;. </p>
<p>If you have the money you make the rules.  All major political parties demonstrate this truth.  The lack of true dialogue in politics demonstrates this truth.  We debate bailouts without considering the fact that capitalism has failed to do anything but serve as an excuse for modern day feudalism.  There is no political spectrum&#8230; parties all use democracy as a rallying cry whilst ignoring the fact that capitalism and democracy are incompatible bedmates.  </p>
<p>Nevermind that people days from death can vote on the future of a country whilst people with an average of over sixty years ahead of them to live with the choices made have no say.   Nevermind that Capitalism suffers from the same criticisms as Communism&#8230; ie. it works brilliantly as long as no one is corrupt.  We don&#8217;t even need to look at the seperate issues that these concepts fail to address.  We have the colossal current cluster(edit) of world affairs to demonstrate to us that Capitalism and Democracy don&#8217;t mix.  </p>
<p>Now a new generation is being suckered into believing the old lies by a popular public figure and I am supposed to rejoice?  You may be hanging your legs over the side but you&#8217;re still on the bandwagon, friend.  Your optimism is a lovely mirror to this site&#8217;s claim to unbiased reporting.  We can not ever be unbiased and the current system can not ever serve the people.</p>
<p>And let me introduce myself.  I am not going to hide behind the internet, but more importantly I won&#8217;t shut my eyes (or my mouth) when something ugly appears.  My name is Fraser.  In my experience people who blindly and ignorantly support the status quo tend to think that the best argument for their side is a swinging fist when standing face to face.  Frankly that argument that has worked for them historically.  So bandy words with me until we meet face to face.  See if real dialogue can bring about change.</p>
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