Posted on 10/28/2008 4:22:25 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
(one of the prettiest photos we’ve ever seen of Michelle):
From the article! LOL
Pretty sure that’s Edward Said... who is just as/more nutty than Khalidi.
He is a lovely man. /s
Here is a picture of him throwing rocks at Israeli soldiers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Edward_Said_thowing_a_stone_at_Israeli_soldiers.jpg
and here is a picture of his poster in the West Bank.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Poster_of_Edward_Said.jpg
IIRC, that is the honoree, Palestinian terrorist supporter Rhashid Khalidi, and his wife Mona, who was founder and CEO of some Arab organization in Chicago.
This was the farewell dinner for him - he was leaving Univ of Chicago and going to Columbia. He was buds with Edward Said at NYU, another charming anti Israel hatemonger.
Thank you for the clarification.
Seeing picture at your link I think you are correct, it is Said.
Sorry for wrong info.
From left to right, Michelle Obama, then Illinois state senator Barack Obama, Columbia University Professor Edward Said and Mariam Said at a May 1998 Arab community event in Chicago at which Edward Said gave the keynote speech. (Image from archives of Ali Abunimah)
And how's your security clearance application coming along?
Photos are starting to surface.
Defiant said: The LA Times is the only source for the tape.
I’m not so sure of that. Read below, part of the the original article from the Times, about the dinner Barak was at, April 10, 2008 by Peter Wallsten. (Read in Caps below: It says they got a copy of the taped event, not that they taped it.) So who was tapeing it?
While teaching at the University of Chicago, Khalidi and his wife lived in the Hyde Park neighborhood near the Obamas. The families became friends and dinner companions.
In 2000, the Khalidis 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 served on the fund’s board of directors.
At Khalidi’s going-away party in 2003, the scholar lavished praise on Obama, telling the mostly Palestinian American crowd that the state senator deserved their help in winning a U.S. Senate seat. “You will not have a better senator under any circumstances,” Khalidi said.
THE EVENT WAS VIDEOTAPED, AND A COPY OF THE TAPE WAS OBTAINED BY THE TIMES.
Though Khalidi has seen little of Sen. Obama in recent years, Michelle Obama attended a party several months ago celebrating the marriage of the Khalidis’ daughter.
In interviews with The Times, Khalidi declined to discuss specifics of private talks over the years with Obama. He did not begrudge his friend for being out of touch, or for focusing more these days on his support for Israel — a stance that Khalidi calls a requirement to win a national election in the U.S., just as wooing Chicago’s large Arab American community was important for winning local elections.
Khalidi added that he strongly disagrees with Obama’s current views on Israel, and often disagreed with him during their talks over the years. But he added that Obama, because of his unusual background, with family ties to Kenya and Indonesia, would be more understanding of the Palestinian experience than typical American politicians.
“He has family literally all over the world,” Khalidi said. “I feel a kindred spirit from that.”
LOL
DANM, Vera’s cute! No wonder “Geraldine” is so upset!
Brilliant!
This strategy would almost certainly lead to release of the tape. By the time it is released, the buzz created ensures that the tape gets big time play.
That’s the late Edward Said on Barack Obama’s left (our right).
This 1998 dinner had Said as the keynote speaker, so Obama was already being treated as a major up-and-comer by the organizers, to be seated next to the guest of honor.
Said died in 2003. He was one of the most virulent anti-American, pro-terrorist left-wing academics around.
More beloved and influential on the far left than just about any contemporary academic after nutbag Noam Chomsky.
Just the photo of Obama jawing closely with Said ought to make anyone who cares about Israel’s survival VERY nervous.
Nope, that photo is of the Saids with the Obamas at a 1998 event for which the late Edward Said was the keynote speaker.
Another gathering of anti-American radicals, with Obama right in the heart of things.......
Vera Baker absconded to the Carribean with the missing Khalidi/Obama tape and is blackmailing the Obama campaign!!
/SARCASM
fwiw, someone who has the tape or who can access it stands to make a real pile of money from one side or the other..... I’d love to be a fly on the wall for some discussions that may be going on right now.
Suffice it to say she's been doing plenty of "banking".
I hear rumors of wars...
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