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<rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title>Bang the Drum - Latest Comments in Smoke and Mirror Politics</title><link>http://bangthedrum.disqus.com/</link><description>politics and issues</description><atom:link href="https://bangthedrum.disqus.com/smoke_and_mirror_politics/latest.rss" rel="self"></atom:link><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:56:44 -0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Re: Smoke and Mirror Politics</title><link>http://politics.drumsnwhistles.com/2008/04/smoke-and-mirror-politics/#comment-3779822</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Tim, whatever. You can nitpick, or address the point, which is that what he said was true.  Small town or inner city, people are angry, and they don't believe politicians care about their economic well-being at all, so they vote for candidates based on whether they hate gays, love guns, or believe that world domination is a good thing.  It wasn't any more elitist than your comment was.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Karoli</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:56:44 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Smoke and Mirror Politics</title><link>http://politics.drumsnwhistles.com/2008/04/smoke-and-mirror-politics/#comment-3779821</link><description>&lt;p&gt;You have to know what a drum is before you can bang it. And you don't have a clue what a drum is. Just for the sake of context, "context" cannot be "everything" if "truth" is "everything" and vice-versa. It is idiocy to claim that two things can both be "everything." That alone demonstrates your failure to understand what a drum is much less how to bang one.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Tim Brannan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:35:30 -0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>