Oh and neo-Fascist Republican McCain doesn't?
Bull **** red neck.
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man who wants to be president has a consistent
and disturbing pattern of associations with influence
peddlers, racist preachers, terrorist professors and
people who wouldn't mind if Israel just went away.
Obamastan
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 4:20 PM PT
After criticizing McCain for mentioning that Hamas endorses him, Obama
says it's understandable that Hamas would do so. Just how anti-Hamas
and pro-Israel is the Democratic front-runner? And just why did he
fire an adviser who talked with the group?
Barack Obama would like us to believe that the Rev. Jeremiah Wright
who ranted anti-American profanities at the National Press Club was
not the man he saw from the pews of his church for two decades.
He'd also have us believe that Weatherman terrorist bomber William
Ayers, who played host to his first fundraiser and with whom he would
later serve on a board, is just a "guy in the neighborhood."
Similarly, Obama would have us believe he doesn't accept the recent
endorsement of his candidacy by Ahmed Yousef of the terrorist
organization Hamas. John McCain, he said, had "lost his bearings" for
asserting, "If Sen. Obama is favored by Hamas, I think people can make
judgments accordingly."
We have, and we hope the American people will as well.
Obama told CNN that McCain's remarks were "offensive" and that it was
"disappointing" his Republican rival would engage "in that kind of
smear . . . particularly since my policy toward Hamas has been no
different than his."
Oh, really? If McCain's remarks were a "smear," senator, why did you
tell the Atlantic magazine:
"It's conceivable that there are some in the Arab world who say to
themselves, 'This is a guy who spent some time in the Muslim world,
has a middle name of Hussein and appears more worldly and has called
for talks with people, and so he's not going to be engaging in the
same sort of cowboy diplomacy as George Bush." Except these people
launch rockets at Israel and oppose its existence.
(By the way, isn't it funny how Obama can mention his middle name in a
national forum when convenient, but if a Republican uses it, it's
racist and offensive? Imagine the reaction if McCain had mentioned his
legal name was Barack Hussein Obama or had made the above comments
about Obama. When a warm-up speaker at a McCain event said "Barack
Hussein Obama" repeatedly, media hell broke loose.)
[And what would have happened if he used the
senator's real full name— Barak Hussein
Mohammad Obama]
If Obama's policy toward Hamas is different from McCain's, why did he
have as one of his key Mideast advisers one Robert Malley, who
disclosed to the Times of London that he'd been in regular contact
with Hamas as part of his work for a conflict-resolution think tank
similar to the one former President Jimmy Carter has?
Just as Obama disowned the pastor he said he could not disown after
Rev. Wright's rants were hurting him politically, Obama has fired
Malley — 48 hours after it was revealed Malley had met with Hamas on
more than one occasion, something Obama has said that, as president,
he would not do.
Malley got the boot shortly after this revelation and shortly after
McCain raised the issue of Obama's endorsement by Hamas. Is Malley
whispering in Obama's ear one of the reasons Hamas endorsed Obama?
Does Obama want us to believe that, as with Rev. Wright, he also had
no knowledge of Malley's views?
Malley was part of Bill Clinton's negotiating team at the 2000 Camp
David talks, where Yasser Arafat turned down a Palestinian state on
the West Bank. Soon after, Malley wrote a New York Times piece blaming
Israel and the U.S. for the breakdown.
In a recent op-ed in the Wa****ngton Post co-authored by Arafat adviser
Hussein Agha, Malley wrote: "A renewed national compact and a return
of Hamas to the political fold would upset Israel's strategy of
perpetuating Palestinian geographic and political division."
So, according to Obama's former adviser, it's all Israel's fault, not
the fault of those who want to make sure Israel, celebrating 60 years
of existence, doesn't have a 61st birthday.
Perhaps that's why Malley, whose father Simon was a personal friend of
Arafat's, wrote another op-ed in the Baltimore Sun titled, "Making the
Best of Hamas' Victory." After Hamas won a majority of seats in the
Palestinian parliament in February 2006, Malley advocated
international aid to the terrorist group's newly formed government.
Did Obama know about this before he brought Malley on board? Asked if
the Obama camp knew about his contacts with Hamas, Malley said: "They
know who I am, but I don't think they vet everyone in a group of
informal advisers."
If Obama wants to be president, he'd better do a better job of both
vetting and picking friends and associates, as well as pastors.
As we have noted, Obama also has links with Ra****d Khalidi, who
currently is the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia
University. Said, who was one of the leading anti-Israeli
"intellectuals" of the 20th century and once worked with Arafat's
Palestinian Liberation Organization, has branded Israel as an
"apartheid system in creation."
In 2000, Khalidi and his wife held a fundraiser for Obama's
unsuccessful congressional bid. The next year, a social service group
whose board was headed by Mona Khalidi received a $40,000 grant from a
local charity, the Woods Fund of Chicago, when Obama, along with
William Ayers, served on the fund's board of directors.
Last month, the Los Angeles Times re****ted that Obama spoke at a going-
away party in honor of Khalidi in Chicago in 2003. One speaker likened
"Zionist settlers on the West Bank" to Osama bin Laden, saying both
had been "blinded by ideology."
Ali Abunimah, a Palestinian activist from Chicago who helps run the
Web site Electronic Intifada, says: "In 2000, when Obama
unsuccessfully ran for Congress, I heard him speak at a fundraiser
hosted by a University of Chicago professor." Abunimah says Obama
called for a more "even-handed" — meaning less pro-Israel — policy in
the Middle East.
So Obama's endorsement by Hamas is not all that surprising. The man
who wants to be president has a consistent and disturbing pattern of
associations with influence peddlers, racist preachers, terrorist
professors and people who wouldn't mind if Israel just went away.
As John McCain says, the American people should make their judgments
accordingly.
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