Michael O. Allen

Tag: President Barack Obama

  • President Barack Obama’s Farewell Address

    President Barack Obama’s Farewell Address

    Hello Chicago! It’s good to be home! Thank you, everybody! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. It’s good to be home. Thank you. We’re on live TV here, I’ve got to move. You can tell that I’m a lame duck, because nobody is following instructions. Everybody have…

  • President Obama’s Security Speech

    President Obama’s Security Speech

    Remarks by the President on the Administration’s Approach to Counter-terrorism The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release-December 06, 2016 MacDill Air Force Base, Tampa, Florida THE PRESIDENT: Thank you so much! (Applause.) Thank you. Thank you so much, everybody. Thank you. Everybody, please have a seat. Have a seat. Well, thank…

  • Donald Trump’s Noxious Vision

    After Donald Trump’s scary, dark musings last night–laden as it was with lies, threats and his profoundly disturbing vision of what he aims to do as president–a little reflection is in order. Think about it. Is our common public weal more imperiled today than it was in those dark days of 2008? Yet, neither of…

  • The 2013 State of the Union Address

    February 13, 2013 | 1:01:01 | Public Domain Remarks by the President in the State of the Union Address U.S. Capitol Washington, D.C. 9:15 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of Congress, fellow citizens: Fifty-one years ago, John F. Kennedy declared to this chamber that “the Constitution makes us not rivals…

  • SEIU President Mary Kay Henry at the DNC

    CHARLOTTE — The following is a transcript of a speech, as prepared for delivery, by Mary Kay Henry, International President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday, September 4, 2012. Mary Kay Henry International President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Hello, delegates, and hello to my…

  • The 2012 State of the Union

    Remarks by the President in State of the Union Address United States Capitol Washington, D.C. 9:10 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans: Last month, I went to Andrews Air Force Base and welcomed home some of our last troops to serve in Iraq. Together,…

  • A Recurring Nightmare

    The BP Deepwater Horizon catastrophe is a perfect Republican Party trap: Watch as a Democratic administration and Congress drown in the oil disaster while they clean up at the polls. Then Republicans return to office and begin the cycle by laying the bombs that’ll detonate under the next Democratic administration. Does anyone remember Dick Cheney’s…

  • . . . and, War Starts?

    Remember, at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in December no less, President Barack Obama spelled out the conditions under which and reserved for himself the right to wage “Just Wars.”[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3uU_mCNcKM[/youtube] Has Iran, by its nuclear recalcitrance, tripped a condition? This story out of Scotland said some very big munitions are on their way to a…

  • Howell Raines is Neither a ‘Liar’ Nor is He Crazy

    In this Sunday’s Washington Post Op-Ed, he asks questions that have long needed to be asked. Take this one, his first: Why haven’t America’s old-school news organizations blown the whistle on Roger Ailes, chief of Fox News, for using the network to conduct a propaganda campaign against the Obama administration — a campaign without precedent…