Rashid Khalidi
The Association Scumbags of the McCain Campaign are looking for one thing in the Rashid Khalidi tape… an image of Obama standing next to an Arab.
I am done being nice in any way about this campaign… scum, scum, nothing but scum.
The LA Times wrote this article last April. The McCain camp showed no interest until… two days ago. There is no indication whatsoever about Obama being influenced politically by Khalidi… in fact, both have agreed that they disagree on Khalidi’s positions on Israel. And now, knowing that the LAT will hold up their journalistic standards, John McCain is saying that he understands that Bill Ayers is in the tape too. At a college professor’s going away party… on his way to a new job at Columbia. So this way, they get to mine this crap and use the withholding of the tape as a scare tactic.
How can John McCain sleep at night?
How low has he sunk?
THIS is the mark of the man. THIS is what speaks about who this man has become. McCain was an honorable man who has become the very worst kind of political scumbag, using insinuation and alleged associations, trumped up well beyond reality, to try to scare a few people in thinking the black man is evil and untrustworthy.
I am beyond disgusted.
And before you bring up your bullshit, “this angers you because it scares you” line, think about what you are supporting here. We can disagree all day long on politics, but scum my tactics are scummy tactics, whatever side you are on. I am horrified that this system has brought this man so low. An American tragedy.
“He will do anything he can to win.” Hmmm. I wonder who that is now?
“The Association Scumbags of the McCain Campaign are looking for one thing in the Rashid Khalidi tape… an image of Obama standing next to an Arab.”
They deserve more credit than your racist smear suggests. McCain is looking for footage of Obama with a former spokesman for a terrorist organization, and perhaps something with fellow attendee Bill Ayers (I thought you already knew of every single instance these two were in the same room together).
From what I’ve read, its reasonable to conclude that Khalidi and Obama had divergent views on Israel/Palestine. The controversy surrounding the party is that there was some blatant anti-Semitic rhetoric that occurred.
Some interesting Khalidi quotes have resurfaced:
Still, Mr. Khalidi said ascertaining Mr. Obama
Just listening to McCain going off on Obama at a rally on MSNBC this morning made me think,”if I didn’t know it was McCain talking, I’d would’ve thought that the person speaking was a sleazeball”. At which point I realized, if McCain is talking like this, he has BECOME a sleazeball.
It’s just sad. Does he not realize that people like myself who disagreed with him politically but still maintained a great deal of respect for the guy are now seeing him as a craven and pathetic power junkie? His tone lately just drips something oily and unclean.
“a former spokesman for a terrorist organization”
False.
“fellow attendee Bill Ayers”
False.
We’re back to the bullshit. You think we need to see all the tapes of McCain and Keating in the same room… McCain and Jesse Helms… McCain and who?
You admit that there is no connection in the politics. So what’s the point? What besides trying to spin the association lie?
I am pleased that you are being so reasonable here, mystery… but you still can’t seem to bring yourself to admit that this it 100% irrelevant by any argument that is being made by the McCain camp. As is Ayers, about whom there are NO accusations of actual political agreement.
Watch McCain on Larry King… he won’t make any of the harsh acusations of claims of associations when there is someone there to ask a follow-up… even dotty old LK. And the accusation was so FALSE that CNN went out of its way to have King read the facts after the segment went to commercial.
(Best moment of the interview is when McCain starts his inferences about Khalidi, claiming that nefarious might be going on… then Larry asked him about Kahlidi like nothing had been said… and of course, McCain folded when asked what he thought might actually be worth examining.)
And Drudge, in his full scum, is claiming that LAT released the Ahnuld tapes in 2001… which they did not. And what they did do was scummy – waiting until the last minute to release an attack story about bad behavior with women on sets – and they got called on the carpet by most liberals I knew… even if they hoped he would be defeated by it.
Good call, DP.
The Wife and I were watching Bill and Barack on MSNBC and as always, I wondered what FAUX news was making of the event so, I flipped over. Would they be bringing up Bill’s infidelities? Baracks socialist and Marxist platforms?? What fresh BS did they dig up tonight to attempt to usurp yet another brilliant speech?
It wasn’t even on FOX “News.”
The likely next President…holding a midnight rally with a former President wasn’t even “news” enough for FOX.
I always like to look at Faux because I can see what scared them about Obama so while I was furious they have the gall to call themselves a news network yet refuse to show a candidate holding a rally, I stopped and thought.
There’s nooo wayyyy Faux wants their sheep seeing a guy telling the truth and dispelling the lies WcCain has laid out. Obama has the power to change borderline voters and THAT scares FOX. Their solution? Don’t show it and then try to poke holes in it later.
The subsequent Khaladi against the wall to see if he’ll stick routine on FOX (and, mystery talkingpointfectas comment) solidified my thought.
Thanks God only 6 more days or less….
“How can John McCain sleep at night?”
He’s old. I imagine he falls asleep at night, and during the day, fairly often.
DP, The time to get scared was a long time before this. The day it was determeined that these two clowns were going to be the tix for their parties, it was over for independents like myself. There is NO ONE worth voting for, if you fall into the middle of the road. That’s the saddest part of this election. It hasn’t gotten this ugly. It always has been and always will be.
Oh get over yourself EOTW. People like you love to act as if the doors should open, the seas should part, and the blow jobs should come aplenty to appease you. Sorry Charlie: you have to pick a side in this world. If you want to walk down the middle of the world. Realize Obama may be the closet you will ever get to such a candidate in your lifetime. Unless the man spends enough time in office to change politics.
If not: this is how it is. Pick a side. If you… you are only helpful to yourself, and not your nation.
If you don’t that is, but you are an INDEPENDENT. What a ridiculous word that is in terms of politics. It would be one thing if it truly worked, but all Independents tie themselves to one party or the other to get things accomplished. So there’s no independents in this world. There’s only these two parties.
