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October 30th at 12:03PM

Barack Obama's Other Terrorist Pal, the Palestinian One

POSTED BY: Mary Phillips-Sandy

Surely you've heard, there's a hot new Obama terrorist pal in town. (William Ayers? So passe. Sorry, guy. Even John McCain called you washed up.)

Get with it! All the cool zealots are moving on to Barack Obama's second wild-eyed buddy, this crazy honcho of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He and Barack Obama palled around real hard back in the day, thinking up ways to destroy Israel and k-i-s-s-i-n-g.

It's true! Even Sarah Palin says so...

"It seems that there is yet another radical professor from the neighborhood who spent a lot of time with Barack Obama going back several years," Palin said at an event in Bowling Green, Ohio. "This is important because his associate, Rashid Khalidi... in addition to being a political ally of Barack Obama, he's a former spokesperson for the Palestinian Liberation Organization." ...

Khalidi is a leading scholar of Middle Eastern studies at [elitist Ivy League university!!1!] Columbia, and he was a contemporary of Obama's while on the faculty of the University of Chicago. Khalidi has been a harsh critic of U.S. foreign policy toward Israel and has accused the country of "occupying" Palestinian territories. But he has denied acting as a PLO spokesman during a seven-year period in the 1970s and 1980s.

Khalidi said Wednesday, "I am not speaking to the media at this time, and certainly not until this idiot wind passes."

"Idiot wind," eh, "Professor" Khalidi? Sounds mighty un-American to these ears. And these ears don't run.

Now, if only there were some kind of video evidence proving that Khalidi and Obama were once in a room together, preferably a room where a third party said something controversial...

In April, the Los Angeles Times published an article about a going-away dinner for Khalidi that Obama attended in Chicago, Illinois, in 2003. Khalidi was leaving to become a professor at Columbia.

The paper reported that a young Palestinian-American woman recited a poem at the farewell party that accused the Israeli government of terrorism for its treatment of Palestinians and was highly critical of U.S. support of Israel.

The McCain campaign accused the Los Angeles paper of "intentionally suppressing" a videotape it obtained from that dinner and demanded that it release the footage. The Times said it won't release the footage because a reporter promised a source that the video would not be made public.

Asked why the McCain campaign was bringing the matter up six months after the article appeared, an aide replied, "Because we are one week away from potentially electing Barack Obama."

Exactly. Thank you, anonymous all-American McCain aide.

Now that's a real patriot's reasoning.

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I won't be voting for Obama after seeing this site: obamaswords.blogspot.com

by cwmnvtr November 3rd at 7:03AM
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July 24th at 1:40PM

The Middle East Responds to Barack Obama's Middle East Visit

POSTED BY: CubbyChaser


Barack Obama's trip to the Middle East has gotten plenty of media coverage here in America, especially since it's been an opportunity for the media to cover the media's coverage of Barack Obama's trip to the Middle East.

Meanwhile, over in the Middle East, the Middle Eastern media has been doing its own coverage, and today the BBC has a summary (conveniently translated into English for this monolingual American). It seems there has been some confusion!

From Bahrain's Al-Wasat newspaper...

Obama's tour is not exploratory, but rather aims to send a message to American domestic opinion that he is reasserting US administrations' traditional priorities on Middle Eastern issues.

Well, sure. You don't need to be surprised or upset by that. Overseas trips by politicians are always intended to impress Americans, particularly during election season. Perhaps this is a cultural difference. It has to do with a thing we call public opinion polls.

From the Palestinian Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah...

What would have happened if Obama put on his head a Palestinian keffiyeh [chequered scarf] in the same way that he twice put on the Jewish skullcap? This would have been balanced behaviour, but he did not do it and will never do it.

The reason for this is that his 15-hour visit was put on to demonstrate his solidarity and support for Israel's policy.

Again, what we have here is a cultural misunderstanding. Obama didn't avoid wearing a keffiyeh because he was trying to make a political statement.

He just knows keffiyehs are soooooo last season.

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