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	<title>Comments on: Culture War on Wheels</title>
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		<title>By: Matt H</title>
		<link>http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/09/17/culture-war-on-wheels/comment-page-1/#comment-56543</link>
		<dc:creator>Matt H</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Obama&#039;s bike doesn&#039;t have a pie plate on it, at least. One less thing for BSNYC to find fault with. :-)

What brand is the motorcycle, btw? I guess it&#039;s a Harley, but I&#039;d be tickled if it&#039;s Japanese model or somesuch. Trek is a U.S. company, after all. (Though a bike in that line is most likely made in the ROC or PRC.)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Obama's bike doesn't have a pie plate on it, at least. One less thing for BSNYC to find fault with. <img src='http://www.streetsblog.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>What brand is the motorcycle, btw? I guess it's a Harley, but I'd be tickled if it's Japanese model or somesuch. Trek is a U.S. company, after all. (Though a bike in that line is most likely made in the ROC or PRC.)</p>
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		<title>By: Reid Davis</title>
		<link>http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/09/17/culture-war-on-wheels/comment-page-1/#comment-56530</link>
		<dc:creator>Reid Davis</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This conservative favors transit, biking, density and complete streets, for all the reasons thorn (#7) mentioned. I&#039;m far from the only one (one time conservative gadfly Paul Weyrich is a big streetcar advocate -- http://townhall.com/columnists/PaulWeyrich/2008/06/04/streetcars_are_returning,_in_spite_of_bush_administration_opposition) but generally it&#039;s pretty lonely over here.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This conservative favors transit, biking, density and complete streets, for all the reasons thorn (#7) mentioned. I'm far from the only one (one time conservative gadfly Paul Weyrich is a big streetcar advocate -- <a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/PaulWeyrich/2008/06/04/streetcars_are_returning,_in_spite_of_bush_administration_opposition)" rel="nofollow">http://townhall.com/columnists/PaulWeyrich/2008/06/04/streetcars_are_returning,_in_spite_of_bush_administration_opposition)</a> but generally it's pretty lonely over here.</p>
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		<title>By: lee</title>
		<link>http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/09/17/culture-war-on-wheels/comment-page-1/#comment-56473</link>
		<dc:creator>lee</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>is that a secret service agent on his cellphone driving the car in the background, or just an idiot?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>is that a secret service agent on his cellphone driving the car in the background, or just an idiot?</p>
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		<title>By: Max Rockatansky</title>
		<link>http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/09/17/culture-war-on-wheels/comment-page-1/#comment-56471</link>
		<dc:creator>Max Rockatansky</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Classic! The funny thing is most of the comments are about schoolboy crushes on Palin. Somehow I think that&#039;s about as much vetting as she ever got.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Classic! The funny thing is most of the comments are about schoolboy crushes on Palin. Somehow I think that's about as much vetting as she ever got.</p>
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		<title>By: Mike</title>
		<link>http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/09/17/culture-war-on-wheels/comment-page-1/#comment-56469</link>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Obama is pulling a trailbike. His daughter riding it was cut from the picture apparently in order not to expose her to too much commentary/campainging.

