Posted on 02/27/2008 10:42:09 PM PST by FocusNexus
Democratic presidential frontrunner Sen. Barack Obama served as a paid director on the board of a nonprofit organization that granted funding to a controversial Arab group that mourns the establishment of Israel as a "catastrophe."
The co-founder of the Arab group, Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi, is a harsh critic of Israel who reportedly worked on behalf of the Palestine Liberation Organization when it was labeled a terror group by the State Department.
Khalidi held a fundraiser in 2000 for Obama's failed bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Although AAAN co-founder Rashid Khalidi has at times denied working directly for the PLO, he reportedly served as director of the official PLO press agency WAFA in Beirut from 1976 to 1982, a period during which the PLO committed scores of anti-Western attacks and was labeled by the U.S. as a terror group.
While the Woods Fund's contribution to Khalidi's AAAN might be perceived as a one-time contact with Obama, there is evidence of a deeper relationship between the presidential hopeful and Khalidi.
According to a professor at the University of Chicago who said he has known Obama for 12 years, the senator first befriended Khalidi when the two worked together at the university. The professor spoke on condition of anonymity. Khalidi lectured at the University of Chicago until 2003; Obama taught law there from 1993 until his election to the Senate in 2004.
Khalidi said he supports Obama for president "because he is the only candidate who has expressed sympathy for the Palestinian cause."
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This keeps getting better.
Anti-Obama Attacks Zero In on Farrakhan Support, Israel Policy
Barack Obama’s detractors are trying to make hay out of an unsought endorsement by Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan, adding to the rumors and innuendo about the Democratic presidential candidate’s religious affiliations and casting Obama as a threat to Israel.
Farrakhan, who has drawn attention for calling Judaism a “gutter religion,” dubbed the Illinois senator the “hope of the entire world” on Sunday.
The article said Clinton operatives are also circulating e-mails questioning his relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the recently retired pastor at Obama’s Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. The church magazine gave Farrakhan the 2007 lifetime achievement award for social justice (though Obama said he disagreed with the decision).
“What you talkin’ about Hillary”
As a member of the board, he either is a total fool, or is a terrorist supporter.
Either way how can he be president?
Another good article, detailing Barack Hussein Obama’s unsavory assoications:
The Obama Files by John Batchelor
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1976100/posts
“The story focuses on four astute men who have little in common other than Mr. Obama: Messrs Rezko, Ayers, Khalidi and Auchi. Finding facts about Mr. Obama’s exchanges with this quartet creates much of what can be called a political profile of candidate Obama. “
Haven’t most liberal politicians done this? They all support Palestinians, or as I like to call them, terroristic Jordanians, so hating Israel is not that uncommon for democrats.
More dirt......thanks for the thread. This is the craziest election year since I’ve been able to vote.
I pray that this “puppy love” phenomenon with him
last but a short time.
BTW, Iran must be dealt with soon (months). Diplomacy and tactical information work won’t be enough.
Instead of reporting Farakkan's endorsement of Obama as a straight news story, and letting the reader form their own opinion, it's twisted to read "Obama’s detractors are trying to make hay out of an unsought endorsement."
Poor Obama; next thing you know, Al-Qaeda, Kim Jong-Il and/or Ahmadinejad will endorse him, and those nasty "detractors" will act like schoolyard bullies again with all those logical implications.
The media, including Fox, is bulletproofing the messiah.
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Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar University of Illinois at Chicago billayers.org
The William Ayers Problem:
William Ayers is an unrepentant terrorist, though he is normally described as a distinguished education professor. One does not necessarily rule out the other, but he himself acknowledges planting bombs in U.S. Federal buildings.
There is now undeniable proof of a longstanding relationship between Barack Obama and William Ayers. We are not talking about two guys who just happened to bump into one another on the street. We are not talking about a secret admirer (Ayers) who quietly sent $200 to an aspiring politician.
No, we are talking about William Ayers hosting a fundraiser for Barack Obama and actively working with him to secure Barack's first electoral victory in Illinois. But wait, there is more. Barack and Ayers also served on the board of the Woods Fund. And they worked together to give money to some other folks, including a group with ties to the PLO.
What makes Ayers so toxic is his own written record equating U.S. Marines with terrorists. Look at the beating that John Kerry took for tossing his medals over the White House fence. Ayers did not toss medals, he threw bombs. Real ones. Bombs that exploded.
Do you think that Republicans will ignore Obama's ties to Ayers? The two were serving on the same board in 2002. We are talking less than six years ago and the record will come out showing some questionable grants by these two characters. William Ayers, in the age of terrorism, will be Barack Obama's Willie Horton.
The democrat party is pro Arab Islamic state in Israel in general and anti Christian and Jewish in works also. So of course they will do what Europe does as they are pro UN and anti American sovereignty anyway.
They all hate America in their love of perverse diveristy and the world citizen under totalitarion and cruel one world government is their end, even if they don’t think it is.
Yep, it’s a long way to November, plenty of time to shine a light on his background. It’s adding up and does not paint a favorable picture.
a lib/dem hero.....
all lib/dems are anti-american, anti-semetic, pro-f’n muzzie pali terrorists.......and that is why.....their standard bearer is....................b. HUSSEIN!!!!!
“Looks like Obama’s experience consists of associating with known terrorists — does this experience qualify him to be US Commander in Chief?”
To the Left and the MSM (but, I repeat myself) it does.
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