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Oh look at the leftwingnuts jump for joy at this revelation of a donation from "McCain to Khalidi!" LOL

First of all, it wasn't a personal contribution.

Second of all, the donation was given to an association promoting democratic elections in Palestine.

I guess we'll have to wait and see all the lovely things said at the Obama-Ayers-Dorhn-Khalidi dine-around when the transcript gets released... LOL!

Obviously, McCain is frustrated and angry.He is not addressing issues that bother American people.Instead he is making up conspiracy theories,-ve ads and issues outside America(Iraq, Iran, Turckey).These are not what is uppermost
in people's minds.If he says Khalid is a
terrorist, he funded him and this makes
McCain also a terrorist. American hero
in Vietnam?...anyone ever heard of "carpet bombing" that killed thousands of innocents...a crime commited in the name of America.When the full & true history of Vietnam is told, some people should face war crimes tribunal!

So McCain is now officially a conspiracy theorist? This is sad. The election can't come soon enough so I don't have to see any more of these mudfights. Did you see the Elizabeth Dole ad against Kay Hagan? This is so embarrassing for Republicans. Eisenhower must be spinning in his grave.

Several comments on this story and others seem to want to reach back to college-age activities. If I had a dollar for every future national politician that did things during college that they wouldn't want to highlight in their future campaigns, I would be able to spend this week in Aruba, instead of sitting around Oregon, waiting for the rest of the nation to finish voting...

Both Bush's have 'colorful' college stories. Both Clinton's have 'colorful' college stories. McCain, Biden, Obama and Palin all have 'colorful' college stories. In the 1850's, Abraham Lincoln participated in the ancestor sport to professional wrestling, before becoming a lawyer. Everyone lives their 'wild' days, and most learn from them. Let's try to evaluate our current presidential choices by what they have done in the last eight years or so, not the last 48 years.

McCain Funded Work Of Palestinian His Campaign Hopes To Tie To Obama

During the 1990s, while he served as chairman of the International Republican Institute (IRI), McCain distributed several grants to the Palestinian research center co-founded by Khalidi, including one worth half a million dollars.

Enough said.

The Palestinians think Obama is on their side. The Israelis think Obama is on their side. I'm VERY interested to see how this plays out.

Did you hear? France supports Obama for president!!!!!!!!!!! Now we won't even have to wave our own white flag, France will do it for us, as they always do!!!!!

Unity? A president that calls his own grandparents "just old white folks", goes to a church where the preacher spouts anti white american rhetoric, a wife that could not fit in at college "because she was black" and wanted all blacks there to share her views, this is "UNITY"?

The amount of ignorance people proudly put on full display here ALMOST makes me really ashamed to be an American, but then I see that the majority of the comments are well informed and increasingly so across every news site, and seeing Obama ahead across the polls reassures me that the ignorant monkeys aren't as large of a percentage as I thought.

Maybe they have video of an 8 year old Obama running up and placing the firebombs on the doorsteps too.....

give me a break.....

I have a feeling, if Obama wins this election on Tuesday, it won't be the end of the crying by McCain.....he'll still be in denial and arguing he is going to win this on January 20th, 2009!!

Obama and Ayers funneled $70,000 to Khalidi's Arab American Action Network through the Woods Fund.

Obama had a fairly close relationship with Khalidi, dining at his home, soaking up his ideas; it's even said that Khalidi babysat Obama's children.

Bottom line: Obama is very comfortable with the likes of Khalidi, Ayers, and Wright. More importantly, they all know and support him wholeheartedly. Well, maybe not Wright so much since he got thrown under the bus as politically inconvenient...

A couple of items:

-- Sen. McCain seems to have a more intimate relationship with Rashid Khalidi than Sen. Obama through McCain's International Republican Institute. Money passed hands. Only words passed between Obama and Khalidi. And perhaps a plate of dinner rolls.

-- Gov. Palin was a journalism major at one or more of the many colleges she attended over the years. She even worked as a journalist. I guess she forgot that if a journalist burns a confidential source, and the word gets around, that's the end of future confidential sources ever coming forward. And since the potentially damaging Obama-Khalidi information contained in the tape was reported months ago, claims of an L.A. Times coverup are specious. I guess the governor was busy practicing her beauty queen runway walk when she should have been in a class discussion of the issue.

Oh, well. Tuesday awaits.

John McCain has supported Professor Rashid Khalidi more than Barack Obama has. Both disagree with many of Khalidi's comments, but it is important to note that Professor Khalidi is an american scholar who has a constitutional right to his point of view.

