Charles Fried - advisor to John McCain -endorses and votes for Obama!

[Bill Roy]

Charles Fried, an advisor to John McCain has endorsed and voted by absentee ballot for Barack Obama.

The main reason given is McCain's choice of Palin as Vice Presidential candidate.

Link to story here

[Donald Aquilano]

Provide a more credible source than the Huffington Post.

[Gerry]

Provide a more credible source than the Huffington Post.

Um, name a credible source you would trust?

Seems the party line is all media is liberal.

[Bill Roy]

How about the Boston Globe!

Link

[Gerry]

I don't know, Billbo.

Can you have the 73 year old do a head stand while announcing this while video-taping?

I too am very suspicious.

Then I would want a DNA sample to make sure this is not a stand in double.

[Donald Aquilano]

How about the Boston Globe!

Link

A little more credible but not much since its owned by the New York Times, a liberal rag sheet. It still doesn't matter though because it doesn't change who I'm voting for. Nobody can call themselves a true conservative and back the very liberal Obama.

[Bill Roy]

Doc Com - tvg (tick very good)

bd77, just wait to get the news then when Fox decides to list him as a traitor. I would point out to you though that I am sure Charles Fried being a legal expert might just take the Boston Globe to court if this wasn't true, but as he has declared it publicly it will be all over the news soon, just thought I would bring breaking news here. (Oh yes, and gloat about it at the same time of course! )

[stock_post]

if a guy who is an advisor to some one and supports the other candidate.
He must be very credible guy.
Most trusted advisor on earth.

[Gerry]

He must be very credible guy.

Um, you need to read this gentleman's bio.

Quite fascinating although it would not change your mind.

Say he is not credible is akin to calling everyone on this forum credible.

[500,000]

Love Wins

[Gerry]

Its very sad how so many CLAMIED they where republican and coned convinced the republican party to pick Senator McCain to run as a the leading candidate.

If you read WHY they are bolting, it all points back to the selection of Palin.

Including myself.

[Bill Roy]

Gregcyber, I must remind you that the McCain/Palin ticket is the first in American history where 'both' have been found guilty of ethics violations!

Stock Post please, as Doc Com suggests, do read the bio of whom this thread is about, then you may change your mind concerning his credibility.

[Area52]

Charles Fried, an advisor to John McCain has endorsed and voted by absentee ballot for Barack Obama.

The main reason given is McCain's choice of Palin as Vice Presidential candidate.

Link to story here

Why is it suprising? He is a lawyer and Harvard grad and teacher of constitutional law.
Obama is a lawyer and Harvard grad and teacher of constitutional law.
Sounds like he voted out of spite. Notice that he "did not" say he voted for Obama because he thought he was the man for the job.
I think he wanted publicity.

[500,000]

Love Wins

[Bill Roy]

Gregcyber, just wait 11 days and it will all be over. I guess you will just be one of the minority upset that democracy has prevailed in the USA.

[Gerry]

Why is it suprising? He is a lawyer and Harvard grad and teacher of constitutional law.
Obama is a lawyer and Harvard grad and teacher of constitutional law.
Sounds like he voted out of spite. Notice that he "did not" say he voted for Obama because he thought he was the man for the job.
I think he wanted publicity.

Yeah, who the hell does the he think he is anyways?

It not like Fried's government service includes a year as Special Assistant to the Attorney General of the United States (1984-85) and a consulting relationship to that office (1983), as well as advisory roles with the Department of Transportation (1981-83) and President Ronald Reagan (1982). In October 1985, President Reagan appointed Fried as Solicitor General of the United States. Fried had previously served as Deputy Solicitor General and Acting Solicitor General. As Solicitor General, he represented the Reagan Administration before the Supreme Court in 25 cases. In 1989, when Reagan left office, Fried returned to Harvard Law School.

Shes is like the Girl next door (not related to sex) and not a greased palm for big money.

Nope, I don't see it neither.

I am surrounded by nothing but hockey mom's and the girl's next door that have a $150,000.00 shopping spree at Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue and travel with the make-up artist of "Dancing with the Stars" paying her $13,500 for one weeks work in September and $22,800 for the first two weeks in October.

I love my neighborhood.

Everyone is, you know, so down home country looking.

[Area52]

No big deal. They have plenty of backup support.

