OT: Another disgruntled ex-employee?

Yeah right. You think maybe he's black, and that's why he's switching
camps?


http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/10/24/reagan-appointee-and-recent-mccain-adviser-charles-fried-supports-obama.aspx

Reagan Appointee and (Recent) McCain Adviser Charles Fried Supports
Obama

Charles Fried, a professor at Harvard Law School, has long been one of
the most important conservative thinkers in the United States. Under
President Reagan, he served, with great distinction, as Solicitor
General of the United States. Since then, he has been prominently
associated with several Republican leaders and candidates, most
recently John McCain, for whom he expressed his enthusiastic support
in January.

This week, Fried announced that he has voted for Obama-Biden by
absentee ballot. In his letter to Trevor Potter, the General Counsel
to the McCain-Palin campaign, he asked that his name be removed from
the several campaign-related committees on which he serves. In that
letter, he said that chief among the reasons for his decision "is the
choice of Sarah Palin at a time of deep national crisis."

Fried is exceptionally thoughtful and principled; his vote for Obama
is especially noteworthy.

--Cass. R. Sunstein

UPDATE: Fried writes to TNR: I admire Senator McCain and was glad to
help in his campaign, and to be listed as doing so; but when I
concluded that I must vote for Obama for the reason stated in my
letter, I felt it wrong to appear to be recommending to others a vote
that I was not prepared to cast myself. So it was more of an erasure
than an affirmation.
.

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