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
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The right-wing has a long running Swiftboat smear campaign against Barack Obama suggesting that he is not an American citizen and not a Christian. Obama is an American citizen – get over it – and is a Christian. Not that this should matter, since the Constitution provides that there "shall be no … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: In an earlier post, David Safier wrote that General Colin Powell, after a lengthy deliberation, endorsed Barack Obama for president on Sunday. But it was much more than that, as Michael Bryan touched upon in his post about Powell’s MSNBC interview (see video). Powell delivered a stinging indictment of his long-time friend, … Read more
Powell not only had endorsed Obama, he is speaking out forcefully against the kind of political smears on which McCain has increasingly based his campaign. Every thinking conservative is going to have to think again before giving McCain-Palin their vote with talk like this in the media from someone as widely respected as Powell: