Author: michael o. allen
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Keating 5 ring a bell?
The Central Virginia Progressive-The DAVISReport sent us this message: Dick Cheney with lipstick in her best wink wink, nod nod, curtsy curtsy, wiggle wiggle, bratty girl whine is really desperate to turn this election around on fear and smear politics. Fact is Obama’s connection to William Ayers has been dissected to death and it comes…
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A liberal in the U.S. Senate
The Agonist is one of my favorite stops when I’m inclined to read other blogs. It is simply one of the best out there. I stopped reading for a while because I felt their vociferous support of Senator John Edwards blinded them to the good points of other candidates. In any case, I stayed away…
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Calamity John
The Los Angeles Times today offered details about a previous post of mine that some people have told me is controversial because I deigned to question Sen. John McCain’s heroism during the Vietnam War. My contention remains that McCain, at least initially, took valuable training and equipment of the American military for granted. But, because…
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McCain, the pot
From the Obama campaign: The current economic crisis demands that we understand John McCain’s attitudes about economic oversight and corporate influence in federal regulation. Nothing illustrates the danger of his approach more clearly than his central role in the savings and loan scandal of the late ’80s and early ’90s. John McCain was accused…
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The Boss
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McCain & the Republicans
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New Yorker magazine: ‘The choice’
In a long article, the New Yorker magazine endorsed Sen. Barack Obama, (D-IL), and made the argument for why Sen. John McCain, (R-AZ), would be the wrong choice to lead the nation at this time: Meanwhile, the nominee, John McCain, played the part of a vaudeville illusionist, asking to be regarded as an apostle of…
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Krugman on Palin’s Reagan quote
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Hockey moms, Joe Sixpack, aw shucks!
At some point last, GOP Vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin declared she was not going to be debating: “I may not answer the questions that either the moderator or you want to hear, but I’m going to talk straight to the American people.” I wish they could have stopped the debate at that point and ushered…
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Maybe in Ohio!
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