Author: michael o. allen
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Bush approval ratings
The Public v. McCain When the American public disapproves of Bush’s Presidency more and more each day, why does McCain continue to increase his support of such increasingly unpopular policies and positions? Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin
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Any debate where one of the parties removes their pants is a good debate. We need some pants removing in national politics. So said a commenter regarding this Associated Press story in the Minneapolis StarTribune. Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin
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White Chicks Dig Obama
Fan Club Jake Tapper of ABC News counts the number of young white women professing their adoration of Sen. Obama in Sen. McCain’s latest web ad, called “Hot Chicks Dig Obama”. His count? Four. Just for kicks, I decided to find out whether Tapper was just being selective in his reporting. Four white women might…
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Georgian Nights and Days
A friend elsewhere (on Facebook) criticized my post yesterday about the Caucasus crisis. He said, in part: “with due respect, I’m a bit worried that even avowedly progressive people like you in America seem to hold rather one-sided view of the current South Ossetia crisis: without apparently/admittedly realising that a mirror-image history of our action…
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A Clear Voice
The United States is not speaking with a forked tongue about Russian atrocities in Georgia before the United Nations Security Council. Russia and the U.S. traded hot accusations at the Security Council over Moscow’s aggressive handling of its military operation in Georgia’s breakaway province of South Ossetia and the bombing of Georgia proper. Georgian diplomats…
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No Hillary Roll Call at Convention
The potential for Clinton (both Hillary and Bill) mischief is too great. Bill thinks he knows what’s best for Democrats and the country, and that’s for Hillary to be president. RUSH “the Great Idiot” Limbaugh (speaking alternatively as himself and Bill Clinton): Remember all those times, ladies and gentlemen, I warned you never, ever trust…
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What?
I have a million television stations as part of my Verizon Fios account. But, inexplicably, I don’t get MSNBC. I’ve tried to get to the bottom of this but, as Verizon has the worst customer service of any corporation that has ever existed on the face of the planet, I’m still waiting for a credible…
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Russian Rampage
“If the world is not able to stop Russia here, then Russian tanks and Russian paratroopers can appear in every European capital.”–Alexander Lomaya, secretary of Georgia’s National Security Council I am a great admirer of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (I have that proverbial bridge to sell to anyone who thinks President Dmitri A. Medvedev…
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I'm with Greider
Since reading his ‘Who Will Tell the People’ back in 1993, I’ve been a disciple of William Greider. He is a visionary, an astute observer/analyst of public policies and their consequences. This piece in The Nation magazine is no exception. Economic Free Fall By William Greider,The Nation, July 30, 2008 Washington can act with breathtaking…
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Not the Nadir, Too Early
TPMtv: Dazed and Confused From TalkingPointsMemo.com: Your Daily Politics Video Blog: To us, the presidential race reached a turning point last week when John McCain opted for a campaign of denigration employing racial stereotypes, sexualized talking points for surrogates (Obama as “Internet date”) and copious ridicule. It’s made the curve that much of the media…