Author: michael o. allen
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Jew Baiting
This deserves much more attention than it’s getting. Congressman Steve Cohen is Jewish. He represents the majority-black district in Memphis, Tennessee, vacated by Harold Ford in 2006. Cohen is among the House’s most liberal members, and he recently gained some notoriety for getting Congress to apologize for slavery and Jim Crow. Cohen is being challenged…
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Oh, Paris!
Paris Hilton Responds to McCain Ad The ad opens with Obama making his speech in front of 200,000 Berliners, which according to John McCain, is a bad thing. The chant Obama! Obama! is piped in to the strains of some music. There’s a montage of old people and things, including the Golden Girls and Tales…
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A Good Story
I am a regular reader of Newsweek magazine. Most of the time, I don’t like what I read in there. I find its journalism often sloppy, if not downright dishonest. The fact is, I read it through gritted teeth most of the time. For instance, I think they’re highly tilted toward John McCain in this…
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Compare and Contrast
Obama: National Priority Script: John McCain. He’s been in Washington for 26 years. And as gas prices soared and dependence on oil exploded, McCain was voting against alternative energy, against higher mileage standards. Barack Obama. He’ll make energy independence an urgent national priority, raise mileage standards, fast-track technology for alternative fuels. A thousand dollar tax…
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Evan Bayh and the L-word.
There has been a lot of buzz lately about Sen. Evan Bayh’s chances of winding up at Obama’s VP. Along with that buzz has come a lot of grumbling from the NetRoots about Bayh’s centrism and DLC past. That makes today’s post from stathead Nate Silver a must-read. Money quote: Bayh is considerably more liberal…
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A question for McCain's fans in the press corps
What About the Curve? By Josh Marshall, 08.04.08 — 11:30AM Out of general fondness, the Washington press corps (which is not just a phrase but a definable community of people) has for almost a decade graded John McCain on a curve, especially in the last eighteen months when he’s slipped perceptibly. Now, in response to…
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Political news roundup
On His 47th Birthday, Obama Is All Business CBS News (CHICAGO) – It’s Barack Obama’s 47th birthday, but from his campaign schedule you wouldn’t know it. Obama will hit the trail today to kick off what the campaign is calling “Energy Week. Obama proposes tapping oil reserves to drive down gas prices AP LANSING, Mich.…
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A good Obama comebacker
“Pocket” TV Ad Obama unveils energy plan, new attacks on McCain (CNN) — Barack Obama’s campaign released a television ad Monday that calls for a windfall profits tax and accuses John McCain of being in the pocket of big oil. The ad charges that major oil companies have donated $2 million to McCain’s campaign and…
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A question that needs to be asked
The former New York City Public Advocate Mark Green (and a man who has run every office under sun in New York State) asks a pertinent question: What about McCain’s character? By MARK GREEN, Monday, August 4th 2008 Pundits on the the talk shows say that the ’08 election is all about Barack Obama: Can…