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)
Michelle Obama and Barack Obama listen to Professor Edward Said give the keynote address at an Arab community event in Chicago, May 1998. (Photo: Ali Abunimah)
Note Obama in Muslim looking garb.....
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)
Worth asking about Obama's relationship with the good Professor. Does he condemn Edward Said, haven't heard it yet.
If not what does he think of Professor Said's choice of recreation, stoning Jews. OK, the IDF won't fire back, still shame on Columbia. Shame on Obama unless he speaks out.
Looks like fun. Something else they have in common, a tolerance for racism, anti-Americanism, and genocide. And yes, I know he's "denounced" his pastor's advocacy of a Hamas solution in the middle east, which refusing to denounce his mentor.
I have been unable to live an uncommitted or suspended life. I have not hesitated to declare my affiliation with an extremely unpopular cause.
Said or Obama?
