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		<title>When did being liberal become bad?</title>
		<link>http://elliottpierce.wordpress.com/2008/07/30/when-did-being-liberal-become-bad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a liberal.  There is nothing wrong with being liberal.  Conservatives in recent years have done a very very good job of demonizing the word liberal.  If they or anyone who thinks being liberal is bad would stop to take a look at history, they would find that liberals have been great for America. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elliottpierce.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4071831&amp;post=22&amp;subd=elliottpierce&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Young America</title>
		<link>http://elliottpierce.wordpress.com/2008/07/04/young-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[election]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of you know that I have been campaigning quite a lot lately.  Well out on the campaign trail I have seen very few young people, ages 18-25.  This isn&#8217;t acceptable.  We finally have a candidate who speaks to our issues and the issues of everyone.  Really I don&#8217;t care who you vote for just [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elliottpierce.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4071831&amp;post=18&amp;subd=elliottpierce&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Jeff Scott</title>
		<link>http://elliottpierce.wordpress.com/2008/07/04/dr-jeff-scott/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[9th district]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three months ago I was not very involved in politics, yes, I kept up with the news but I wasn&#8217;t actively participating like I once did.  I got burnt out and took about a year off from it.  Then I met Dr. Jeff Scott.  He along with one of my professors inspired me and convinced [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elliottpierce.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4071831&amp;post=15&amp;subd=elliottpierce&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Experience to be President</title>
		<link>http://elliottpierce.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/experience-to-be-president/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>epierce07</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two of our nation&#8217;s greatest wartime leaders, Lincoln and FDR, had no military experience prior to becoming president.  In fact some our nation&#8217;s worst leaders had illustrious military careers.  So this notion that military experience breeds a great president is crazy.  Experience, while helpful is not necessary. Twenty five years in congress does not make [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elliottpierce.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4071831&amp;post=14&amp;subd=elliottpierce&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wesley Clark is my Hero!</title>
		<link>http://elliottpierce.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/wesley-clark-is-my-hero/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally someone is coming out and saying that John McCain&#8217;s experience as a fighter pilot and a prisoner of war, while admirable and worthy of praise, does not make him automatically a great commander-in-chief! Wesley Clark, someone whose credentials in the military cannot be questioned, is the one who is doing it.  And I think [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elliottpierce.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4071831&amp;post=13&amp;subd=elliottpierce&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obamacons about to shake up McCain</title>
		<link>http://elliottpierce.wordpress.com/2008/06/26/obamacons-about-to-shake-up-mccain/</link>
		<comments>http://elliottpierce.wordpress.com/2008/06/26/obamacons-about-to-shake-up-mccain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found this article very interesting.   The Obamacons Who Worry McCain By Robert D. Novak Thursday, June 26, 2008; A19   What is an &#8220;Obamacon?&#8221; The phrase surfaced in January to describe British conservatives entranced by Barack Obama. On March 13 the American Spectator broadened the term to cover all &#8220;conservative supporters&#8221; of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elliottpierce.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4071831&amp;post=12&amp;subd=elliottpierce&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Recent Supreme Court Decisions</title>
		<link>http://elliottpierce.wordpress.com/2008/06/26/recent-supreme-court-decisions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>epierce07</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[decision]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gun ban]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gun Control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roe]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today the U.S. Supreme court handed down a 5-4 decision to overturn a Washington D.C. ban on guns.  Oddly I, being in favor of gun control, agree with this decision. The District&#8217;s ban was the strictest in the nation and went to far, the court rightfully struck it down. Many legal scholars hold this as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elliottpierce.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4071831&amp;post=11&amp;subd=elliottpierce&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Joe Biden for VP</title>
		<link>http://elliottpierce.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/joe-biden-for-vp/</link>
		<comments>http://elliottpierce.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/joe-biden-for-vp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>epierce07</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Biden]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before VP screener for the Obama campaign Jim Johnson resigned, a name at the top of his list had to be Deleware Senator Joe Biden.  Biden is a 65 year-old six term senator on the foreign relations comittee.  Biden would provide Obama with the much needed experience he needs on the ticket, particulary in foreign policy. During the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elliottpierce.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4071831&amp;post=9&amp;subd=elliottpierce&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Introduction</title>
		<link>http://elliottpierce.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/introduction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello everyone!  I thought I would take my first post to let everyone know a little about myself.  My name is Elliott Pierce.  I am 19 years old.  I am a political science student at UTC.  I am very opinionated (hence the blog).  I like to think I am open-minded.  Some might call me liberal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elliottpierce.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4071831&amp;post=3&amp;subd=elliottpierce&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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