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		<title>Reorganization&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://engagethespectrum.wordpress.com/2008/11/08/reorganization/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 18:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may have noticed that there hasn&#8217;t been a lot of activity at ETS lately. We offer no good excuses, minus the growing demands of work and an incessant and obsessive monitoring of the last days of the election. ETS extends its congratulations to President-Elect Barack Obama. 
Now that the two-year plus presidential campaign is complete, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=engagethespectrum.wordpress.com&blog=4471411&post=592&subd=engagethespectrum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Joe the Senator</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 05:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kenneth W. Chandler
Sarah Palin threw her hands in the air and she waved them like she just didn&#8217;t care, as Amy Poehler rapped about her killing moose and stumping about Billy Ayers. Palin&#8217;s record-breaking appearance on Saturday Night Live certainly helped introduce some light-heartedness into an otherwise increasingly intense, contentious, overwrought campaign season. The problem [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=engagethespectrum.wordpress.com&blog=4471411&post=588&subd=engagethespectrum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Discussion: Has the campaign gone over the top?</title>
		<link>http://engagethespectrum.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/special-discussion-has-the-campaign-gone-over-the-top/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
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An October 8 editorial in The New York Times, Politics of Attack, claims that &#8220;Senator John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin have been running one of the most appalling campaigns we can remember.&#8221; 
Engage the Spectrum wants to know what you think. Has the Republican campaign reached a new level of negativity or is this just politics [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=engagethespectrum.wordpress.com&blog=4471411&post=575&subd=engagethespectrum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sarah Plain and Perilous</title>
		<link>http://engagethespectrum.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/sarah-plain-and-perilous/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:34:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lewis C. Miller
I really wanted to avoid making a full-length post about Sarah Palin. Really, I did. For the past few weeks I&#8217;ve contemplated whether or not to devote my energy to the topic &#8211; my colleague Kenneth can attest to that. However, with the convenient outlet that this new blog provides, I can no [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=engagethespectrum.wordpress.com&blog=4471411&post=563&subd=engagethespectrum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Master-Debating</title>
		<link>http://engagethespectrum.wordpress.com/2008/09/29/master-debating/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:50:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kenneth W. Chandler
We catch Jim Lehrer explaining the debate rules 10 minutes before it commences. He&#8217;s so respected that I imagine myself in that audience feeling threatened, yet somehow secure.
9:03 pm &#8211; First lie of the night &#8211; we overhear Obama say &#8220;good to see you John.&#8221; By the way, this is the only time [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=engagethespectrum.wordpress.com&blog=4471411&post=525&subd=engagethespectrum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Failure Abounds: More of the Same</title>
		<link>http://engagethespectrum.wordpress.com/2008/09/28/failure-abounds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
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Lewis C. Miller
If there were any residual doubts that a John McCain administration would indeed be “more of the same,” the candidate himself put those doubts to rest earlier today.
During an interview with George Stephanopoulos for ABC’s “This Week,” McCain was asked about the extent of the role he played in helping Congress reach a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=engagethespectrum.wordpress.com&blog=4471411&post=511&subd=engagethespectrum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Characters</title>
		<link>http://engagethespectrum.wordpress.com/2008/09/25/characters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lewis C. Miller
Following a long day at the office, I found my way to a nearby Capitol Hill bar. Upon entering, I noticed that in proper Washington, D.C. fashion, all of the television screens were transmitting the message that had reverberated around town that afternoon: Republican presidential candidate John McCain was suspending his campaign and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=engagethespectrum.wordpress.com&blog=4471411&post=499&subd=engagethespectrum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Battleground Topic Posted!</title>
		<link>http://engagethespectrum.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/new-battleground-topic-posted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most recent ETS battleground topic has been chosen. The topic to be debated concerns the substantial federal bailouts that have already taken place in response to the crisis on Wall Street (Bear Sterns, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG) as well as the additional $700 billion rescue plan that has been proposed. 
Click here to submit your opinion or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=engagethespectrum.wordpress.com&blog=4471411&post=443&subd=engagethespectrum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cold, Hard Facts</title>
		<link>http://engagethespectrum.wordpress.com/2008/09/20/cold-hard-facts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lewis C. Miller
One of the most unfortunate consequences of the recent economic crisis that culminated in horrific fashion this week is the crippling blow that has been dealt to agenda of the next President.
When either Senator Obama or Senator McCain takes office in January, they will do so with an increasingly diminished ability to change [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=engagethespectrum.wordpress.com&blog=4471411&post=433&subd=engagethespectrum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Unique Creature?</title>
		<link>http://engagethespectrum.wordpress.com/2008/09/19/a-unique-creature/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gov. Sarah Palin, much like the current Vice President, appears unwilling to specify which branch of government her position would belong to should the McCain-Palin (Palin-McCain?) ticket win in November. 
This blatant reluctance of Gov. Palin to provide an answer to this most straighforward of inquiries (no unwarranted blaming an overzealous media on this one, Barracuda) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=engagethespectrum.wordpress.com&blog=4471411&post=424&subd=engagethespectrum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PodKenneth: The Land of the Free?</title>
		<link>http://engagethespectrum.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/podkenneth-the-land-of-the-free/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Play Ball!&#8221; is what is traditionally exclaimed after another rousing rendition of the Star Spangled Banner at a sporting event. In fact, that&#8217;s one of the more neutral things that is asserted; I&#8217;ve heard worse. That said, many spectators collect themselves for 60 seconds, although already drunkenly into their third beer to take off their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=engagethespectrum.wordpress.com&blog=4471411&post=401&subd=engagethespectrum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PodLewis: China&#8217;s Quandary</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:49:07 +0000</pubDate>
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China is growing.
Talk about some non-breaking news. These days, you would be hard-pressed to take in a news broadcast or skim the front page of a newspaper without being reminded that, in almost every quantifiable measure, China is rapidly growing.
What should be breaking news is the way that China is growing. China’s chosen pattern of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=engagethespectrum.wordpress.com&blog=4471411&post=276&subd=engagethespectrum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>First Battleground Topic Posted!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first engage the spectrum battleground topic has been chosen. The topic to be debated concerns Senator McCain&#8217;s somewhat unexpected selection of Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska to be his running mate. 

Click here to submit your opinion or to learn more about battleground topics.
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		<title>PodKenneth: One Hundred Dollars and an F</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When recently reading about Chancellor Michelle Rhee’s plans to offer middle school students in Washington, D.C., cash, for good behavior, I was a bit dismayed. Somewhat because I was always good in middle school and missed my opportunity to receive cash for it. But, more importantly because I don’t like the precedent this sets for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=engagethespectrum.wordpress.com&blog=4471411&post=226&subd=engagethespectrum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Counterpoint: I’ll Take a Seat at the Table for Dessert, but not The Last Supper</title>
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In response to a Point made by Lewis C. Miller, Kenneth W. Chandler posits that if he had declined to participate in Rick Warren&#8217;s forum, Barack Obama may have actually amplified the divise role of religion in the presidential race
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