LA Times going to the mat for their boy Obama

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That's a good first step, now let's see McCain get on the stump and call for it himself. There's no time for him to play around here, he's much too far behind with election day this close.
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McCain's best approach is obvious. He should start claiming that Obama secretly supports the PLO and that he said as much at that dinner. After all, his father was a muslim, his family in Kenya supports muslim atrocities against Christians and he is supported by various muslim groups.

Do we really want a muslim sympathizer in the White House?
 
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McCain's best approach is obvious. He should start claiming that Obama secretly supports the PLO and that he said as much at that dinner. After all, his father was a muslim, his family in Kenya supports muslim atrocities against Christians and he is supported by various muslim groups.

Do we really want a muslim sympathizer in the White House?
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It seems you missed these posts the first few times around:
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GUILT-BY-ASSOCIATION WATCH.... Apparently, some years back, as part of his career in academia, Barack Obama attended a going-away party for Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi, a Palestinian American.

John McCain and his campaign have joined right-wing bloggers in thinking there's something sinister about Obama having known Khalidi, who conservatives insist was an aide to Yasser Arafat -- a claim that has not stood up well to scrutiny.

As long as McCain wants to go down this road, though it's probably worth fleshing out his own ties to the same professor.

During the 1990s, while he served as chairman of the International Republican Institute (IRI), McCain distributed several grants to the Palestinian research center co-founded by Khalidi, including one worth half a million dollars.

A 1998 tax filing for the McCain-led group shows a $448,873 grant to Khalidi's Center for Palestine Research and Studies for work in the West Bank. (See grant number 5180, "West Bank: CPRS" on page 14 of this PDF.)

The relationship extends back as far as 1993, when John McCain joined IRI as chairman in January. Foreign Affairs noted in September of that year that IRI had helped fund several extensive studies in Palestine run by Khalidi's group, including over 30 public opinion polls and a study of "sociopolitical attitudes."

Now, just to be clear, what's wrong with McCain having directed thousands of dollars in grants to Khalidi's research center? Not a thing. As far as I can tell, no one has questioned Khalidi's scholarship or the work of the Center for Palestine Research and Studies.

McCain and his cohorts, however, believe there's a lingering scandal about Obama having gone to Khalidi's going-away party some years back. The hypocrisy is breathtaking, even for them.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_10/015427.php
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During the 1990s, while he served as chairman of the International Republican Institute (IRI), McCain distributed several grants to the Palestinian research center co-founded by Khalidi, including one worth half a million dollars.

A 1998 tax filing for the McCain-led group shows a $448,873 grant to Khalidi's Center for Palestine Research and Studies for work in the West Bank. (See grant number 5180, "West Bank: CPRS" on page 14 of this PDF.)

The relationship extends back as far as 1993, when John McCain joined IRI as chairman in January. Foreign Affairs noted in September of that year that IRI had helped fund several extensive studies in Palestine run by Khalidi's group, including over 30 public opinion polls and a study of "sociopolitical attitudes.""

McCain's bad judgment comes through again as he allows an attack on a subject where he is on quicksand.

http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/29/w...rashid-khalidi/

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Quote from seneca_roman:

You got to give credit to the American people, who managed to get through an entire evening of debate without ever once asking a question about William Ayers. It's almost as if the public has more pressing things on their minds these days. Of course, this is what everyone's been talking about since the weekend! What if they gave a debate and no one came with discussion of the voguish idiot question du jour?

Well rest assured, America, after the debate there was one venue where discussion on Ayers came hot and heavy: the Fox News Channel. I think it's all they talked about, actually! Everytime we tuned over to Fox, it was "YAAAAAAGHH OBAMA'S TERRORIST PAL!" Fred Thompson wanted to talk about it! Karl Rove wanted to talk about. And most of all, Sean Hannity wanted to talk about it with Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs, who'd already endured the business end of Mark Halperin's idiot vlog on the subject. Well, finally, Gibbs decided he just wasn't having any more of it, and in precisely the sort of parry that one wanted to see turned the guilt-by-association game on Hannity, asking him, "Are you anti-Semitic?" Soon, the conversation was a mess of yelling and crosstalk, with Gibbs loudly asking why Hannity would give a hatemonger a primo forum, and Hannity responding, "BENJAMIN NETANYAHU BLURBED MY BOOK! YAAHHHH! LOUD NOISES!"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/08/robert-gibbs-confronts-ha_n_132842.html
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Hey republicans, change your own dirty shorts before you start hollering I smell shit.

This of course refers to the republican party and not anyone's personal life.
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Quote from james_bond_3rd:

If this is not bigotry, I don't know what is.
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Actually, it's called a legitimate issue.

But you are showing an aptitude for a position with the mainstream media. Too bad they are all going out of business.
 
Quote from AAAintheBeltway:

Actually, it's called a legitimate issue.

But you are showing an aptitude for a position with the mainstream media. Too bad they are all going out of business.
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Why is "muslim sympathizer" a legitimate issue but "christian sympathizer" not?
 
Quote from Thunderdog:

It seems you missed these posts the first few times around:
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I guess you really are that stupid.

I said if McCain wanted to get the tape out, he should follow this strategy. Say that Obama said stuff at the dinner so bad that Obama would demand the tape be released to prove he said something milder.

I realize anything more sophisticated than calling Gov. Palin a c*nt is hard for you to follow, so maybe you should just let bigdave from the Obama campaign handle the talking points. After all, it is his full time job.
 
Quote from AAAintheBeltway:

The GOP is left with its unofficial motto, "We may be bad, but we're not as bad as the alternative." That is certainly true but voters are tired of it.
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Not many people are left who still think that's true, simply because it's hard to out fail the Republican actual record, and hypotheticals about how they "would" do better than someone else are fun and entertaining, but not reality.
 
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