Isn't it interesting that republican McCain is responsible for helping to fund Khalidi and republican Annenberg funded Ayers? So it's ok to provide money to help further their causes, but it's not ok to be 'associated' with them. I wonder how you reconcile that seemingly contradictory information if you are a republican? Do they just lack a 'contradiction filter'? Or are they just really really good at cherry picking? Time for some cherry pie I think.
Interesting leap from "anti-Israel" to "crime." Odd you don't find a "pro-Israel radical" in Obama's "neighborhood"...considering he SUCH a good friend of Israel.
((((((This is the first I hear of this story, but tell me something here, why would it be bad to talk to a Palestinian who is a researcher and professor? Don't we want to solve the conflict in Palestine? ))))))
L. KING: They apparently -- your campaign says that they're suppressing videotape of a 2003 banquet when Barack Obama praised Palestinian activist and scholar, Rashid Khalidi.
What's this all -- what is this?
MCCAIN: Why shouldn't they...
L. KING: Why would the paper suppress this?
MCCAIN: I have no idea. If they have the tape, they ought to make the American people aware of it, let them see it and make their own judgment. Frankly, I've been in a lot of political campaigns -- a whole lot. I've never seen anything like this, where a major media outlet has information and a tape of some occasion -- maybe it means nothing. Maybe it's just a social event. I don't know.
But why should they not release it?
And why shouldn't the Obama campaign want it released?
L. KING: Is this Palestinian some sort of terrorist?
MCCAIN: We know that at that time, the PLO was a terrorist organization.
L. KING: He was PLO?
MCCAIN: Yes. That's -- that's what the allegation is, Larry. I haven't seen the tape. So -- but we should see the tape to make it -- to make the American people make a judgment.
(END VIDEO TAPE)
L. KING: CNN, by the way, has fact checked the allegations the McCain-Palin ticket has made about Rashid Khalidi and Barack Obama's association with him.
In a 2004 "Washington Times" story, Khalidi denied ever being a spokesman for the PLO. He has been an activist for Palestinian causes and a critic of U.S. policy toward Israel. He currently is a scholar at Columbia University.
Eight years ago, Khalidi did host a political fundraiser for Obama. Obama has described him as a former neighbor and university colleague in Chicago.
However, CNN's fact check team notes the two men strongly disagree over the Israeli-Palestinian issue and there's no evidence of a continuing political relationship.>>>
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Points well taken!
Sopal
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Here's a snipet:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0810/29/lkl.01.html
L. KING: They apparently -- your campaign says that they're suppressing videotape of a 2003 banquet when Barack Obama praised Palestinian activist and scholar, Rashid Khalidi.
What's this all -- what is this?
MCCAIN: Why shouldn't they...
L. KING: Why would the paper suppress this?
MCCAIN: I have no idea. If they have the tape, they ought to make the American people aware of it, let them see it and make their own judgment. Frankly, I've been in a lot of political campaigns -- a whole lot. I've never seen anything like this, where a major media outlet has information and a tape of some occasion -- maybe it means nothing. Maybe it's just a social event. I don't know.
But why should they not release it?
And why shouldn't the Obama campaign want it released?
L. KING: Is this Palestinian some sort of terrorist?
MCCAIN: We know that at that time, the PLO was a terrorist organization.
L. KING: He was PLO?
MCCAIN: Yes. That's -- that's what the allegation is, Larry. I haven't seen the tape. So -- but we should see the tape to make it -- to make the American people make a judgment.
(END VIDEO TAPE)
L. KING: CNN, by the way, has fact checked the allegations the McCain-Palin ticket has made about Rashid Khalidi and Barack Obama's association with him.
In a 2004 "Washington Times" story, Khalidi denied ever being a spokesman for the PLO. He has been an activist for Palestinian causes and a critic of U.S. policy toward Israel. He currently is a scholar at Columbia University.
Eight years ago, Khalidi did host a political fundraiser for Obama. Obama has described him as a former neighbor and university colleague in Chicago.
However, CNN's fact check team notes the two men strongly disagree over the Israeli-Palestinian issue and there's no evidence of a continuing political relationship.>>>
Sopal
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