Palin blasts Obama for ties to Palestinian professor
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BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (CNN) - Sarah Palin thrust Barack Obama’s relationship with a Palestinian academic into the national spotlight on Wednesday at a rally in Ohio - a tactic reminiscent of her repeated attempts to tie Obama to former radical William Ayers.
Palin kicked off her rally in Bowling Green by stressing, as she always does, that “it is not negative campaigning to call someone out on their record.” In recent weeks Palin has used that line to open up an attack on Obama’s tax plans. On Wednesday, she tried something different.
“It seems that there is yet another radical professor from the neighborhood who spent a lot of time with Barack Obama going back several years,” Palin said. “This is important because his associate, Rashid Khalidi, he, in addition to being a political ally of Barack Obama, he's a former spokesperson for the Paliestinian Liberation Organization.”
Khalidi - whose name Palin mispronounced - is currently a leading scholar of Middle Eastern Studies at Columbia University, and was a contemporary of Obama’s while on faculty at the University of Chicago.
Khalidi has been a stern critic of United States foreign policy towards Israel and has accused the country of “occupying” Palestinian territories, but he has denied acting as a spokesman for the PLO.
The Los Angeles Times reported in April that Obama praised Khalidi at a 2003 going-away party for the professor when he left Chicago. The McCain campaign has pressured the Times to publicly release a videotape of the event, but the newspaper has refused, citing the request of a source.
Palin said the public has a right to know what Obama said at the event.
“And the twist here is that there's a videotape of a party for this person, back in 2003, a celebration of him, and Barack was there, and we know some very derogatory things were said there about Israel and America's support for that great nation,” Palin said.
“And among other things, Israel was described there as the perpetrator of terrorism instead of the victim. What we don't know, what we don't know is how Barack Obama responded to these slurs on a country that he now professes to support, and the reason is the newspaper that has the tape, the Los Angeles Times, refuses to release it.”
Palin accused the Times of being Obama’s “pet newspaper” and said the paper would win a Pulitzer Prize for “excelling in cow-towing.”
The Republican vice presidential nominee was joined at her Ohio rally by Joe Wurzelbacher, known to the world as Joe the plumber. It was the first time the celebrated small business owner has appeared with Palin on the stump.
Palin described Wurzelbacher as “a fellow Alaskan” because he once lived near Fairbanks.
I'm sorry ! But this woman is dumber than dirt.
all you dems need to go get a life you are pathetic. my god get a life for real!
Could someone please just ask her to stop. She is the most gossiping, untruthful, truth twisting, ugly idealed woman I think I've ever encountered. And McCain's judgement and grasp on reality is really in question with his choice of this nasty mouthed lie geisser.
Obama is a scholar, a teacher, a lawyer, a community organizer, a politician, a father, a husband and probably a lot of other smart meaningful things. Obama is going to move this country forward.
McCain's campaign has not hit rock botton yet so I wish they would just stop talking they give me heartache and headache.
I am so sick to my stomach of this B*&%H
And what's your relationship to the AIP, Sarah? Inquiring minds want to know.
By the way my son needs to wthdrawl from college because his math and science professors are Arabic and Africans. He may not know what his future may lead and he may be called a terrorist. THIS IS CRAZY!!!!
PALIN IS A PIG
Ugggh!! I guess they are going to keep going with that "he is scary because he knows of this or that person" Mean while her own running mate mcCant sat on a board that gave money to Khalidi.
A Democrat's prayer to protect them against the last ditch "fear, smear, mock and LIE" tactics of the McCain/Palin camp:
"O Lord I pary that you save and protect me from your other evangelical Christian neocon republican followers, Amen."
PS: And if your still listening, please look out extra good for Obama 'cause with the trash talk he's getting from the republican/fascist crazies this week he really needs it!
