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	<title><![CDATA[The Politics of Hopelessness]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sirota/the-politics-of-hopelessn_b_82678.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<blockquote>"You were a corporate lawyer sitting on the board at Wal-Mart." - Barack Obama to Hillary Clinton, 1/22/08</blockquote>

<p>The <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/21/debate.transcript/index.html">exchange</a> lasted about 3 seconds -- if you flipped the channel for a moment, you might have missed it. That was the amount of time the two leading candidates for the Democratic nomination for president spent talking about the corporate takeover of our government -- the issue that almost singularly drives American politics and that is at the core of our...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-03-28T02:48:00-04:00</date_published>
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