David Safier by David Safier Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Bruner successfully thwarted an attempt by Republicans to suppress votes by stopping the registration process on any new registrations with the slightest irregularities. The Supreme Court ruled for her and against the Republicans. As a result, she has had death threats and suspicious packages sent to her … Read more
by David Safier From Asheville Citizen-Times, North Carolina: A dead bear was found dumped this morning on the Western Carolina University campus, draped with a pair of Obama campaign signs, university police said. Maintenance workers reported about 7:45 a.m. finding a 75-pound bear cub dumped at the roundabout near the Catamount statute at the entrance … Read more
by David Safier OK, so Michael Smerconish isn’t a household name outside of Philadelphia where he has a radio show and writes a column. But he’s a Republican voice and proud of it. Until now. I just saw him on Hardball on MSNBC saying he’ll vote for Obama. This, according to Jake Tapper of ABC … Read more
by David Safier Frankly, this is hard to believe — no, unbelievable — but it comes from no less a source than George Packer in the New Yorker, who says Ken Adelman, long time friend of Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz who . . . Campaigned for Goldwater, was hired by Rumsfeld at the Office of … Read more
by David Safier You can’t really blame McCain and Palin for the 30 cars that had their tires slashed outside of an Obama rally in North Carolina. (The story, by the way, is reported in the Fayetteville Observer, not some lefty blog.) Someone slashed the tires of at least 30 vehicles parked outside the Crown … Read more