Author: michael o. allen
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A Double Standard *
Does The Media Treat Obama & McCain Differently? Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin
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Acknowledging History
Barack Obama at NAACP Annual Conference Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin
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Now, This is Satire!
Satire has to have an element of truth to it, I told a friend a couple of days ago in my argument with people over why the New Yorker magazine cover did not work as satire. I found this piece at Huffingtonpost.com talking about the same subject and using a political cartoon trying to puncture…
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Gate Gate
The Bush Administration’s efforts to prevent Senator Obama from giving a speech in front of the Brandenburg Gate strike me as rather scandalous and worthy of more press coverage here in the States. Cross-posted from Facebook. Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin
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Devastating
That is the only word that comes to my mind regarding the New Yorker magazine cover drawing of Sen. Barack Obama dapping his wife as an American flag burns in the fireplace in a White House with Osama bin Laden’s picture up on the mantelpiece. I don’t know how the New Yorker could have, whatever…
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Get ready to be disappointed.
Gail Collins makes a good point in today’s New York Times. Addressing the growing chorus of folks on the Left who have expressed dismay over Senator Obama’s so-called shift to the center, including the Times’ own Bob Herbert and most recently the Rev. Jesse Jackson, she notes that Obama’s been in the center all along:…
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'Integrity' update
I mean, did John McCain really just try to pass off as a joke his crack about killing Iranians? Are they responding to news of Iranian missile tests? Has no one been listening, or reading the news lately? File photo of an Israeli fighter jet taking off from an air force base. Hasn’t Israel been…
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Mr. Integrity
The truth about John McCain is that he has never cared about anyone but himself. (AP Photo) Republican candidate John McCain has some lipstick wiped from his face after a peck from wife Cindy in Denver. He’s a guy who has gotten by on the barest minimum effort as others have paved the way for…
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I wish . . .
Sports Illustrated would stop doing the insane poll where Major League Ballplayers vote Derek Jeter the most over-rated player in baseball. Year in, year out, he shows again and again how it’s done. On the field. Where it matters. (AP Photo) New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter makes an off-balance throw to second base to…
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iddybud journal
Right is Wrong My Facebook friend, Jude Nagurney Camwell, posted this video on Facebook. Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin