Author: michael o. allen
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A reminder
This is a sample of why you got excited in the first place: One Voice Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin
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An exchange with Bryan Sells on Obama’s VP choice
michael o. allen to Bryan Sells: Today @ 9:18am Good morning. I think you’re wrong but would you post your veepstakes piece? And may I put a link to the New York Times piece in that post? Bryan Sells‘s reply Today @ 9:24am OK. You can certainly add the NYT link. Bryan Sells‘s follow-up to…
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That hero, McCain
The New York Times published a story on Sunday that had me scratching my head. Timesman David D. Kirkpatrick’s piece, Response to 9/11 Offers Outline of McCain Doctrine, is not quite like the usual admiring pieces that we’ve come to expect from the mainstream media about McCain, explaining away obvious and prodigious faults while pumping…
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Yet another veepstakes post
The Democratic world may soon wake up with a text or email from the Obama campaign announcing his choice for VP. Drudge, the NYT, and other media outlets have been abuzz this evening with the story of Obama’s “short list” and impending announcement. The names being floated are Bayh, Biden, Kaine, and Sebelius. Kaine would…
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Balance. Beam!
Photo by Chang W. Lee/The New York Times Shawn Johnson of the U.S. won the gold medal on the balance beam on Tuesday. Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin
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Olympic baseball
The Olympic baseball tournament is getting interesting. The United States Olympic baseball team started very slowly in the tournament, losing to South Korea before beating the Netherlands, then losing in extra-innings to Cuba, only to come back and beat Canada and China. In the China game on Monday things got pretty rough. Matt LaPorta got…
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Saddleback
Like any serious political junkie, I watched the entire Saddleback forum on Saturday night. My assessment, in a nutshell: Obama sounded like Dukakis; McCain sounded like Reagan. If I were a McCainiac, I’d be giddy with excitement. There has been a rope-a-dope meme bouncing around the internet over the last few weeks. Democratic-leaning pundits have…
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October surprise *
Trey Ellis in HuffPo thinks we should be afraid, very afraid of what Republicans might have up their sleeves for October: We taxpayers already have shelled out $100 billion on contractors in Iraq since 2003. They have 180,000 employees in country now building what they had assumed would be permanent bases for a permanent occupation…
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Unknowable McCain
Practically everything the American voters know about Sen. John McCain have been fan notes penned by journalists who act more like his groupies than objective observers. The real McCain is, of course, not the upstanding tower of strength who is going to defend us all from enemies within and without. The real McCain, as regular…
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McCain’s shifts
From The New Republic [John] McCain has spent years manipulating the public’s perception of his stance on abortion and reproductive health. He’s been against overturning Roe v. Wade and he’s been for it; he’s embraced the idea of a pro-choice running mate and, more recently, recoiled from it. It’s no wonder the public is confused.…