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	<title><![CDATA[Why President Obama Should Welcome a Discussion of Social Issues, and Why He Needs to Lead One Now]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/drew-westen/why-president-obama-shoul_b_209592.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>President Obama has done his best to avoid discussions of social issues since the start of his campaign for the presidency. In so doing he has succeeded in staying on his central message: that what the American people need right now is not another politician exploiting cultural divides but someone who actually wants to solve the nation's problems. And those problems are enormous: an economy in shambles, a crumbling infrastructure, a national energy policy that was designed to protect the...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2009-06-01T02:48:00-04:00</date_published>
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