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RNC Hits Obama Campaign for Meeting with Controversial Muslim Leader who Met with Bush
October 10, 2008 2:24 PM
"How many times has the Obama campaign met with groups tied to or connected with terrorist organizations?" asks the RNC today.
The RNC was referring to a report in today's Wall Street Journal that the Obama campaign "said it was a mistake for an outreach coordinator to join a meeting last month attended by leaders of two controversial Muslim groups as it seeks votes from large Muslim populations in swing states. Minha Husaini, newly named as head of the campaign's outreach coordinator to Muslims, attended a discussion session Sept. 15 with about 30 Muslim leaders and community members in suburban Washington, the Obama campaign confirmed. Participants included leaders of the Council of American-Islamic Relations and the Muslim American Society, which have been cited by the government in the past for ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas...
“Nihad Awad, executive director of CAIR, also attended the session, as did the group's legislative director. The government named CAIR an unindicted co-conspirator in the Justice Department's racketeering prosecution last year of alleged Hamas fundraisers. CAIR said the designation was unjustified; the case ended in a mistrial, but is being brought again by the government.”
Nihad Awad...Nihad Awad...that name rings a bell.
Oh right, he's the guy in this photo, to President Bush's left.
How many times has President Bush met with groups tied to or connected with terrorist organizations? (Other than that time he was holding hands with the Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah, I mean.)
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has met with groups -- the ISNA, for example -- about whom some allege terrorist ties.
How many times has Secretary Rice met with groups tied to or connected with terrorist organizations?
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What path are McCain, Palin and the RNC on right now?
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., asks, "Who is the real Barack Obama?" and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says Obama "doesn’t see America the way we do," and that Obama "is palling around with terrorists." The RNC alleges that Obama's getting a lot of money from overseas and then lodges this accusatory question about terrorist groups that could easily be leveled at the president.
Where does this path lead? What will John McCain be asking about Obama in 20 days? What will Palin be saying? What RNC e-mails will be in my in-box?
Politico's Ben Smith points out today that McCain "didn't talk about the stock market yesterday, and didn't put out a statement on it, while Obama did both, and McCain campaign manager Rick Davis was asked about that on a conference call (about ACORN!) this afternoon.
"'There’s very little a candidate for president can say and very little the president can say about what’s happening in the stock markets except hope that they correct themselves,' Davis said. The campaign, he said, shouldn't become a "CNBC news show on the stock market."
- jpt
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Every time I hear the right wingers spout this "Messiah" stuff, I can't help it I just imagine J. Edgar Hoover in an evening gown snooping on Martin Luther King Jr. Thats exactly the way they used to talk about him, and it seems nothing has changed.
Posted by: Mike | Oct 10, 2008 6:13:56 PM
"Ryan, I don't plant my barbs for your amusement. I'm still trying to shame that all important PUMA vote into repentance."
I understand that Ricky.
And I do appreciate what you are trying to do.
It was more my being so angry at the time that I was no in the mood to laugh.
And you more often than not make me laugh.
Posted by: Ryan C | Oct 10, 2008 5:57:16 PM
The only thing funnier than the right-wing mob's impotent rage and unfocused attacks is picturing the faces of these morons on election night. Newsweek 10/10: Obama 52, McCain 41. Obama up 8 in WV! Up in VA, NC, MO, OH, FL! This will be a landslide.
Posted by: Seamus | Oct 10, 2008 5:47:22 PM
Let's show Jake the love and respect he seserves and get bak to his thread.
Jake, your analysis left me confused.
Is the RNC attacking Obama over Nihad
Awad in order to distance themselves from Bush? Or are they trying to drive down Nihad Awads poll numbers by linking him to Bush in order to regain traction in Michigan?
Posted by: ricky | Oct 10, 2008 5:47:01 PM
After a week of negative attacks, McCain did nothing but drive up his negatives and drive down his own numbers. The senile fool and Caribou Barbie are down to 39 in the Fox poll. 39!!!. Keep it up, geezer.
Posted by: Bill | Oct 10, 2008 5:44:57 PM
Ryan, I don't plant my barbs for your amusement. I'm still trying to shame that all important PUMA vote into repentance.
Posted by: ricky | Oct 10, 2008 5:34:13 PM
Jeanie - "impending high tax on capital gains"
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On what.?.?
Posted by: Use Your Brain | Oct 10, 2008 5:33:44 PM
McCain is now attacking Michelle Obama over ties to Bill Ayers despite FOX poll results showing ties to Ayers do not move many independent voters away from voting for Barack Obama. Guess McCain really does need a weatherman to know which was the wind blows.