We failed Mr. Adams. This does not mean that there’s no hope for the two party system, but it’s fucked until so called INDEPENDENTS decide stick to a side. If they did. The two parties could change. Unfortunately we will never know because INDEPENDENTS love to keep to themselves and their own lofty ideals.
Hey now IO…I’m “independent.” I left the Republican party a few months ago but refuse to join the Dems till they prove they aren’t complete passive morons. I consider it like being between jobs or places to live. Anybody got a decent platform I can crash on?
From the LA Times article in question:
“In the 1970s, when Khalidi taught at a university in Beirut, he often spoke to reporters on behalf of Yasser Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organization.”
How is this different from my “false” assertion?
Next, you yourself said that McCain was looking for Ayers on the videotape. How is this different than my “false” assertion?
I haven’t made anything of the Obama-Khalidi friendship; I only balked at your assertion that McCain wanted the tape to use as racial fearmongering. He wants it as part of his “associations” argument, and the failure to release the tape based on “journalistic integrity” (a claim I’m skeptical of) only gives the speculation a footing.
I am suprised that someone who found anti-Semitism in how closely Mel Gibson zoomed in on Jews in The Passion does not have an issue with Obama befriending, by your measure, a likely anti-Semite.
mystery would you agree that McCain also has questionable associations in his past? I am specifically referring to G. Gordon Liddy, Charles Keating and John Singlaub (who led the U.S. Council for World Freedom). And of course some are concerned by his recent attempts to cozy up to the religious right (which includes McCain
Mystery, please tell me how troubled you are by McCain funding Khalidi’s research in the 90’s?
He actually FUNDED Khalidi. Who is not a terrorist by the way.
I await your response.
Good point, Christian.
And to your point, mystery, I know racists and anti-Semites… surely anti-Zionists, which is what Khalidi seems to be. I have been at parties with them. You probably have too.
I did see anti-Semitism in Gibson’s film… but I wouldn’t spit on him if I saw him today. For one thing, I don’t think he is an anti-Semite. Some of his closest advisors are, indeed, jewish.
I grew up with a parent born in 1917. He didn’t hate black people, but he most assuredly grew up feeling there was in inferiority and he took that to his grave. I sit with a bunch of liberals, who I have discussed here before, who couldn’t be more pro-integration, equal rights, etc… and every day, they make racists and extremely sexist jokes in the course of conversation. But I don’t think they are racist or sexist in the most significant way… how they see the rights of others.
We live in a complicated era. We have at least two full generations that grew up with segregation or limited integration. And we have one generation that seems to be highly colorblind. That same generation grew up after Bill Ayers & The Weathermen felt compelled to raise arms against their own country in opposition to a war that is agreed by 95%+ of American and the world to have been immoral and illegal. If any group is in lockstep with what Ayers & co did, it is the extreme right which believes that abortion is murder and have gone to violent ends to express that belief and to save lives in their perception.
Finally… your “facts”…
Khalidi has stated, after that article, that he was NOT a spokesman for the PLO and fact checkers have agreed that there is no proof that he ever was. (Don’t just believe everything you read, mystery.)
And just because McCain is asserting that he thinks that Ayers might be on the tape does not mean that he is there. There is no indication, except for this claim, made a day into the McCain created controversy.
Did you know that on the 18 minutes of erased Nixon Oval Office tape that Nixon has sex with a donkey? Yes, Nixon loved beastiality. And if we had that 18 minutes, you would know that for sure. I can’t believe that Nixon didn’t keep a copy. He probably did. And now his family is hiding it.
The Wall Street Journal reaches a new editorial low.
Seriously, this is awe-inspiring in its hate:
“There is something odd — and dare I say novel — in American politics about the crowds that have been greeting Barack Obama on his campaign trail. Hitherto, crowds have not been a prominent feature of American politics. We associate them with the temper of Third World societies. We think of places like Argentina and Egypt and Iran, of multitudes brought together by their zeal for a Peron or a Nasser or a Khomeini. In these kinds of societies, the crowd comes forth to affirm its faith in a redeemer: a man who would set the world right.”
Isn’t Sarah Palin being greeted by huge crowds everywhere she goes?
That doesn’t count!
And it doesn’t count if it’s a Sean Hannity Freedom Concert.
The idiocy on display is…flabbergasting.
Excitement about a candidate is suspect.
Education is suspect.
Intellegence is suspect.
Race is suspect.
Associations in a college town are suspect.
Don’t think for a minute that power concedes without a fight.
On the other hand, The Economist endorsed Obama. And while their interests overlap with those of the WSJ, they represent a more globally-oriented set of upper-income types.
stella’s boy: “mystery would you agree that McCain also has questionable associations in his past?”
Sure. I’m fine with vetting all of these relationships.
“Do you find these as legitimate and potentially alarming as Obama
It’s interesting, but it couples an examination of what the writer thinks of Obama’s economic policies with statements like this:
“In recent days, those vast Obama crowds, though, have recalled for me the politics of charisma that wrecked Arab and Muslim societies.”
…which really is not well-connected to the economic thesis and makes it sound like he thinks Obama is a simple-minded banana republic demagogue, which is highly arguable.
That WSJ editorial is simple race-baiting disguised as an economics tract. Comparing an American speaker drawing large crowds to a Khomneni and “third world temper” is disgusting, not to mention stupid. But 60000 to see Palin…
Affluent white liberals? Not this one. A product of universities and churches? What does that even mean. I went to church throughout childhood and have degrees from two different universities. Am I a product of churches and universities too? Interesting too that I read that right after reading about Sarah Palin drawing more than 10,000 people to a small-town PA rally. I’d have to say it is decidedly not worth a read.