Lawyers for McCain National Steering Committee

Co-Chairs, Lawyers for McCain National Steering Committee
Griffin B. Bell – former Attorney General and Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
Brigida Benitez – Co-Chair, Republican National Lawyers Association
R. Ted Cruz – former Solicitor General, State of Texas
Maureen E. Mahoney – former Deputy Solicitor General
Deborah P. Majoras – former Chairman, Federal Trade Commission
Larry D. Thompson – former Deputy Attorney General
Richard E. Wiley – former Chairman, Federal Communications Commission
Members, Lawyers for McCain National Steering Committee
Cesar L. Alvarez – CEO, Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Howard H. Baker, Jr. – former United States Senator and Ambassador to Japan
Brian Ballard – Partner, Smith & Ballard
William P. Barr – former Attorney General
Charles H. Bell – First Vice President, Republican National Lawyers Association
Lillian R. BeVier – David & Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Virginia
J. Caleb Boggs III – President, Republican National Lawyers Association
Rachel Brand – former Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Policy
Reginald Brown – former Special Assistant to the President and Associate White House Counsel
Michael A. Carvin – former Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division and Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel
William T. Coleman, Jr. – former Secretary, Department of Transportation
Charles J. Cooper – former Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel
N. Lee Cooper – former President, American Bar Association
Edward F. Cox – Partner, Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler
Susan A. Creighton – former Director, Bureau of Competition, Federal Trade Commission
Richard Cullen – former Attorney General, Virginia and U.S. Attorney, Eastern District, Virginia
Arthur B. Culvahouse, Jr. – former White House Counsel
John C. Danforth – former United States Senator and Ambassador to the United Nations
Rod A. DeArment – former Deputy Secretary of Labor
Carol E. Dinkins – former Deputy Attorney General
Miguel A. Estrada – former Assistant to the Solicitor General
Boris Feldman – Partner, Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich, and Rosati
Lawrence D. Finder – former U.S. Attorney, Southern District, Texas
Charles Fried – former Solicitor General
Sandra S. Froman – attorney, Arizona
Rudolph Giuliani – former Mayor, New York City
Thomas Z. Hayward, Jr. – Partner, Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLP
Carla Hills – former Secretary, Department of Housing and Urban Development and U.S. Trade Representative
Asa Hutchinson – former Director, Drug Enforcement Agency and Under Secretary, Border and Transportation Security, Department of Homeland Security, Former Congressman, Arkansas
Frank Keating – former Governor of Oklahoma
Willliam J. Kilberg – former Solicitor of Labor
Peter N. Kirsanow – former Member, National Labor Relations Board
Christopher Landau – Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
David G. Leitch – Group Vice-President and General Counsel, Ford Motor Company
Richard D. McLellan – Senior Counsel, Dykema Gossett PLLC
Edwin Meese – former Attorney General
Thomas W. Merrill –former Deputy Solicitor General
Eileen J. O'Connor – former Assistant Attorney General, Tax Division
Theodore B. Olson – former Solicitor General
Catherine O'Neil – former National Director, Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force
R. Hewitt Pate – former Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division
Patrick F. Philbin – former Associate Deputy Attorney General
Thomas R. Phillips – former Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Texas
Alan Charles Raul – former General Counsel, Department of Agriculture and General Counsel, Office of Management and Budget
Edward R. Reines – Partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Raquel Rodriguez – former General Counsel to former Florida Governor Jeb Bush
G. Scott Romney – Partner, Honigman, Miller, Schwartz and Cohn LLP
Richard A. Rosenbaum – President, Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Warren Rudman – former United States Senator
Victor E. Schwartz – General Counsel, American Tort Reform Association
John H. Shenefield– former Associate Attorney General
John J. Soroko – Chairman and CEO, Duane Morris
Michael S. Steele – former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland
Jay B. Stevens – former U.S. Attorney, District of Columbia and Deputy Counsel to the President
S. Shepard Tate – former President, American Bar Association
George J. Terwilliger, III – former Deputy Attorney General
Eugene C. Thomas – former President, American Bar Association
Fred Thompson – former United States Senator
James R. Thompson – former Governor of Illinois
Richard Thornburgh – former Attorney General and Governor of Pennsylvania
Dan K. Webb – former U.S. Attorney, Northern District, Illinois
William H. Webster – former Director, Central Intelligence Agency, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit
Richard S. Williamson – former Assistant Secretary of State

[Poker]

It still doesn't matter though because it doesn't change who I'm voting for. Nobody can call themselves a true conservative and back the very liberal Obama.

A true conservative wouldn't vote for McCain/Palin either

[Gerry]

And the best political platform money can buy. Quite a "who's who" of who the bailout package benefited most.

McCain Attacks Wall Street Greed—While 83 Wall Street Lobbyists Work for His Campaign

http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/...treet_aig.html

McCain has been quick with fiery, populist-tinged speeches. But one thing has been missing: any acknowledgment that McCain's own campaign has been loaded with the type of people he's been denouncing. (The McCain campaign did not respond to a request for comment; we will update the post if they do.) As Mother Jones previously reported, former Senator Phil Gramm, McCain's onetime campaign chairman, used a backroom maneuver in late 2000 to slip into law a bill that kept credit default swaps unregulated. These financial instruments greased the way to the subprime meltdown that has led to today's economic crisis. Several of McCain's most senior campaign aides have lobbiedfor Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. And the Democratic National Committee, using publicly available records, has identified 177 lobbyists working for the McCain campaign as either aides, policy advisers, or fundraisers.

