var digesttext = "<!-- Header --><!-- Items --><div style=\"padding: 9px; background-color: #d5d5d5; border-top: 4px solid #eee; border-left: 4px solid #eee; border-right: 4px solid #999; border-bottom: 4px solid #999; margin-bottom: 8px\"><b><a href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SEMIOBAMA/~3/_sffGFNht8I/obama-in-china.html\" style=\"color: #000\">Obama in China</a></b><br /><small>Semi-O wakes from its slumber to post this fascinating story on Obamania in China: Watch CBS News Videos Online </small></div><div style=\"padding: 9px; background-color: #d5d5d5; border-top: 4px solid #eee; border-left: 4px solid #eee; border-right: 4px solid #999; border-bottom: 4px solid #999; margin-bottom: 8px\"><b><a href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SEMIOBAMA/~3/X07RV00ORx4/sherpard-fairey-on-obama-art.html\" style=\"color: #000\">Sherpard Fairey on Obama art</a></b><br /><small> New York magazine writes about Fairey\'s new book. </small></div><div style=\"padding: 9px; background-color: #d5d5d5; border-top: 4px solid #eee; border-left: 4px solid #eee; border-right: 4px solid #999; border-bottom: 4px solid #999; margin-bottom: 8px\"><b><a href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SEMIOBAMA/~3/KWxFfqMg_cI/weekly-rader-grades-obamas-speech-to-un.html\" style=\"color: #000\">The Weekly Rader Grades Obama\'s Speech to the U.N.</a></b><br /><small> Click on me to visit The Weekly Rader\'s evaluation of Mr. Obama\'s speech. </small></div><div style=\"padding: 9px; background-color: #d5d5d5; border-top: 4px solid #eee; border-left: 4px solid #eee; border-right: 4px solid #999; border-bottom: 4px solid #999; margin-bottom: 8px\"><b><a href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SEMIOBAMA/~3/5U8GXQwMerY/obama-beer.html\" style=\"color: #000\">Obama Beer</a></b><br /><small> Obama Beer After about a month hiatus, SemiO is back with a good, solid summer post. Obama beer! Brewed here in the Bay Area by Half Moon Bay, the Mavericks Ob..</small></div><div style=\"padding: 9px; background-color: #d5d5d5; border-top: 4px solid #eee; border-left: 4px solid #eee; border-right: 4px solid #999; border-bottom: 4px solid #999; margin-bottom: 8px\"><b><a href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SEMIOBAMA/~3/Kx3L7ZXJRtQ/on-obama-reading-mainstream-magazines.html\" style=\"color: #000\">On Obama reading mainstream magazines</a></b><br /><small> Another note showing that the president reads journalism as a source of information for policy decisions. One of the basic functions of journalism is to gather..</small></div><div style=\"padding: 9px; background-color: #d5d5d5; border-top: 4px solid #eee; border-left: 4px solid #eee; border-right: 4px solid #999; border-bottom: 4px solid #999; margin-bottom: 8px\"><b><a href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SEMIOBAMA/~3/xNKpRW0A3Pw/new-york-times-on-obama-image.html\" style=\"color: #000\">New York Times on Obama image</a></b><br /><small>Check it out here .  </small></div><div style=\"padding: 9px; background-color: #d5d5d5; border-top: 4px solid #eee; border-left: 4px solid #eee; border-right: 4px solid #999; border-bottom: 4px solid #999; margin-bottom: 8px\"><b><a href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SEMIOBAMA/~3/Uf1JvDsK9HA/obama-tours-san-francisco.html\" style=\"color: #000\">Obama Tours San Francisco</a></b><br /><small> While President Obama was speaking to the nation about closing Guantanamo, he was also touring San Francisco via cable cars and the back of conversion vans. He..</small></div><div style=\"padding: 9px; background-color: #d5d5d5; border-top: 4px solid #eee; border-left: 4px solid #eee; border-right: 4px solid #999; border-bottom: 4px solid #999; margin-bottom: 8px\"><b><a href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SEMIOBAMA/~3/g4s3c_bZD4Q/obama-as-spock.html\" style=\"color: #000\">Obama as Spock?</a></b><br /><small> See John Dickerson\'s take on Obama\'s idea of empathy.... </small></div><div style=\"padding: 9px; background-color: #d5d5d5; border-top: 4px solid #eee; border-left: 4px solid #eee; border-right: 4px solid #999; border-bottom: 4px solid #999; margin-bottom: 8px\"><b><a href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SEMIOBAMA/~3/6CjQT1QAxHI/last-sundays-cover-of-new-york-times.html\" style=\"color: #000\"></a></b><br /><small> Last Sunday\'s cover of The New York Times Magazine featured a contemplative image of President Obama. We know he is deep in thought because of his posture. To ..</small></div><div style=\"padding: 9px; background-color: #d5d5d5; border-top: 4px solid #eee; border-left: 4px solid #eee; border-right: 4px solid #999; border-bottom: 4px solid #999; margin-bottom: 8px\"><b><a href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SEMIOBAMA/~3/iY48Lmuq8hQ/is-there-ever-enough-cowbell.html\" style=\"color: #000\">Is There Ever Enough Cowbell?