It looks not only like his tire is not inflated (could be suffering a puncture) but also his seat seems to be too low. I guess he does not get to ride too much on that bike (btw. that Trek gives a much better impression than Sen. Kerry&#039;s who-knows-how-many-thousands-of-dollars Serotta).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Obama is pulling a trailbike. His daughter riding it was cut from the picture apparently in order not to expose her to too much commentary/campainging.</p>
<p>It looks not only like his tire is not inflated (could be suffering a puncture) but also his seat seems to be too low. I guess he does not get to ride too much on that bike (btw. that Trek gives a much better impression than Sen. Kerry's who-knows-how-many-thousands-of-dollars Serotta).</p>
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		<title>By: Steve</title>
		<link>http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/09/17/culture-war-on-wheels/comment-page-1/#comment-56466</link>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yep, that is all I need to know. I&#039;m voting for Obama.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yep, that is all I need to know. I'm voting for Obama.</p>
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		<title>By: Andy Trafford</title>
		<link>http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/09/17/culture-war-on-wheels/comment-page-1/#comment-56462</link>
		<dc:creator>Andy Trafford</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Doh!!  I knew there was a reason my wife sent me back to school.....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Doh!!  I knew there was a reason my wife sent me back to school.....</p>
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		<title>By: JP</title>
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		<dc:creator>JP</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Our comments have fewer spelling mistakes... (joke)</description>
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		<title>By: Andy Trafford</title>
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		<dc:creator>Andy Trafford</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Our comments have less spelling mistakes.   And we know the difference between a Schwinn and a Trek.  That Palin woman scares me.</description>
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		<title>By: Duncan Watson</title>
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		<dc:creator>Duncan Watson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Following the link to that site was harmful to my brain.  I am happy to see that Barak Obama spends time riding his bike with one of his daughters in tow.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Following the link to that site was harmful to my brain.  I am happy to see that Barak Obama spends time riding his bike with one of his daughters in tow.</p>
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		<title>By: CarloP</title>
		<link>http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/09/17/culture-war-on-wheels/comment-page-1/#comment-56455</link>
		<dc:creator>CarloP</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is quite damaging to Obama. Look at that back tire! Not even close to properly inflated. How much energy was he wasting?
The hypocrisy!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is quite damaging to Obama. Look at that back tire! Not even close to properly inflated. How much energy was he wasting?<br />
The hypocrisy!</p>
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		<title>By: thom</title>
		<link>http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/09/17/culture-war-on-wheels/comment-page-1/#comment-56454</link>
		<dc:creator>thom</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:14:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>One thing that&#039;s hard to understand about conservatives&#039; hostility toward &quot;alternative&quot; transportation is that complete and livable streets movements are fundamentally about values of community, cooperation, and safety, which are values also claimed by conservatives. Isolated, rageful drivers speeding past and slamming into each other seems like a greater threat to supposedly conservative values than livable streets where communities can connect. Oh wait, if we *connect*, then we can&#039;t tuck ourselves away in pressboard suburbs and base our social and political ideology on fear and prejudice--now I get it, never mind.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One thing that's hard to understand about conservatives' hostility toward "alternative" transportation is that complete and livable streets movements are fundamentally about values of community, cooperation, and safety, which are values also claimed by conservatives. Isolated, rageful drivers speeding past and slamming into each other seems like a greater threat to supposedly conservative values than livable streets where communities can connect. Oh wait, if we *connect*, then we can't tuck ourselves away in pressboard suburbs and base our social and political ideology on fear and prejudice--now I get it, never mind.</p>
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		<title>By: Charles Siegel</title>
		<link>http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/09/17/culture-war-on-wheels/comment-page-1/#comment-56452</link>
		<dc:creator>Charles Siegel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>from an email that is circulating:

If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you&#039;re &#039;exotic&#039; and &#039;different.&#039;
 
Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, you&#039;re an American story.
 
If your name is Barack you&#039;re a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
 
Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, and you&#039;re a maverick.
 
Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.
 
Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, then you&#039;re well-grounded.
 
If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 daughters, all within Protestant churches,  you&#039;re not a real Christian.
 
If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, left your ill wife, and married the heiress the next month, you&#039;re a Christian.

If your husband is called &#039;First Dude&#039;, has a DWI conviction, didn&#039;t register to vote until 25, and was a member of a group that advocated secession of Alaska from the USA, yours is the quintessential American family.
 
And, finally, if you&#039;re famous for your quick temper, you&#039;re the one to have your finger on the red nuclear button.

and I would add:

If your husband was a member of a group that advocated secession from the US, so you and he would no longer be American citizens, then you are proud to be an American.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>from an email that is circulating:</p>
<p>If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're 'exotic' and 'different.'</p>
<p>Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, you're an American story.</p>
<p>If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.</p>
<p>Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, and you're a maverick.</p>
<p>Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.</p>
<p>Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, then you're well-grounded.</p>
<p>If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 daughters, all within Protestant churches,  you're not a real Christian.</p>
<p>If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, left your ill wife, and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian.</p>
<p>If your husband is called 'First Dude', has a DWI conviction, didn't register to vote until 25, and was a member of a group that advocated secession of Alaska from the USA, yours is the quintessential American family.</p>
<p>And, finally, if you're famous for your quick temper, you're the one to have your finger on the red nuclear button.</p>
<p>and I would add:</p>
<p>If your husband was a member of a group that advocated secession from the US, so you and he would no longer be American citizens, then you are proud to be an American.</p>
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		<title>By: mike</title>
		<link>http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/09/17/culture-war-on-wheels/comment-page-1/#comment-56451</link>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>don&#039;t read the comments on the linked site. it will hurt your head. (well, mine anyway.)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>don't read the comments on the linked site. it will hurt your head. (well, mine anyway.)</p>
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		<title>By: Omri</title>
		<link>http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/09/17/culture-war-on-wheels/comment-page-1/#comment-56450</link>
		<dc:creator>Omri</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Palin was posing on the motorcycle to help advertise a charity raffle in which it was the main prize.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Palin was posing on the motorcycle to help advertise a charity raffle in which it was the main prize.</p>
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		<title>By: Clarence Eckerson Jr.</title>
		<link>http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/09/17/culture-war-on-wheels/comment-page-1/#comment-56449</link>
		<dc:creator>Clarence Eckerson Jr.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Is she carrying a tanning bed in the back of that thing?</description>
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		<title>By: Car Free Nation</title>
		<link>http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/09/17/culture-war-on-wheels/comment-page-1/#comment-56448</link>
		<dc:creator>Car Free Nation</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s only promising if Obama pulls it off...</description>
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		<title>By: Susan Donovan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Susan Donovan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Obama has some kind of cargo attachment on that bike? Has he got one of the girls in there? :)</description>
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