Among these 83 lobbyists are McCain's chief political adviser, Charlie Black (JP Morgan, Washington Mutual Bank, Freddie Mac, Mortgage Bankers Association of America); McCain's national finance co-chairman, Wayne Berman (AIG, Blackstone, Credit Suisse, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac); the campaign's congressional liaison, John Green (Carlyle Group, Citigroup, Icahn Associates, Fannie Mae); McCain's veep vetter, Arthur Culvahouse (Fannie Mae); and McCain's transition planning chief, William Timmons Sr. (Citigroup, Freddie Mac, Vanguard Group).

Phil Anderson: American Council of Life Insurers, Aetna, AIG, New York Life, MassMutual, VISA

Rebecca Anderson: Aegon, American Council of Life Insurers, Cigna, Barclays, Credit Suisse First Boston, HSBC

Stanton Anderson: The Debt Exchange

David Beightol: Allstate, Amerigroup, Charles Schwab, HSBC

Rhonda Bentz: VISA

Wayne Berman: American Council of Life Insurers, AIG, Americhoice, Shinsei Bank, Blackstone, Carlyle Group, Broidy Capital Management, Credit Suisse Securities, Highstar Capital, VISA, Ameriquest Mortgage, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Fitch Ratings

Charlie Black: JP Morgan, Washington Mutual Bank, Freddie Mac, Mortgage Bankers Association of America, National Association of Mortgage Brokers

Judy Black: Colorado Credit Union League, Genworth Financial, Bay Harbour Management, Merrill Lynch

Kirk Blalock: Credit Union National Association, Financial Executives International, American Insurance Association, Mutual of Omaha, Zurich Financial Service Group, Fannie Mae, Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco

Carlos Bonilla: Financial Services Roundtable, Freddie Mac

Christine Burgeson: Citigroup

Mark Buse: Freddie Mac, Goldman Sachs, Manufacturers Life Insurance Company

Nicholas Calio: Citigroup, Managed Fund Association, Fannie Mae, Merrill Lynch, The Investment Company Institute, TIAA-CRE, Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association

Ben Nighthorse Campbell: Amscot Financial Corporation, Community Financial Services Association, Fidelity National Financial

Andrew Cantor: American Insurance Association, Merrill Lynch

Alberto Cardenas: Fannie Mae

James Courter: Goldman Sachs, Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette, Investment Company Institute, Merrill Lynch

David Crane: Financial Services Roundtable, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte & Touche, KPMG, Ernst & Young, Bank of America, Association of Corporate Credit Unions, Freddie Mac

Dan Crippen: Merrill Lynch, National Multi-Housing Council

Arthur Culvahouse: Fannie Mae

Bryan Cunningham: Arch Capital Group

Alfonse D'Amato: AIG, Freddie Mac

Doug Davenport: Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, Goldman Sachs, VISA

Ashley Davis: Prudential Financial, American Financial Group, American Premier Underwriters, Great American Insurance Company

Mimi Dawson: MassMutual

Melissa Edwards: Freddie Mac, National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, Access to Capital Coalition

Chris Fidler: American Bankers Association, Milcom Venture Partners, National Association Real Estate Investment Trusts

Samuel Geduldig: American Bankers Association, American Institute of CPAs, America Gains, Berkshire Hathaway, Consumer Bankers Association, Ernst & Young, Financial Services Roundtable, Investment Company Institute, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Prudential Financial, Sovereign Investment Council, Fidelity Investments, FMR Corp.

Benjamin Ginsberg: Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance, AIG Technical Services

David Girard-Dicarlo: American Financial Group, American Premier Underwriters

Juleanna Glover Weiss: RJI Capital, American Institute of CPAs, BNP Paribas, Ernst & Young, PriceWaterhouseCoopers

Slade Gorton: Allstate Insurance, Hannan Armstrong Capital

Phil Gramm: UBS Americas

John Green: Laredo National Bank, Alternative Investment Management Association, AIG, Blackstone Group, Carlyle Group, Citigroup, Credit Suisse Group, Fannie Mae, Icahn Associates, FMR Corp., AFLAC, VISA

Janet Grissom: American Institute of CPAs, NYSE, Merrill Lynch

Kristen Gullott: San Diego Credit Union

Kent Hance: Stanford Financial Group, Municipal Capital Markets Group, Inc.

Vicki Hart: American Financial Services Association, Citigroup, Investment Company Institute, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, New York Stock Exchange, VISA, Carlyle Group, Credit Suisse, Federal Home Loan Bank of Indianapolis, Goldman Sachs, Stanford Group, Lloyd's of London, National City Corp.