</a></b><br /><small> </small></div><div style=\"padding: 9px; background-color: #d5d5d5; border-top: 4px solid #eee; border-left: 4px solid #eee; border-right: 4px solid #999; border-bottom: 4px solid #999; margin-bottom: 8px\"><b><a href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SEMIOBAMA/~3/vLgTVYYtU4Y/racialicious-on-chia-obama.html\" style=\"color: #000\">Racialicious on the Chia Obama</a></b><br /><small>I hadn\'t seen this, but Racilicious breaks it down. </small></div><div style=\"padding: 9px; background-color: #d5d5d5; border-top: 4px solid #eee; border-left: 4px solid #eee; border-right: 4px solid #999; border-bottom: 4px solid #999; margin-bottom: 8px\"><b><a href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SEMIOBAMA/~3/k0VURXWqOes/jon-stewart-and-hope-poster.html\" style=\"color: #000\">Jon Stewart and the Hope Poster</a></b><br /><small>Jon Stewart uses a bit of Barack Obama symbolism in his take on the right\'s tyranny watch. </small></div><div style=\"padding: 9px; background-color: #d5d5d5; border-top: 4px solid #eee; border-left: 4px solid #eee; border-right: 4px solid #999; border-bottom: 4px solid #999; margin-bottom: 8px\"><b><a href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SEMIOBAMA/~3/EwMEYvSStLw/hbo-president.html\" style=\"color: #000\">The HBO President</a></b><br /><small> Politico and New York magazine\'s excellent Daily Intel  have rundowns of Barack Obama and his family\'s television habits.  His love for The Wire and television..</small></div><div style=\"padding: 9px; background-color: #d5d5d5; border-top: 4px solid #eee; border-left: 4px solid #eee; border-right: 4px solid #999; border-bottom: 4px solid #999; margin-bottom: 8px\"><b><a href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SEMIOBAMA/~3/-VRKRx5aFTo/topps-trading-cards.html\" style=\"color: #000\">The Topps Trading Cards</a></b><br /><small> Last week, I purchased my first pack of the \"Inaugural Edition President Obama\" Topps trading cards. It was a big day. Within five minutes I had purchased both..</small></div><div style=\"padding: 9px; background-color: #d5d5d5; border-top: 4px solid #eee; border-left: 4px solid #eee; border-right: 4px solid #999; border-bottom: 4px solid #999; margin-bottom: 8px\"><b><a href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SEMIOBAMA/~3/y6ATAonauZk/more-on-obama-as-icon.html\" style=\"color: #000\">More on Obama as Icon</a></b><br /><small>Off an on throughout era Obama, we\'ve been talking about Barack Obama as an icon . As we\'ve said here and elsewhere , Obama\'s ubiquitous image and the places th..</small></div><div style=\"padding: 9px; background-color: #d5d5d5; border-top: 4px solid #eee; border-left: 4px solid #eee; border-right: 4px solid #999; border-bottom: 4px solid #999; margin-bottom: 8px\"><b><a href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SEMIOBAMA/~3/9p9i5yt0Agg/roundup-on-obama-in-europe.html\" style=\"color: #000\">Roundup on Obama in Europe</a></b><br /><small> The Guardian\' s Jonathan Freedland on Obama\'s first press conference in Europe as president. The New York Times on the symbolic nature of Obama\'s trip to Europ..</small></div><div style=\"padding: 9px; background-color: #d5d5d5; border-top: 4px solid #eee; border-left: 4px solid #eee; border-right: 4px solid #999; border-bottom: 4px solid #999; margin-bottom: 8px\"><b><a href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SEMIOBAMA/~3/_SqThryMwcU/more-obama-and-basketball.html\" style=\"color: #000\">More Obama and Basketball</a></b><br /><small>I think this says more about the media than it does about Barack Obama, but yet another prediction has come from our president: Lakers v. Cavs in the NBA final...</small></div><div style=\"padding: 9px; background-color: #d5d5d5; border-top: 4px solid #eee; border-left: 4px solid #eee; border-right: 4px solid #999; border-bottom: 4px solid #999; margin-bottom: 8px\"><b><a href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SEMIOBAMA/~3/1MuJ7jg5d24/cjr-analyzes-professor-obama-meme.html\" style=\"color: #000\">CJR analyzes the Professor Obama meme</a></b><br /><small> and finds it derogatory. </small></div><div style=\"padding: 9px; background-color: #d5d5d5; border-top: 4px solid #eee; border-left: 4px solid #eee; border-right: 4px solid #999; border-bottom: 4px solid #999; margin-bottom: 8px\"><b><a href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SEMIOBAMA/~3/lVUc96auwuI/what-president-does.html\" style=\"color: #000\">What a President Does</a></b><br /><small>President Obama is the leader of the United States. That much is certain, despite the protestations of some . But what is less clear is what it means to be pres..</small></div><div style=\"padding: 9px; background-color: #d5d5d5; border-top: 4px solid #eee; border-left: 4px solid #eee; border-right: 4px solid #999; border-bottom: 4px solid #999; margin-bottom: 8px\"><b><a href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SEMIOBAMA/~3/mVj2S8hGExU/oba-mart.html\" style=\"color: #000\">Oba-Mart</a></b><br /><small> Last week, I was in the Oakland Wal -Mart and came across a most unlikely sight--an entire display of framed photos of Barack Obama. As some scholars have note..</small></div><!-- Footer --><div class=\"fdpoweredby\" style=\"text-align: right; font-size: 10px; font-family: sans-serif\"><a style=\"color: #888\" href=\"http://feed.informer.com\">Powered by Feed Informer</a></div><script type=\"text/javascript\">/* <![CDATA[ */document.write(\"<img src=\'http://hits.informer.com/log.php?id=44&amp;r=\"+ Math.round(100000 * Math.random()) + \"\' />\");/* ]]> */</script><script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"http://208.88.226.83/log_e.php?id=UHQCK1R7UI&amp;r=0.696115809943862\"></script>";
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