Posted on 04/10/2008 8:54:06 PM PDT by Winged Hussar
In 2000, Rashid Khalidi, a former PLO operative who justified Palestinian terrorism as contributing to "political enlightenment," threw a fundraiser for his friend Barack Obama.
Rashid Khalidi today is a professor at Columbia University and is a close associate of Barack Obama. Free Republic member No Quarter reported more on this relationship:
Khalidi has direct ties to Obama. These are not imagined. Before getting his job at Columbia University Rashid Khalidi was a Middle East professor at the University of Chicago, where he befriended none other than US presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama. In 2000 Khalidi held a successful fundraiser for Barack. I am not saying or inferring or suggesting that Obama did anything wrong in letting Khalidi hold a fund raiser. But I am willing to bet that it will become an issue in the general election. Barack also played a role in getting funding for Khalidis Arab American Action Network during his tenure on the board of the Woods Fund. That is another unexplored black hole.
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I don’t think you can really renounce being a Muslim.
Who knows how much money he has stashed away, and the sources it comes from??
The best thing to come out of Illinois recently is I-57 South.
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