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		<title>Obama is a Citizen and eligible for the Presidency</title>
		<link>http://silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com/2010/06/18/obama-is-a-citizen-and-eligible-for-the-presidency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dawood Khan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Obama&#8217;s Mother was a US citizen, then it matters not one iota where Obama was born. Was his Mother not born in the US? What does the Constitution state? No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com&#038;blog=2384303&#038;post=7574&#038;subd=hereticdhammasangha&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Did You Vote For Obama</title>
		<link>http://silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com/2010/06/03/did-you-vote-for-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dawood Khan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Received this photo in an email.  Succinct, yeah? Tagged: Humor, Obama, Politics, President Obama, Texas, Vote for Obama, Voting<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com&#038;blog=2384303&#038;post=7489&#038;subd=hereticdhammasangha&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA</title>
		<link>http://silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com/2010/05/26/an-open-letter-to-president-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com/2010/05/26/an-open-letter-to-president-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 11:51:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dawood Khan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All who have ever written on government are unanimous, that among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.  ~ Edmund Burke Below is an open letter written by former Proctor &#38; Gamble VP Lou Pritchett to President Obama.  This letter was sent to the New York Times.  The NYT received it but never printed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com&#038;blog=2384303&#038;post=7457&#038;subd=hereticdhammasangha&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>H.L. Mencken</title>
		<link>http://silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com/2009/11/06/h-l-mencken/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dawood Khan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is any political campaign save a concerted effort to turn out a set of politicians who are admittedly bad and put in a set who are thought to be better. The former assumption, I believe is always sound; the latter is just as certainly false. For if experience teaches us anything at all it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com&#038;blog=2384303&#038;post=4849&#038;subd=hereticdhammasangha&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care, Socialism, Democracy and President Obama</title>
		<link>http://silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com/2009/09/17/socialism-and-democracy-and-president-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dawood Khan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Socialism refers to various theories of economic organization advocating public or direct worker ownership and administration of the means of production and allocation of resources, and a society characterized by equal access to resources for all individuals with an egalitarian method of compensation. In Marxist theory, socialism is a transitional phase between capitalism and communism [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com&#038;blog=2384303&#038;post=4428&#038;subd=hereticdhammasangha&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Out of Iraq By August 2010</title>
		<link>http://silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com/2009/02/26/out-of-iraq-by-august-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dawood Khan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama Favoring Mid-2010 Pullout In Iraq, Aides Say (New York Times, Feb. 25, 2009, Pg. 1) President Obama is nearing a decision that would order American combat forces out of Iraq by August 2010, senior administration officials said, as he seeks to finally end a war that has consumed and polarized the United States for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com&#038;blog=2384303&#038;post=3516&#038;subd=hereticdhammasangha&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Barack Obama photo op&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com/2008/03/29/barack-obama-photo-op/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 05:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dawood Khan</dc:creator>
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		<title>The capture of Saddam Hussein.</title>
		<link>http://silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com/2008/01/17/the-capture-of-saddam-hussein/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dawood Khan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saddam looking frazzled. It&#8217;s a pretty humorous photo. He certainly doesn&#8217;t look like the guy who would later appear in court attempting to bully the judges, prosecutors and the judiciary process as a whole. He no longer looks like the man who stood on a balcony of one of his many palaces and told the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com&#038;blog=2384303&#038;post=164&#038;subd=hereticdhammasangha&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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