Michael O. Allen

Tag: politics

  • ‘The Cool, Cool River’

    Moves like a fist through traffic Anger and no one can heal it Shoves a little bump into the momentum It’s just a little lump But you feel it In the creases and the shadows With a rattling deep emotion The cool, cool river Sweeps the wild, white ocean Yes boss, the government handshake Yes…

  • Michelle Obama Rocks the House

    September 4, 2012 Charlotte, NC–Transcript of first lady Michelle Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention, as prepared for delivery: Thank you so much, Elaine…we are so grateful for your family’s service and sacrifice…and we will always have your back. Over the past few years as First Lady, I have had the extraordinary privilege of…

  • Aspiration

    Wyclef Jean–“If I Was President [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pq_3OheqzU[/youtube] Election time is coming If I was president, I’d get elected on Friday, assasinated on Saturday, and buried on Sunday. If I was president… If I was president An old man told me, instead of spending billions on the war, we can use some of that money, in the…

  • Tortured Answers

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  • Elizabeth Edwards’ Lies

    Roger Simon of the Politico asks some pertinent questions of Elizabeth Edwards. Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin

  • DE KLERK—WHITE HOPE

    By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer | Sunday, April 3, 1994 The scenes are stunning: blacks lustily cheering apartheid scion Frederik Willem de Klerk as he campaigns for re-election to the presidency of South Africa. The happy candidate obliges by donning Zulu tribal hats, carrying spears and cowhide shields. “I’m white,” he told…

  • Authenticity

    John Edwards had the right message both times when he ran for the presidency. The problem was that he himself seemed fake. The harder he sold himself, the less I was willing to buy. One of the things he sold hardest was this idea that he had a wholesome family. And when it turned that…

  • A shameful passage

    The United States Supreme Court illegitimately installed George W. Bush as president of the United States after the 2000 elections. Boy George was going to while away his time in office, rewarding friends in politics and the oil and defense industries with rich contracts. That was why Dick Cheney held those meetings with energy interests…

  • Men’s laws for women’s bodies

    Zina Saunders did this piece to accompany an article in The Nation magazine. Ordinarily, it would carry her byline but I do not want attribute to her my own thoughts on this issue. My thoughts, such as they are, are unformed and unsophisticated, incoherent even. Try this: Isn’t it time we men stop manifesting our…

  • Freyne exits stage right

    Peter Freyne, R.I.P I am not familiar with Seven Days, the publication that Peter Freyne last worked for, but I don’t believe that’s the paper he worked for when I toiled as a general assignment reporter at the Burlington Free Press from 1988 to 1990. I was always wary of him but, since I did…