Author: michael o. allen
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The Civil-Rights Issue of Our Time
While much of the country is rightly focused on the presidential election, there’s no contest more important to me this year than an initiative on the ballot in California. If it passes with a simple majority, Proposition 8 will take away the fundamental right to marry for same-sex couples in that state. The measure has…
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McCain trolling
Sen. John McCain’s relentlessly desperate, dirty attacks against Sen. Barack Obama should not be forgotten no matter how this election comes out on Tuesday. His name should go down in infamy with that of Sen. Joe McCarthy for the worst kind of guilt-by-association attacks. The New Republic’s John Judis points out in this video the…
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Closing arguments
American Stories, American Solutions Update: Babe, a commenter at The New York Times blog post about the ad, said this What was most striking about Obama’s half-hour infomercial was that he never mentioned McCain’s name, in fact never spoke of him. We essentially heard a politician speak without throwing dirt, tossing around falsehoods about his…
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Welfare queens revisted?
TNR’s John Judis makes an important point in a blog post today: I mention the Bradley effect because I think, too, that McCain and Sarah Palin’s attack against Obama for advocating “spreading the wealth” and for “socialism” and for pronouncing the civil rights revolution a “tragedy” because it didn’t deal with the distribution of wealth…
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Make history
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On health
The Central Virginia Progressive-The DAVISReport sent us Obama v. McCain on health and wellness, including bills The article below really breaks down the health care crisis. Comparing both candidates plan, it provides a hyperlink to the non partisan Health Policy Center’s analysis of both candidates proposed plans. An important read on this important issue. click…
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Comparing positions
The Central Virginia Progressive-The DAVISReport sent us the Obama v. McCain Tax Calculator Let the numbers speak for themselves. Click on the program below and see how your pocketbook will fare at tax time under each candidate’s plan. Barack Obama and Joe Biden: Change We Need | Obama Tax Calculator POSTED BY WWW.EILEENDAVIS.BLOGSPOT.COM THE DAVIS…
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She just might be
(Photo by Mark Lyons for The New York Times) On a visit to her husband’s campaign office in Akron, Michelle Obama made calls to undecided voters, mixing talk about policy with chitchat about Ohio, laughter about her life in politics and tidbits about her family. Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin
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Suppressing the vote
Protect This Election By Andrew Gumbel This article appeared in the November 10, 2008 edition of The Nation. Not so long ago, when Karl Rove was still dreaming of a permanent Republican majority based on his “50 percent plus one” model for fighting and winning elections, 2008 was shaping up as possibly the dirtiest election…
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Republican war against voting
The GOP’s Blame-ACORN Game By Peter Dreier & John Atlas This article appeared in the November 10, 2008 edition of The Nation. An increasingly desperate Republican attack machine has recently identified the community organizing group ACORN as Public Enemy Number One. Among ACORN’s alleged crimes, perhaps the most serious is that it caused, nearly single-handedly,…