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From NBC/National Journal's Adam Aigner-TreworgyBEDFORD, NH&amp;nbsp;-- This morning, Thompson participated in the New Hampshire tradition of Politics and Eggs, a talk sponsored by the New Hampshire Political Library and the New England Council,</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.0 (Build: 60608.1)</generator><item><title>Fred calls for unity, then blasts rivals</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/11/05/448394.aspx#448430</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:10:48 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:448430</guid><dc:creator>jerry/corpus christi texas</dc:creator><description>Any city that is a sanctuary city should never get any kind of federal funding....&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Mayors who break the law should be kicked out of office and maybe even arrested....&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;If Rudy did the same thing, he should have been taken apart as well....&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;There is no room for illegal aliens in this country.</description></item><item><title>Fred calls for unity, then blasts rivals</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/11/05/448394.aspx#448442</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:17:31 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:448442</guid><dc:creator>Augie Doggy, back in the pack</dc:creator><description>Unite us through wedge issues, Fred, and keep &amp;quot;Compassionate Conservatism&amp;quot; alive! &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;And don't you ever stop trying - sooner or later that moon is going to bark back at you!</description></item><item><title>Fred calls for unity, then blasts rivals</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/11/05/448394.aspx#448557</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:04:52 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:448557</guid><dc:creator>jt, okc</dc:creator><description>Arkansas was not a sanctuary city. Period. Plus Gov. Huckabee wasn't the highest taxing Governors.&lt;br&gt;Two lies in a row, and he gets away with it. </description></item><item><title>Fred calls for unity, then blasts rivals</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/11/05/448394.aspx#448614</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:29:36 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:448614</guid><dc:creator>G</dc:creator><description>Fred is DEAD.End of story.</description></item><item><title>Fred calls for unity, then blasts rivals</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/11/05/448394.aspx#448615</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:29:50 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:448615</guid><dc:creator>R.Merrell</dc:creator><description>Fred, as you say, loss of confidence in our government is not good. &amp;nbsp;And that loss is directly the responsibility and the result of GW Bush, Dick Cheney, and the Republican Party's lack of leadership. &amp;nbsp;The Republicans held the majority in Congress until the 2006 election and even now are barely in the minority thus giving further support to the divisive, disastrous policies of this President. &amp;nbsp;The Republican field of candidates, with the exception of Ron Paul, would do nothing but continue Bush's agenda. &amp;nbsp;Rudy G. and his neocon staff are hoping to further enrage the Middle east with another ill conceived war with Iran. &amp;nbsp;The Republicans have no agenda other than fear and war. &amp;nbsp;They stand for nothing positive and have no platform other than attacking Hillary Clinton. &amp;nbsp;For a political party so bereft of ideas and so narrowly focused, it's no wonder the American people are so skeptical of a candidate, you Fred Thompson, who has stood 100% behind the policies of this Administration. &amp;nbsp;You mention having a President who represents all of the people. &amp;nbsp;GW Bush has never understood that concept and never intended to represent anyone other than his narrow, conservative, monied base. &amp;nbsp;Where has your voice been all these years, Fred. &amp;nbsp;You've supported this President without question. &amp;nbsp;Why would we want more of the same? &amp;nbsp; </description></item><item><title>Fred calls for unity, then blasts rivals</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/11/05/448394.aspx#448635</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:38:48 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:448635</guid><dc:creator>nuanced</dc:creator><description>Augie Doggy is back! Where is your doggy daddy?</description></item><item><title>Fred calls for unity, then blasts rivals</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/11/05/448394.aspx#448653</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:44:08 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:448653</guid><dc:creator>Jim, Edwardsville, IL</dc:creator><description>When all else fails, go negative, huh Fred? &amp;nbsp;What a joke. &amp;nbsp;He can't handle himself in the debates, as Huckabee, Romney, Giuliani &amp;amp; McCain eat him alive...so now he goes on national TV to do it? &amp;nbsp;Luckily, most of us Christian Conservatives were at church on Sunday morning when he was bumbling about on Meet the Press. &amp;nbsp;I see Fred still isn't attending church...</description></item><item><title>Fred calls for unity, then blasts rivals</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/11/05/448394.aspx#448662</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:49:25 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:448662</guid><dc:creator>John S Alexander,Edinboro,PA</dc:creator><description>Odd, nativist jargon with bipartisan icing, what a cake to bake!&lt;br&gt;Fred, too little too late, should a thought of that before, are you also THE OUTSIDER candidate?&lt;br&gt;Danial Boone in spandex would look better as a candidate, Fred looks like a walking metaphor for a person wanting a job as a re-enacter for a FIVE POINTS gang war and a modern dixiecrat, what a contortionist, what an actor, BRAVO, BRAVO!!&lt;br&gt;Give that man a drink and sit his butt down.&lt;br&gt;At one time, in history, actors were worse than lawyers and professional women, how times have changed, but then.........WHAT?</description></item><item><title>Fred calls for unity, then blasts rivals</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/11/05/448394.aspx#448700</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:03:49 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:448700</guid><dc:creator>bb</dc:creator><description>Fred is deaddeaddead. Done gone.</description></item><item><title>Fred calls for unity, then blasts rivals</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/11/05/448394.aspx#448802</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:41:13 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:448802</guid><dc:creator>J. Merle Stanley, Westchester, NY</dc:creator><description>&amp;quot;.....There is no room for illegal aliens in this country. &lt;br&gt;jerry/corpus christi texas (Sent Monday, November 05, 2007 1:10 PM).....&amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Yet another FAILURE on the part of the republiCANT party, jerry.&lt;br&gt;RAY-GUN was the one who originated the amnesty plan for illegals. I think it was back in '86.' It led to 10's of thousands MORE illegals coming into the country, instead of curtailing illegal imigrations as it was intended to do.&lt;br&gt;It's funny that Bush 43 also worked on legislation when he was Governor of Texas, to include illegals in the Texas Public School System, and in the healthcare &amp;quot;system&amp;quot; as well.&lt;br&gt;These are YOUR heros jerry. These are the people YOU put your faith in.&lt;br&gt;Seems upon closer inspection that they had/have feet of clay, eh, jerry?