Posted by: ricky | Oct 10, 2008 5:30:08 PM
Norm Coleman is refusing to attend a campaign rally with McCain in Minnesota. Even the GOP knows McCain has gotten toxic.
Posted by: Paige | Oct 10, 2008 5:29:30 PM
"A Democrat in the WH and Democrats controlling both houses of Congress is much more FRIGHTENING in terms of government spending,"
I love how right wingers say this and then pretend to be Democrats.
Posted by: Ryan C | Oct 10, 2008 5:27:11 PM
McCain's moves continue to be impulsive and ill-conceived. The problem with putting Michelle Obama in the mix is:
Obama defended Palin's family from the media.
Cindy McCain's past is ugly.
It is classless.
Posted by: Paige | Oct 10, 2008 5:25:29 PM
A Democrat in the WH and Democrats controlling both houses of Congress is much more FRIGHTENING in terms of government spending, than a Democratic-controlled Congress with a Republican in the WH who DOES want to cut out pork and over-spending.
McCain WILL VETO such pork-stuffed bills - Obama WILL NOT!
In less than 4 years, Obama has requested almost ONE BILLION in earmarks for Illinois.
McCain has NEVER requested an earmark!
Dems for McCain/Palin
Posted by: joseyJ | Oct 10, 2008 5:24:11 PM
"Ryan, he goes after all women at least twenty years younger."
Ricky, normally I appreciate your off beat brand of humor but now is not the time for laughter.
McCain is a scumbag.
Posted by: Ryan C | Oct 10, 2008 5:22:20 PM
"It pales in comparison to the Republican operation in Nevada four years ago which threw 300 registrations into the garbage because the people had opted to register Democratic."
Or the phone jamming scheme to stop Democratic GOTV efforts.
Posted by: Ryan C | Oct 10, 2008 5:21:11 PM
>>>>>"'There’s very little a candidate for president can say and very little the president can say about what’s happening in the stock markets except hope that they correct themselves,'
Exactly! but Obama will wear a suit to distract from his Empty Suit and tell voters lies about McCain.
And the dumbed down American Idol electorate will believe The Messiah.
But Oblahma hasn't hoodwinked this Dem family!
Posted by: joseyJ | Oct 10, 2008 5:20:56 PM
"Murtagh didn't even bother alleging that the two even knew each other, instead suggesting that they might have. If so, he said, the Obamas have known the two longer than suspected.
"If it is true" that the two women knew each other, Murtagh said, "the relationship is almost a decade older than Senator Obama has acknowledged. And that can very easily be resolved by Senator Obama, by Mrs. Obama, by Mr. Ayers and by Ms. Dohrn."
"And incidentally, I would emphasize that we've all been focusing on Senator Obama," said Murtagh. "I think we need to speak to his wife."
Keep in mind that this wasn't any surrogate speaking off the cuff. He was on a call organized by the McCain campaign, and he was apparently reading from a prepared statement, which would of course have been vetted by McCain aides. And so another once-cherished McCain principle gets junked in the service of self-parody. "
McCain should be pelted with fruit wherever he goes.
He is a national joke.
Posted by: Ryan C | Oct 10, 2008 5:18:01 PM
"Now McCain is going after Michelle Obama."
What?
He's going after his opponent's wife?"
Ryan, he goes after all women at least twenty years younger.
Posted by: ricky | Oct 10, 2008 5:17:27 PM
The McCain campaign is now broadening their attack on Obama's past association with William Ayers to include Michelle Obama -- even though McCain has repeatedly said spouses should be off limits during the campaign.
The attack? Bernardine Dohrn, Ayers' wife and fellow former Weatherman, went to work in 1984 for the major Chicago-based national law firm of Sidley & Austin, and three years later, Michelle joined the mega-firm as well.
That's the entire attack. We wish we were joking. But we aren't.
(Josh Marshall)
Posted by: Paige | Oct 10, 2008 5:16:19 PM
The case ACORN brought against its former employees is commonly referred to by the right wing media as the "indictments of ACORN", or slightly less disingenuously by the MSM as the "ACORN indictments".
It pales in comparison to the Republican operation in Nevada four years ago which threw 300 registrations into the garbage because the people had opted to register Democratic.
Posted by: Mike | Oct 10, 2008 5:15:40 PM
Is it true McCain did not know the housing bubble burst until reporters asked him how many houses he owned?
Posted by: ricky | Oct 10, 2008 5:15:32 PM
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