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Obama concedes mistake over Muslim outreach meeting
[p]msnbc ^ | 10/10/08 | Jim Popkin, NBC News Senior Investigative Producer

Posted on 10/10/2008 2:20:40 PM PDT by mathprof

The Obama campaign’s Muslim outreach director participated in a meeting in mid September that was attended by several controversial Muslim activists, NBC News has learned. The Obama campaign now concedes that was a misjudgment, and that its top Muslim staffer would not have attended the meeting if she had known the full participant list beforehand.

“Would a campaign staffer have attended if they were aware of the complete list of attendees? No,” said Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt in an email statement to NBC.

The Muslim outreach meeting On September 15, newly named Muslim outreach director Minha Husaini spoke to a small group of Muslim leaders and potential Obama supporters at a hotel in Springfield, Virginia, several meeting participants and the campaign said. Two other Obama-affiliated Democratic Party workers joined Husaini and also spoke to the crowd. Some Virginia and Washington, D.C.-based Muslim activists and interested citizens attended, and flyers were passed out from “Arab Americans for Obama” stating Sen. Obama’s goals for achieving peace in the Middle East, protecting the civil liberties of Arab Americans and ending the war in Iraq. [snip]

One meeting attendee was Mahdi Bray of the Muslim American Society, several of the participants said. The MAS website describes Bray as an imam and “long time civil and human rights activist.” Bray’s critics say he has a history of defending terrorists. They point to a video of Bray at a rally in 2000, for example, in which he can be seen pumping his fist in the air in support of the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah. In a 2004 interview, he called the Israeli assassination of a Hamas spiritual leader an “unlawful, cowardly and dangerous act of state-sponsored terrorism.” Bray did not return a call requesting comment.

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I'm shocked! Shocked!
1 posted on 10/10/2008 2:20:40 PM PDT by mathprof
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To: mathprof

Pants-on-fire alert!


2 posted on 10/10/2008 2:21:37 PM PDT by RedCell (Honor thy Father (9/6/07) - Semper Fi)
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To: mathprof

I love the way NBC included Obama’s mea culpa. ‘Nuff said, right?


3 posted on 10/10/2008 2:22:45 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: mathprof

And when you put a few of these folks into your administration, Mr. Obama, would that just be a mere mistake or misunderstanding, or you just don’t know who they are and what they stand for????


4 posted on 10/10/2008 2:23:50 PM PDT by keepitreal ("I'm Barack Obama and I approve this message. . . until I don't.")
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To: mathprof

“This isn’t the Tupperware party?!?”


5 posted on 10/10/2008 2:24:12 PM PDT by hsrazorback1 (To get what you had, do what you did.)
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To: mathprof

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!! ‘Cause Obama doesn’t pal around with terrorists!!!!!


6 posted on 10/10/2008 2:25:54 PM PDT by Yaelle (One candidate fought America's enemies and one candidate owes all he has to America's enemies)
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To: bray

Bray? a mooslim? say it ain’t so, Joe.


7 posted on 10/10/2008 2:25:55 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (don't worry, they only want to take water out of the other guy's side of the bucket.)
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To: mathprof
I call B.S. They knew damn well who was going to be there. This is now their playbook response, "I/We didn't know at the time." That along with calling anyone who challenges them on any point a racist! again I call Bullsh*t!
regards
8 posted on 10/10/2008 2:28:01 PM PDT by hewhowaits
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To: mathprof

The only thing Buraq Hussein Obama is sorry for is getting caught.


9 posted on 10/10/2008 2:29:58 PM PDT by Tarpon (Barrack Obama will ban all the guns he has the votes for ...)
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To: mathprof

The Obama campaign now concedes that was a misjudgment,

Honestly, does this guy have any judgment OTHER than MISjudgment?


10 posted on 10/10/2008 2:30:28 PM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32 (I'm a Patriot Guard Rider. www.patriotguard.org for info. MAVERICK/BARRACUDA '08)
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To: mathprof

Obama admits it was a misjudgment for him to reveal his affinities for Islam before the election.


11 posted on 10/10/2008 2:31:56 PM PDT by PeterFinn (Buraq HUSSEIN Obama. If the libs don't like his name then why support him?)
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“This isn’t the Tupperware party?!?”

"...and the air-tight lid will keep the vapors of the explo... er... flavor of the food in!

Jesus / Buddha / Ahura Mazda, someone save us before this bastard steals the election.

12 posted on 10/10/2008 2:31:59 PM PDT by CE2949BB (McCain/Palin 08)
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To: mathprof

The real mistake: Obama’s candidacy


13 posted on 10/10/2008 2:33:50 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Is Obamanation what our founding fathers, our fallen men in combat, and Ronald Reagan had in mind?)
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To: CE2949BB
WARNING: Hate speech alert.

Wait for it . . .

Hussein



No big deal, Barry. You are what you have made of yourself.
14 posted on 10/10/2008 2:35:39 PM PDT by Thickman (Term limits are the answer.)
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To: mathprof

The man who would be king is starting to step on his di##! He is not as good as he thinks, a liar cannot remember all of his lies because they are not the truth. Truth is mroal conviction and comes naturally


15 posted on 10/10/2008 2:36:59 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (THE NEW MILLIONAIRES CLUB : YOUR FRIENDLY NIEGHBORHOOD CONGRESSMEN)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

Please it is not Barak Hussien Obama, It’s Barak Millhouse Obama!


16 posted on 10/10/2008 2:38:47 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (THE NEW MILLIONAIRES CLUB : YOUR FRIENDLY NIEGHBORHOOD CONGRESSMEN)
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To: mathprof

Another "renegade staffer" goes under the bus by Team Obama.

17 posted on 10/10/2008 2:43:05 PM PDT by RasterMaster ("CHANGE is not a destination - HOPE is not a strategy!" Rudy Guiliani RNC 2008)
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To: Yaelle

Once again.......A muslim will never support a Christian. Does that tell you anything about Obama?


18 posted on 10/10/2008 2:45:23 PM PDT by RC2
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To: mathprof

This is not the Muslim outreach program that I used to know...


19 posted on 10/10/2008 2:46:34 PM PDT by ladyvet (WOLVERINES!!!!!)
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To: mathprof
"The Obama campaign now concedes that was a misjudgment..."


Ya' know...I fully expected to see the word "distraction."

Whatever it is, I'm sure it's not good for Michelle's kids.

20 posted on 10/10/2008 2:46:48 PM PDT by dixiechick2000 (Sarah'cuda Rocks)
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