<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>Colbert Ends White House Bid; A Nation Tries to Heal : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><link><id>40730</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/40730/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Colbert Ends White House Bid; A Nation Tries to Heal]]></title><description><![CDATA[So close. So sad.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>-21</score><crdate>11/5/2007 9:58:38 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-11-05T21:58:38+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>32774</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/32774/1/</url><title><![CDATA[White House Manual Details How to Deal With Protesters]]></title><description><![CDATA[A White House <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.aclu.org/pdfs/freespeech/presidential_advance_manual.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">manual</a>(pdf) that came to light recently gives presidential advance staffers extensive instructions in the art of &quot;deterring potential protestors&quot; from President Bush's public appearances around the country.]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>148</score><crdate>8/23/2007 12:11:59 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-08-23T00:11:59+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>82101</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/82101/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Should Obama Consider Gender for White House Picks?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Many women's groups are worried about Obama's picks for his White House staff.  Apparently, there's not enough women.<br/><br/>Should he pick the right person for the job? Or the right gender?]]></description><comments>19</comments><score>73</score><crdate>11/17/2008 5:11:51 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-11-17T17:11:51+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>12401</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/12401/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Scooter Libby Guity on 4 out of 5 Charges]]></title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>44</score><crdate>3/6/2007 12:35:10 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-03-06T12:35:10+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>13275</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/13275/1/</url><title><![CDATA[New Emails Obtained Suggest White House Aides Lied about Firings]]></title><description><![CDATA[Just breaking, MTB has obtained excerpts from the leaked emails suggesting the WHite House targeted federal attorneys for firing because they were not &quot;Bush loyalists&quot;<br/>Another Bush administration scandal, lies and cover-ups. <br/><br/>This update provides access to the actual email and may be the first place on the Internet to find it.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>63</score><crdate>3/15/2007 9:53:33 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-03-15T21:53:33+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>10658</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/10658/1/</url><title><![CDATA[White House: &quot;Carpooling sucks!&quot;]]></title><description><![CDATA[White House says carpooling won't reduce traffic congestion. Their answer: build more roads and make people pay to use them... and then make them pay even more during rush hour.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>26</score><crdate>2/12/2007 3:36:00 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-02-12T15:36:00+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>38032</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/38032/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Indecision 2008]]></title><description><![CDATA[Finally a website that can offer me election news and present it in a humorous fashion.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>49</score><crdate>10/11/2007 4:05:26 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-10-11T16:05:26+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>78745</id><url>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/78745/1/</url><title><![CDATA['Truthiness' Could Swing Stephen Colbert Into Marvel White House]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mark Waid, The Amazing Spider-Man writer who assimilated the faux newscaster/White House wannabe into issue No. 573 of the comic book, thinks we could use a Colbert presidency more than we could use a Palin vice presidency.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>269</score><crdate>10/6/2008 12:33:34 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-10-06T00:33:34+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>4329</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/4329/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Time's White House photographers have a daily photoblog]]></title><description><![CDATA[See the images and other stuff that doesn't make it into the magazine]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>16</score><crdate>10/24/2006 9:32:16 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-10-24T21:32:16+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>4851</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/4851/1/</url><title><![CDATA[White House accuses Kerry of insulting military personnel.]]></title><description><![CDATA[John Kerry fires back like a politician, avoiding reference to the original accusation]]></description><comments>7</comments><score>4</score><crdate>10/31/2006 2:21:27 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-10-31T14:21:27+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>70658</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/70658/1/</url><title><![CDATA[House panel votes to cite Rove for contempt]]></title><description><![CDATA[Voting 20-14 along party lines, the House Judiciary Committee voted to cite former top White House aide Karl Rove for contempt of Congress. 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Two brothers bought the house for a ridiculously low price and solved the mystery.]]></description><comments>8</comments><score>360</score><crdate>12/22/2007 10:04:24 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-12-22T22:04:24+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>38610</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/38610/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Colbert for President! ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Stephen Colbert announced his candidacy for president on &quot;The Colbert Report,&quot; tossing his satirical hat into the ring of an already crowded race.<br/><br/>&quot;I shall seek the office of the President of the United States,&quot; announced Colbert on his Comedy Central show Tuesday, as red, white and blue balloons fell around him.]]></description><comments>6</comments><score>271</score><crdate>10/17/2007 9:36:18 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-10-17T09:36:18+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>19734</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/19734/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Man spends 96 years in same house]]></title><description><![CDATA[A 96-year-old man in Portsmouth, England, still living in the house in which he was born says he doesn't understand why people move around so much.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>42</score><crdate>5/10/2007 10:04:06 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-10T10:04:06+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>5130</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/5130/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Naked Man Arrested Following Waffle House Dispute]]></title><description><![CDATA[Waffle House is where all of the excitement happens.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>2</score><crdate>11/3/2006 7:01:21 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-11-03T19:01:21+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>50406</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/50406/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Ghost-like white stag spotted in Scotland]]></title><description><![CDATA[A mythical and ghostly creature has appeared in the wilds of the Scottish Highlands. 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You can use this site to draw a house, answer some questions based on your house then find out what your house says about you.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>27</score><crdate>11/17/2006 4:46:46 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-11-17T04:46:46+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>40181</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/40181/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Colbert to run as Dem; GOP too costly]]></title><description><![CDATA[Steven Colbert will run as a Democrat on the South Carolina Primary Ballot because getting on the GOP ballot costs $35,000.00 (Compared to $2,500.00 for the Dems)]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>119</score><crdate>10/31/2007 5:16:42 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-10-31T17:16:42+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>19622</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/19622/1/</url><title><![CDATA[White and Nerdy]]></title><description><![CDATA[The legend is that Weird Al Yankovic sang &quot;White and Nerdy&quot; to the tune of &quot;Ridin' Dirty&quot; by CHAMILLIONAIRE.]]></description><comments>7</comments><score>64</score><crdate>5/9/2007 11:48:41 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-09T11:48:41+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>