The International Republican Institute–long and ably chaired by John McCain and headed by McCain’s close friend, the capable Lorne Craner–has taken an interest in West Bank matters. The IRI funded an ambitious project, called the Palestine Center, that Khalidi helped to support. Khalidi served on the Center’s board of directors. The goal of that project, shared by Khalidi and McCain, was the promotion of civic consciousness and engagement and the development of democratic values in the West Bank.

What is most disturbing about the current rantings of the McCain campaign is the premise that anyone with a different point of view is a terrorist and should be shunned. This is the fundamental reason why americans are not responding to McCain's divisive campaign. We WANT to be one, we WANT to find common ground, we WANT to unite.

So does Barack Obama. In the face of absurd claims about his relationship with Ayers, Khalidi, Wright, he has steadfastly refuses to focus on Keating, Liddy, Hagee, Timmons (head of McCAin's transistion government and Saddam Hussein's Washington lobbyist.) Why? Because Barack Obama wants to unite America.

We're all tired of divisiveness. Americans love and embrace our cultural and ethnic diversity. That's why Barack Obama will be the next President of the United States.

I wish that the people on this blog had done as much research on the candidates as myself. McCain has a paper trail that you can follow. He served our country and was tortured so all you idiots on this blog have the freedom of speech to say all these ugly things. I would like to see you spend one month in solitary confinement with torture everyday and see how you'd fair.. As for Obama, he has no paper trail. No one knows much about him except what he writes in his books which have about 5 years of his young adult life missing. Probably due to the cocaine he was abusing. If he was poor and goofed around in high school, how did he get into the most prestigious schools like Harvard and Columbia? The thing that scares me is the fact that he has had so many friends and mentors that have radical views. Rev. Wright(who hates America and was Obama's mentor and spiritual advisor who he said he could no more denounce than he could his white grandmother and then he did when things got rough) Bill Ayers, a radical domestic terrorists who bombed ur Capitol Building, the Pentagon, the New York police dept. and then launched Obama's campaign in his living room. Tony Rezko, a felon, who is now in prison for shady real estate deals which helped Obama purchase his 1.3 million dollar house at a discount. Now Khalidi who was Yassar Arafat's(killed american diplomats) advisor. This won't help our relations with Isreal either.
Do you see a pattern here??? I think the tape might reveal just how chummy Obama has been with all of these people who just happen to live in his neighborhood..

McCain Funded Work Of Palestinian His Campaign Hopes To Tie To Obama

During the 1990s, while he served as chairman of the International Republican Institute (IRI), McCain distributed several grants to the Palestinian research center co-founded by Khalidi, including one worth half a million dollars.

A 1998 tax filing for the McCain-led group shows a $448,873 grant to Khalidi's Center for Palestine Research and Studies for work in the West Bank.

The relationship extends back as far as 1993, when John McCain joined IRI as chairman in January. Foreign Affairs noted in September of that year that IRI had helped fund several extensive studies in Palestine run by Khalidi's group, including over 30 public opinion polls and a study of "sociopolitical attitudes

Who cares. The LA Times is the fool for not telling their 'source' to stuff it and by agreeing to not release it or tell anyone who gave them the tape. They are merely dangling raw meat in front of the internet crazies who see a conspiracy in everything.

Who cares if Ayers was at that dinner or that Khalidi and Obama were acquainted. Yassar Arafat went to the White House and Camp David for peace talks and that wasn't the end of the world.

McCain's IRI group gave Khalidi's organization a whole bunch of $$ - does McCain forget that??

McCain is senile. Nov 4th can't come fast enough and if everyone is SMART they'll vote Obama and we'll never have to listen to the ditherings of Old Walnut again, and we can ship Plain back to YeeHaw Holler where she belongs.

So Ayers was at the same dinner that Obama attended and the videotape which La times is hiding shows that??

So this explains why Obama is uncomfortable at the tape being released because Obama claims that he is not involved with Ayers when all along it seems that Obama is lying about it.

Why are Ayers and Khalidi college professors instead of being in jail? Ask Ted Kennedy and OJ, maybe they all use the same defense strategy!

I'm REAL tired of references to McCain's age. Here's the deal people, you will either be his age one day, or you will be dead, and that's a fact! The thing is though, when Obama and Pelosi get through giving away, you won't see a dime of all that money that comes out of your check every week! (social security) That is, if you have a job. Hope I'm still here to watch you squirm!

I cannot BELIEVE people are saying "if Ayers and Khalidi are such bad people, why are they are professors at colleges?" Give me a break!!!!!!! The "mainstream" media is just giddy over this election, it makes me sick! Why did Obama spend $10,000,000.00 for that 30 minute spot? He gets about 20 hours a day FREE from the giddy media! And all the poor sheep that are willing to let the media control the election and our economy need to wake up, what is wrong with you people????????