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description></item><item><title>Fred calls for unity, then blasts rivals</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/11/05/448394.aspx#448826</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:51:35 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:448826</guid><dc:creator>Rufus Gibbons,  DC</dc:creator><description>Fred probably just forgot his lines and there were no cue cards. If you attended one of his speeches and held up a card that said &amp;quot;Fred's a loser&amp;quot; he would say it without blinking</description></item><item><title>Fred calls for unity, then blasts rivals</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/11/05/448394.aspx#448829</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:52:58 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:448829</guid><dc:creator>Blue state baby</dc:creator><description>Old man Fred is dead and the shrub is out of his head.</description></item><item><title>Fred calls for unity, then blasts rivals</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/11/05/448394.aspx#449028</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:45:15 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:449028</guid><dc:creator>Joe Hutchings, Cedar Rapids Iowa</dc:creator><description>Fred is speaking the truth in an understandable and non political speech manner. I love it and he is right about his rivals. Everything he said about Huckabee, Romney and Guiliani is accurate.</description></item><item><title>Fred calls for unity, then blasts rivals</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/11/05/448394.aspx#449264</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:23:39 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:449264</guid><dc:creator>jerry/corpus christi texas</dc:creator><description>Merle: &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Your girl seems to have the same problem when it comes to illegals and drivers licenses in New York.&lt;br&gt;Which side of the issue does she come out on....&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;you could say she has a &amp;quot;bi&amp;quot;issue on everything....&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hint hint hint hint..........</description></item><item><title>Fred calls for unity, then blasts rivals</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/11/05/448394.aspx#449289</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:28:22 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:449289</guid><dc:creator>Augie Doggy</dc:creator><description>&amp;quot;Augie Doggy is back! Where is your doggy daddy? &amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Barking at the moon.</description></item><item><title>Fred calls for unity, then blasts rivals</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/11/05/448394.aspx#449378</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:47:24 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:449378</guid><dc:creator>Bluffton, SC</dc:creator><description>Why is Fred constantly attacking the other republicans? Besides, most of his comments about the rivals are NOT true! What is the deal? If you can't dazzle people with briliance, just baffle them with BS?</description></item><item><title>Fred calls for unity, then blasts rivals</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/11/05/448394.aspx#449589</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:48:25 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:449589</guid><dc:creator>Renny</dc:creator><description>Fred Thompson is speaking the truth. &amp;nbsp;He has my vote.</description></item><item><title>Fred calls for unity, then blasts rivals</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/11/05/448394.aspx#449873</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 01:58:23 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:449873</guid><dc:creator>John, West Palm Beach, Fl. </dc:creator><description>Fred, just go away. &amp;nbsp;Republicans need new leadership, &amp;nbsp;not your old ways. &amp;nbsp;Please leave us alone so we can focus on a new vision for Americans. &amp;nbsp;</description></item><item><title>Fred calls for unity, then blasts rivals</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/11/05/448394.aspx#450333</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 06:27:05 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:450333</guid><dc:creator>megan, Crestview, FL</dc:creator><description>Fred is the only candidate that has actually been coming up with ways to tackle several of our country's problems, while the other candidates have been busy arguing about who would be better to fight Hillary...as far as I know, she hasn't been chosen just yet and they're only wasting our time.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Fred provides the sources and links on his site to each point that he brings up on the other candidates records...something that I think is fair game if they want to run as being the best choice for this country. &amp;nbsp;He hasn't launched any personal attacks on any candidate. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I try to research each of the candidates and make my choices based on what they actually do, not what they promise to do or which candidate the msm decides to try to steer the votes.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I know that Fred delivered on his Senate campaign promises, which helped elect him a 2nd time by an even larger margin. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Personally, I don't care if people consider him to be dull...I'd much rather have what you consider to be a dull President that can do the job well, then an entertaining candidate that has no substance behind it. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I just hope folks will do their research on all of the candidates, rather than letting the media decide for you. &amp;nbsp;(If you don't believe me...watch Fox and the coverage they've given Giuliani vs. Thompson...then tell me they're &amp;quot;fair and balanced&amp;quot;)</description></item><item><title>Fred calls for unity, then blasts rivals</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/11/05/448394.aspx#450383</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 07:17:08 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:450383</guid><dc:creator>Bill Stewan</dc:creator><description>Who's the doorknob that said Fred's comments were accurate?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Maybe he should spend more time researching the facts and less time posting comments.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Fred Thompson lost his edge. &amp;nbsp;I was on board with him before he started to self destruct. &amp;nbsp;I'm now behind Governor Hucakbee due to his pro-life, anti-illegal stands.</description></item><item><title>Fred calls for unity, then blasts rivals</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/11/05/448394.aspx#450560</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:00:06 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:450560</guid><dc:creator>Bunny, Winston-Salem, NC</dc:creator><description>As Republicans, we would be wise to nominate the decent, thoughtful, non-equivocating, consistent Fred Thompson. As a country, we would be wise to elect him. Renny, he has my vote too.</description></item><item><title>Fred calls for unity, then blasts rivals</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/11/05/448394.aspx#451302</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:07:45 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:451302</guid><dc:creator>Pacheck</dc:creator><description>Fredhorn Leghorn is just as he looks and talks. I'm suprised he isn,t already a cabinet member. Does anybody really take him serious?</description></item></channel></rss>