McCain campaign accuses L.A. Times of 'suppressing' Obama video, page 2
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reply posted on 29-10-2008 @ 09:55 AM by thisguyrighthere
reply to post by xxpigxx


Seriously. Thats screwey as all get-out. Of all the people to ask to keep a secret you contact a newspaper. I guess it matters what the secret is. National Security issues, dont tell the NYTimes they'll publsh it within minutes. Dirt on their polished candidate, go ahead and tell the LATimes they wont risk damaging their messiah.


reply posted on 29-10-2008 @ 09:58 AM by Grafilthy
reply to post by heliosprime


said McCain campaign spokesman Michael Goldfarb. " . . . The election is one week away, and it's unfortunate that the press so obviously favors Barack Obama that this campaign must publicly request that the Los Angeles Times do its job -- make information public."


So......the "liberal media" now has a moral obligation........to give the McCain campaign assistance with their campaign?? Why would a bunch of baby killers do that??

I think they need to find MORE DIRT!!!! All the other attempts haven't worked.....so try harder?!?!?!?! Good strategy.....with it being VERY apparent that people are ALREADY turned off by all the negative ads, statements, and insinuation.

I will tell you like I told the rest. Keep up the good work! Every time you hear about another unsavory character Obama is "palling around with".....
By all means, let us know (every heard the saying "no such thing as bad publicity?")!!!!!

Rashid Khalidi???? Another Ivy league professor???

Does this make those schools "terrorist training camps" then???
I think it does!!! Those crazy radicals!


reply posted on 29-10-2008 @ 12:46 PM by jibeho
Originally posted by mythatsabigprobe
So What? The guy is a Yale and Oxford educated AMERICAN and member of the US National Advisory Committee on the Middle East.

More cheap and dirty tricks.



Theodore John Kaczynski aka The Unabomber was a Harvard Undergrad and a professor in California. An Ivy League education does not give you a free pass in life. Khalidi and Obama have close ties although Obama would never call him a friend.

Obama stated that “[Khalidi] is Palestinian. And I do know him and I have had conversations. He is not one of my advisors; he’s not one of my foreign policy people. His kids went to the Lab school where my kids go as well. He is a respected scholar, although he vehemently disagrees with a lot of Israel’s policy... To pluck out one person who I know and who I’ve had a conversation with who has very different views than 900 of my friends and then to suggest that somehow that shows that maybe I’m not sufficiently pro-Israel, I think, is a very problematic stand to take…So we gotta be careful about guilt by association.”[24]

Khalidi refers to Obama as a friend.
New York Daily News reported on 3/6/07,
at a 2000 Obama fund-raiser hosted by Khalidi. Khalidi, now head of Columbia University’s Middle East Institute, said he hosted the fundraiser because he was friends with Obama while the two lived in Chicago. ‘He never came to us and said he would do anything in terms of Palestinians,’ Khalidi said."


reply posted on 29-10-2008 @ 01:25 PM by redhatty
Originally posted by DJMessiah
What's the big deal? Even McCain has ties to Rashid Khalidi.

McCain himself has helped fund Khalidi's Palestinian Research Center, with a instance of a $500,000 fund.


Oh talk about a spin. It was not McCain's own money, it was International Republican Institute monies - which McCain was chairman of.

The money went to the Center for Palestinian Research Studies, see grant 5180. Yes Khalidi is a founding trustee of the group.

The group, funded by taxpayer and private money, is active in dozens of countries, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. The institute was created in 1983 during the Cold War and made the Arizona senator chairman of its board in January 1993. McCain has said U.S. foreign policy should promote democracy abroad.


The International Republican Institute has large programs in Russia, China, Afghanistan, Sudan, Colombia, Indonesia, Pakistan and Iraq.

source

This is a completely different ballgame than a direct contribution to a person.

Edit to add source link

[edit on 10/29/08 by redhatty]


reply posted on 30-10-2008 @ 07:46 AM by jibeho
reply to post by GamerGal


Old news. It was the International Republican Institute that donated the money. They donate money all around the world to promote democracy. McCain served as chairman.

www.iri.org...


reply posted on 30-10-2008 @ 07:55 AM by GamerGal
reply to post by jibeho


Wow, blind partisanship much? Obama is palling around with a terrorist when he met this guy but when McCain was shaking hands, giving hundreds of thousands of dollars to him, McCain was palling around with an American Ally. Yeah, no spin here.
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