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	<title><![CDATA[Why Didn't the Obama Campaign Foresee McCain's  Troop Smear?]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/art-levine/how-will-obama-progressiv_b_115162.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p> Right now, the blogosphere is abuzz about John McCain's new ad <a href="http://www.anonymousliberal.com/2008/07/real-mccain.html">smearing Obama </a>for not visiting wounded troops in Germany. The McCain claim that Obama canceled because he couldn't bring reporters with him is utterly false, but the failure of the left and the Obama campaign to immediately and aggressively shoot down the growing Pentagon-fed narrative that Obama deliberately <a href="http://minx.cc/?post=269273"> "snubbed" </a>wounded troops has proved to be <a href="http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2008/07/26/shame-on-mccain-for-politicizing-landstuhl/">highly damaging</a>.</p>

<p>After news of the ad broke Saturday, the...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-08-03T05:12:00-04:00</date_published>
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