Richard Hohlt: Capmark Financial Group, Fannie Mae, JP Morgan Chase and Co., Student Loan Marketing Association, Washington Mutual, Guaranty Bank & Trust, Peachtree Settlement Funding, Dime Savings Bank of New York

Gaylord Hughey: Heartland Security Insurance Group

Kate Hull: Credit Union National Association, Fannie Mae, Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, Zurich Financial Services, American Insurance Association, Financial Executives International

James Hyland: American Insurance Association, Seattle Home Loan Bank, Self Help Credit Union, National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees, Merrill Lynch, Mortgage Investors Corp., Federal Home Loan Bank of Indianapolis, Freddie Mac, New York Stock Exchange, Citigroup, VISA

Aleix Jarvis: Credit Union National Association, Fannie Mae, Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, Financial Executives International, Mutual of Omaha, American Insurance Association, Zurich Financial Services

Greg Jenner: American Council of Life Insurers, JG Wentworth, UBS, VISA, PriceWaterhouseCoopers

Frank Keating: American Council of Life Insurers

Steven Kuykendall: California Bankers Association

William Lesher: Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Commerce Ventures, Rabobank International

Thomas Loeffler: Citigroup, Fannie Mae, Investment Company Institute, World Savings and Loan Association, United Services Automobile Association (USAA)

Kelly Lugar: RJI Capital Strategies

Peter Madigan: Arthur Andersen, Bank of New York, Broadridge Securities Processing, Charles Schwab, Deloitte and Touche, Goldman Sachs, International Employee Stock Option Coalition, Mastercard, NYSE, Fannie Mae, Merrill Lynch, PNC Bank

Mary Mann: MassMutual

Paul Martino: Morgan Stanley, Baker Tilly

Jana McKeag: Venture Catalyst

Alison McSlarrow: Fannie Mae, Hartford

Mike Meece: Georgetown Partners

David Metzner: Ernst & Young, Harbinger Capital Investments, Prudential, Public Financial Management, Western Union

Susan Molinari: Freddie Mac, American Land Title Association, Association of Consumer Credit Unions, Beacon Capital Partners, College Loan Corp, Coventry First, E-Trade, Financial Services Roundtable, Rent-A-Center

John Moran: Cerberus Capital Management, American Council of Life Insurers, Accenture

John Napier: Freddie Mac

Susan Nelson: AIG, San Antonio Credit Union

Paul Otellini: Ernst & Young, Financial Services Forum

Steve Perry: Charles Schwab, Hoover Partners, HSBC, National Stock Exchange

Nancy Pfotenhauer: American Land Title Association, Mortgage Bankers Association

Elise Pickering-Finley: Credit Suisse, DE Shaw, Hartford Financial Services, Research In Motion, Retail Industry Lenders Association, URL Mutual

James Pitts: Advanced Association for Life Underwriting, AETNA, American Council of Life Insurers, AIG, Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers, Debt Advisory International, Financial Services Coordinating Council, GE Financial Assurance, Hartford Life, Jefferson Pilot Financial, Kenwood Investments, MassMutual, Mutual of Omaha, New York Life, UNUM Provident, VISA, PMI Group

Tim Powers: AP Capital, Genworth Financial, Retail Industry Lenders Association, E-LOAN, General Electric Mortgage Insurance

Walter Price: Wachovia

Sloan Rappoport: Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Group, Inc. (FBR), Trafelet Delta Funds

Hans Rickhoff: Capital One, Investment Company Institute, United Services Automobile Association (USAA)

Kathleen Shanahan: New York Stock Exchange

Andrew Shore: Accenture, Retail Industry Lenders Association, Barclays, Bond Market Association, Credit Suisse, TPG Capital

Katie Stahl: Alliance for Investment Transparency, Ares Management, Fairfax Financial Holdings, Uhlmann Financial Group

Milly Stanges: TIAA-CREF

Aquiles Suarez: Fannie Mae

Don Sundquist: Freddie Mac, The Hartford

Peter Terpeluk: JP Morgan Chase, Ernst & Young, Prudential

Fred Thompson: Equitas

Jeri Thompson: American Insurance Association

John Timmons: National Association of Federal Credit Unions

William Timmons Sr.: American Council of Life Insurers, Citigroup, Dun & Bradstreet, Freddie Mac, Vanguard Group

Vin Weber: Agstar Financial Services, AKT Investment Corp., American Institute of CPAs, Ernst & Young, Freddie Mac, Louis Dreyfus Corp, PriceWaterhouseCoopers

Jeffery Weiss: JP Morgan

Tony Williams: Russell Investment Group, American Life Inc., Northwestern Mutual

[JuniperPark]

I just heard on the radio that the head honchos of McCain's campaign consider it over, the infighting and fingerpointing about who killed the campaign has begun, and resumes have already been sent. Sounds like it's over to me.