McCain and Khalidi appear to have some joint interests, and that fact speaks very well of both of them. Indeed, the McCain–Khalidi connections are more substantial than the phony Obama–Khalidi connections. The Republican party’s congressionally funded international-networking organization, the International Republican Institute–long and ably chaired by John McCain and headed by McCain’s close friend, the capable Lorne Craner–has taken an interest in West Bank matters. IRI funded an ambitious project, called the Palestine Center, that Khalidi helped to support. Khalidi served on the Center’s board of directors. The goal of that project, shared by Khalidi and McCain, was the promotion of civic consciousness and engagement and the development of democratic values in the West Bank. Not looking too closely into the facts does not serve Palins shrill partisan objectives.
At the end of this election we're going to have a new board game called "Six Degrees of Separation" but the GOP edition will lack the last four.
only sarah make so much noise without saying anything of substance.
This vessel is really realy empty
John McCain has stated the He respects George W. and is proud of his relationship with him. ENOUGH SAID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>Chirs, Michigan October 29th, 2008 3:02 pm ET
She's a total disgrace to the entire nation.
Even Alaska will denouce this evil woman soon.<<
They already HAVE! The Good People of Alaska are just waiting for her to come home. Next on the agenda is IMPEACHMENT!
A favorite line of many Alaskans:
"Hey Sarah...I can see the end of your political career from my house"!
oh boy gollyee.joe the non plumer palen the non politican all she is about is lies just like joe non plumber.PAY YOUR TAXES JOE .GO BACK HOME YOU IGNORENT WITCH
Xenophobe and Secessionist. What an ugly combination for a person one heartbeat away from the White House.
Hey guys, tell Gov Palin with that much dough in Alaska, there lucky our business doesn't extend all the way over there! LOL!!!!
What a slow b--! And by the way, tell her we're waiting for that deal! LOL!!
This is old as McCain and Miss Piggy go back to Alaska and shoot wolves from a plane or something !!!!!
Senator Obama attended a dinner party where Khalidi went too but your so called McCain gave Khalidi $450,000 in grants?
You "Independent but Leaning" and Lee in CA find out the truth before you ask for a video. Do both of you have control on anyone who attend a party that you go to? Do you refused to go to your kid's school's functions because maybe someone who have issue with the law might be there?
Who is more connected to Khalidi? McCain of course, who donated a lump sum of money to an organization co-founded by Professor Khalidi.
Very Pathetic.
Vote Obama/Biden
From Audacity of Hope:
"I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."
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Oh I see... so the Republicans want us to hate all Muslims and anyone who supports them. Now I get your agenda. You Republicans are just like al Queda and your version of al Jezeera is Fox News.
Enough already.
I guess Palin would have us shut down American universities as well? She's pathetic.
I'm democrat, planning to vote Obama and I want to see this if it's real.I feel that I have every right to see it. If it were the other camp or Hillary we would have already seen it 50 times over . Very unfair to the American Public I don't care what politics you are.
McCain authorized money for Khalidi, Obama did not.
Khalidi has been involved in Palestinian causes. Ask John McCain about that, because McCain and Khalidi appear to have some joint interests, and that fact speaks very well of both of them. Indeed, the McCain–Khalidi connections are more substantial than the phony Obama–Khalidi connections. The Republican party’s congressionally funded international-networking organization, the International Republican Institute–long and ably chaired by John McCain and headed by McCain’s close friend, the capable Lorne Craner–has taken an interest in West Bank matters. IRI funded an ambitious project, called the Palestine Center, that Khalidi helped to support. Khalidi served on the Center’s board of directors. The goal of that project, shared by Khalidi and McCain, was the promotion of civic consciousness and engagement and the development of democratic values in the West Bank. Of course, McCain is not interested in looking too closely into the facts, because they would not serve his shrill partisan objectives.
I have a suggestion for McCain, if he really digs down deep enough, he will come up with a Hyde Park figure who stood in constant close contact with Barack Obama and who, unlike Ayers and Khalidi, really did influence Obama’s thinking about law, government, and policy. He is to my way of thinking a genuine radical. His name is Richard Posner, and he appears to be the most frequently and positively cited judge and legal academic in… National Review.
stop creating the fear..palin