<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37018151.post-3940832488521071950</id><published>2008-01-13T16:09:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-13T16:21:48.171-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Politics'/><title type='text'>The Body Politic Weeps a Bit</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20080107/i/r3836449616.jpg?x=400&amp;y=263&amp;sig=p9ZtztazTyQkvkMvdhfBjw--"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20080107/i/r3836449616.jpg?x=400&amp;y=263&amp;sig=p9ZtztazTyQkvkMvdhfBjw--" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's look at the tears before they harden like resin into cliché. (&lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120000928241482363.html"&gt;Peggy Noonan &lt;/a&gt; in The WSJ).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;And ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He [Barack Obama] plays down emotionalism in terms of his visage (not his words), keeps his guard up, wears dignity like a cloak.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;And ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When he [Obama] appeared with Oprah in Des Moines, she vibrated at the podium like a puppy.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37018151-3940832488521071950?l=similepedia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://similepedia.blogspot.com/feeds/3940832488521071950/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=37018151&amp;postID=3940832488521071950' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37018151/posts/default/3940832488521071950'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/37018151/posts/default/3940832488521071950'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://similepedia.blogspot.com/2008/01/body-politic-weeps-bit.html' title='The Body Politic Weeps a Bit'/><author><name>The Like or As Man</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='09127508693485902776'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry>