Political Punch

From the Jewish Telegraph:
"The attacks from McCain and Palin came as a relationship between Khalidi and the Republican presidential nominee was revealed. The International Republican Institute, an organization McCain has chaired since 1993, provided funds to the Center for Palestine Research and Studies, an organziation co-founded by Khalidi, during the 1990s -- including $448,873 in 1998 for the organization to conduct surveys of the West Bank and Gaza Strip."
McCain's own relationship with Khalidi goes back to 1993 and involves McCain's own organization funding him to the tune of nearly half a million dollars!
Any news organization that does not mention this, first and foremost, as the lead in to this allegation should not be in the business.

McCain has abandoned his character in this election. What's going on in the GOP world when even Elizabeth Dole lets herself be lowered into the gutter. Utterly shameful. I thought it was both comic and telling that Obama never once mentioned John McCain's name in last night's commercial. The man has class. John McCain once had class, but no longer.

Wow, secret tapes not being released but reported all over Fox News. Reminds me of the "Michelle Obama Whitey Tape" that got so much Fox press a few months ago. No one has been able to find that one, either.

If there was such a tape, there would be more than one copy and someone would be releasing it. I've never heard anyone from the Times say that there even is a tape, so let's start there.

And, yes I do know the issues and exactly what Barack is going to do for my country. Yes, I will pay slightly higher taxes under his administration, but 95% of the country won't. Since I love my country and put country first, going back to the tax rates that existed the last time that this country was in decent shape doesn't bother me. I just want the country to be a decent place to live again, and that is why I support Barack Obama for President.

To Common Sense /Oct 29, 2008 8:56:50

MLK holiday was not necessary, just like it was not necessary to proclaim Cesar Chavez holiday in California. Remember that John McCain was in Vietnam when MLK was marching for civil rights in the sixties. Give McCain a break.

When I was stationed overseas from 1987-1990, I did not know what was going on the U.S. because whatever news we in the military heard about U.S. was limited, and I was not in solitary confinement, or being tortured like McCain. So I can't really relate to the events that occurred in the U.S. during those three years.

Anyway, you weren't even going to vote for McCain. To all minority ethnic groups, you need to stop victimizing yourselves, and I'm speaking as Hispanic female. You can't blame society or our government for our shortcomings. On the contrary, we shoud be grateful that we live in the greatest country of the world. Be proud and get an education. We always have the choice that if we don't like it here, we can leave to where ever our ancestors came from. I wouldn't trade our great nation for the world!

Even the poorest of the poor people in U.S. live better than the poor in other countries.

Hispanic female for McCain/Palin.

I am concerned about Obama s
experience and his plans. When you
add up all he has promised, you find
it is not possible without at least
increasing taxes at least 1/2 more than
you are presently paying 25% plan on
37.%.if you are paying 40 plan on paying
60%.

I would love to have health insurance
like congress as Obama said, but anyone
that knows how to add, knows that
is an impossible dream...I am concerned
that most of the people backing
Obama and his plans are young and
college educated...but have accepted
all his plans as fact without checking
on the facts. Obama is not GOD...
even though there are a few million
people that are acting like it.

He is a well spoken person, able to
deliver a message and move a crowd..
check on history...who were some
of the people in the past that moved to
fame quickly like Obama.?

This is not about Republicans or
Democrats...this is about being free
next year...about having enought extra
money to buy a soda..or let the kids
go to a movie...

This is serious stuff...not just about
political parties....

If Obama is as great as he is trying
to make you all believe, then he will
stay on the political scence and
be elected president in 2012. This
man is unproven, no background, has
never run a company, or a state. He has
been running for president for 20 months
So his time in the Senate is only about
1 1/2 years....Why care about his
church, or Ayers, His friend that is
still not cleared of taking millions
from Fannie (or Freddie..not sure
which)..The person that helped him
get his house..that is on his way to
prision, BECAUSE..THERE ARE SO MANY.BAD PEOPLE...and now he has said
he wants to help people that have
less money to have more..HELP THE
MIDDLE CLASS.

If you make 40,000 a year, is it o k
with you to have your taxes go up 4000
to donate to someone else that only
makes 18 thousand....that would
be more fair....then you would have
36000 and he would have 22000...thats
a lot better...(never mind the fact.
that he gets 18000 a year, because
he chooses to work part of the time)
now you are helping to spread the
wealth.)OBAMA will TAKE FROM YOU NOT
JUST from the people making 3 or 4
Hundred Thousand a year....
...There are not enough people
making big $$ to even our society out.
so YOU will have to pay your fair share.

If you are an American making 300,000
plus a year, you have the means to
leave America...and thats what a lot
of rich or richer people will do...
There are places in the world, that
you do not have to SHARE THE WEALTH..
An Obama America is one where every
one is more equal..the drug user will
not be screened to see if he is still
on drugs..he will get a check...provided
for him with YOUR MONEY....
Forget NEW CARS,,,,A NICER HOME....IF
THIS IS THE AMERICA YOU WANT TO LIVE IN
VOTE FOR OBAMA.

YOU ALL WANT CORPORATIONS TO PAY MORE
TAXES. CORPORATIONS ARE MOVING TO
IRELAND NOW...BECAUSE THEY HAVE A LOW
TAX RATE...in this global economy,
they can do that...IF YOU HAVE THE
CHOICE OF WORKING AT TWO DIFFERENT
PLACES AND ONE PLACE YOU WILL BENEFIT
A LOT MORE...WHICH ONE WOULD YOU CHOOSE?

THINK ABOUT IT...ITS NOT WHICH ONE
CAN CALL THE OTHER ONE THE MOST
CUTE NAMES...BETWEEN THE DEM S & REP S

THIS IS YOUR FUTURE...WHERE WILL YOU
BE IN 2010? PLEASE DO NOT TRUST YOUR
FUTURE TO AN UNKNOWN..

Everyone talks about this tape like it is the only way for the Times to give more info. There are other ways, as this article points out -

Michelle, The LA Times article is based on an ultra right wing blog - a bottom-feeder blog. I spoke with the author when it was written. The individual who wrote the blog is so twisted that they claimed that Jill Carroll - a neutral American journalist who was held as a hostage in Iraq for months - hated America and loved Arabs. The individual who runs this blog made this statement with virtually no collaborating evidence (stories, quotes, actions). SHe just thought it might be provocative. The statement on the blog was made on the day this terrified woman was released - after she had been thought to be dead.

I'd like to think a real journalist wouldn't do that. Unfortunately, it's the way some journalists get their stories today. From botttom feeders. With virtually no evidence.

hopey. whoops - it's getting late. i apologize for the typo. my post requested you to please stop shouting.

McCain's dubious associations.
- Gordon Liddy
- Dictator Pinochet
- U.S. Council For World Freedom
- Nazi collaborators and ultra-right-wing death squads in Central America
- Keating five

The irony is that Hamas owes much of it's power to Bush and the republicans.

The republicans and Bush were advocates of elections being held in Palestine. What they didn't realized was that the PLO was corrupt as hell, as result many people voted for Hamas.

So this smear and fear tactic is falling on its face and now they are trying to distance them from Khalidi.
Give me break...

It is going to be fascinating to see what "cause" all haters of intelligence, respect for your fellow man, research, intellectual curiosity and political and social discourse will rush to after McCain loses.

Boy, why did that one get cut? Are readers not supposed to know that the LA Times is owned by Sam Zell and he is a MAJOR donor to Israeli causes? What's the harm in that. If Zell thought Obama was anti-Israel, that tape and its contents would have been all over the Times and Tribune months ago.

And where were you big Israeli supporters last week when Andy Martin, the biggest and most vocal anti-semite I've ever heard was whining about birth certificates all over the news? As I recall, you were frothing at the mouth. This has nothing to do with being pro-Israeli or anti-semitic - it's just more witch hunting out of desperation. Maybe you can call in Sarh Palin's guest preacher - he seemed like he made a career out of witchhunting. And she tood there and let him annoint her. EEEW.

Why is it that the Republicans choose to tar Obama with associations that are shared by members of their own party? In 2006, Condoleezza Rice was keynote speaker for Khalidi's organization, the American Task Force on Palestine. She compared Palestinians to our founding fathers and likened their movement to that of the civil rights movement. Joseph Farah of World Net Daily wrote of Rice, "She has deliberately chosen to side with evil – the kind of people with whom we are supposed to be at war. It means that her boss, President Bush, is committed to this evil path as well."

Johnny Mathis and Denice Williams did a song that sums up the McCain campaign. And McCain's old enough to remember it came out on VINYL.

"Guess it's over. Call it a day." Not sorry it has to end this way obviously. "Too much too little too late to ever try again." Skip that let's end and be friends part. When he's out, I won't mind him fading into history.

seems senility has taken over - accusing the opposition of something you are WAAAAAYYYY more guilty of to the tune of half a million. LOL! can you say HYPOCRITES!

"The Israeli Times states there was a strong anti-Israeli sentiment"

That's probably how the blacks felt when McCain said MLK day wasn't necessary. McCain's continued underestimation and dismissiveness of cultural acceptance by this diverse America makes his attack on Obama all the more hypocritical and divisive.

Obama/Biden 08!

My grandmother used to say: "If you dig one ditch, better dig two. The trap you set may be for yourself."

Stephen Gianelli...
This tape has been around for years. Why now?
Why this last minute attempt to taint Obama.
I smell a rat!

McCain's Last Ditch Effort:
"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."

The worse president(s) in our history were FDR for the Raw Deal. It was WWII that brought an end to the depression.
If you had heard his fireside chats he referred to a second bill of rights. My parents and grandparents lived throught the depression and this is in no way close. Unemployment was 30%. If you knew your history, you would know that Joseph P. Kennedy was a big part of the problem, since he was someone who saw it coming, said nothing and sold short. The Kennedy kids never knew that there was a depression. Kennedy got us into a mess with the Soviet Union. It was luck that we did not have WWIII. Fortunately the soviets did not have the trigger mechanism to launch the radioactive missiles. Plus under the new Pres. who Biden likens Obama to we had the Bay of Pigs fiasco, and Kennedy's attempt at and assasination of Fidel Castro. Johnson who escalated the war in Viet Nam to: LBJ, LBJ, have many kids have you killed today? His Great Society is and was a disaster, since the poor are still with us. Then the feckless Jimmie Carter and the kidnapping for 444 days of 52 Americans. Plus the beginning of the housing mess with the CRA. Then Clinto with forcing banks to give loans to people who could not afford them. The first World Trade Center bombing he treated as a simple crime, bombing an aspirin factory, Blackhawk down in Mogadishu, Khobar towers,ignore Rwanda/Burundi violence, had a chance to get Bin Laden, ignored it. Barney Frank's boyfriend had an important position with Fannie Mae from approx. 1991-1999(2000?). The Dems got a lot of money from this, their personal piggy bank.

George Bush defeats Al Gore, who was trying to steal the election. President Bush was dissed by the Dems for 1 attempts to rein in Fannie Mae. Sen. Obama received the second largest amount of money from Fannie Mae. Chris Dodd received the second largest amount.

Watch the CSPAN video from 2004.