Author: michael o. allen
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. . . considering the import of history
King’s “Dream” speech I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great…
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Shades of Nixon
The campaign of John McCain for president of the United States has been lurking in the gutter these past several weeks. Karl Rove’s henchmen, when they took over the faltering McCain campaign, they quickly surmised that they could not win on the issues. The American voters would not trust Republicans to fix the mess the…
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GOP Veepstakes
Word is out this evening that Sen. McCain is finalizing his vice-presidential pick tonight. Because we may know as soon as tomorrow who he’s chosen, it’s now or never for another round of veepstakes. If I were advising McCain, here’s who would be on my suggested short list: Tom Ridge Kay Bailey Hutchinson As a…
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Hillary’s speech
Hillary needed to do three things last night: (1) Tell her supporters not to vote for John McCain (2) Tell her supporters why they should vote Democrat. (3) Tell her supports why they should support Obama, in particular. In my view, Hillary did the first two and didn’t even attempt the third. Her rationale for…
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But I was a POW!
It is obvious in this campaign that you cannot question McCain about anything without him bringing up the fact that he was a prisoner of war in Vietnam. Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin
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A wanderer arrives
When I was a young newspaper reporter (a nerdy one, at that) at The Record in Hackensack, N.J., one of the journalists I looked up to was Michael Powell. Mr. Powell was then at New York Newsday but he had passed through The Record in what was becoming an itinerant career, with stops at Newsday,…
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Joe, himself
Joe Biden in Springfield, IL Sen. Joseph Biden’s remarks in Springfield, Ill., Saturday, after being introduced by Sen. Barack Obama as his vice presidential running mate. Well, it’s great to be here! On the steps of the Old State House in the land of Lincoln. President Lincoln once instructed us to be sure to put…
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Pinochle, anyone?
“Don’t Know Much” TV Ad “Do we really want four more years of the same old tune?” Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin
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Waging a campaign–Two thoughts
Both Frank Rich and Bob Herbert had sound advice for the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama on the Op-ed pages of the New York Times this weekend. Echoing the theme of an essay I’m working on and still hoping to post, Herbert weighed in on Saturday with advice that Obama hew close to economic…
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The war prisoner card
The presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain in recent weeks has brandished his stint as a war prisoner every time anyone deigned to criticize the good senator. The inimitable Maureen Dowd offered a catalog: So it’s hard to believe that John McCain is now in danger of exceeding his credit limit on the equivalent of…