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Obama concedes mistake over Muslim outreach meeting
NBC News Investigates ^ | October 9, 2008 | Jim Popkin, NBC News Senior Investigative Producer

Posted on 10/10/2008 6:26:21 PM PDT by daytrader

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.

Several participants told NBC News that Husaini and other speakers delivered a standard Obama campaign pitch. “They said, ‘We’re here to get the concerns of Muslim voters and let everyone know that the Obama campaign does want the support of the Muslim community,’ ” recalled one participant, who requested anonymity. The meeting was not advertised and some attendees got text phone messages notifying them that day of the meeting’s location, the participant said.

Nearly a month later, the meeting is drawing controversy--and not because of anything said at the meeting itself.

(Excerpt) Read more at deepbackground.msnbc.msn.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 2008; arabamericans; hussein; islam; muslim; muslimvote; obama; rop; soetoro; trop; va2008
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To: daytrader

41 posted on 10/10/2008 9:43:33 PM PDT by JeepInMazar (http://www.truthformuslims.com)
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To: RasterMaster

42 posted on 10/10/2008 10:37:22 PM PDT by Blogger
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To: babyfreep

Is that a real photo...not photo-shopped? Do you have a link to the original for me? Thanks.


43 posted on 10/10/2008 11:24:03 PM PDT by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig (There once was a dream called, "Hippy Beat Down." The mere whisper of if caused cops to cry.")
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To: babyfreep

McCain needs to come out and say that our most dangerous enemy is Islamic fascism. He could also say that radical Muslim yearn for a world without a strong and engaged United States.


44 posted on 10/10/2008 11:34:04 PM PDT by TheThinker (It is the natural tendency of government to gravitate towards tyranny.)
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To: TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig

I got it off somebody’s blog - but here’s the source:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/05/21/books/obama-reads-533.jpg

You can probably Google “post-american world” obama and find more.


45 posted on 10/11/2008 12:23:05 AM PDT by babyfreep
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To: TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig

Snopes says it true.


46 posted on 10/11/2008 1:41:34 AM PDT by proudtobeanamerican1 (God Bless Sarah Palin and her Family.)
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To: TheThinker

“McCain needs to come out and say that our most dangerous enemy is Islamic fascism. He could also say that radical Muslim yearn for a world without a strong and engaged United States.” - TheThinker

This is a great statement - send it to the McCain camp - hopefully he will use it in the debate!


47 posted on 10/11/2008 4:29:13 AM PDT by DocT111
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To: grobdriver

Odinga could sleep in the Lincoln bedroom!


48 posted on 10/11/2008 9:45:34 AM PDT by combat_boots (God, gun and babies. Justices, taxes and sovereignty. Otherwise known as White Trash. Count me in.)
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To: combat_boots

Here is something interesting and encouraging. I engage in subterfuge at youtube with the Kool-Aid crowd, I’m sure the undecided are reading too.

I have asked many Kool-Aid drinkers on youtube to search Barack Obama and Raila Odinga and tell them to watch the 8 minute video and then write me back and tell me they’re still comfortable with Obama.

I haven’t heard back from ONE of them, not ONE!!

Take a few minutes each day on political ads on youtube and politely ask people the question I asked.


49 posted on 10/11/2008 9:46:34 AM PDT by word_warrior_bob (You can now see my amazing doggie and new puppy on my homepage!! Come say hello to Jake & Sonny)
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To: grobdriver
It is a difference of spreading manure everywhere, BUT now having to WEAR it for all to see the TRUTH of his FRAUD, EVIL, MISDEEDS!!!


50 posted on 10/11/2008 9:50:14 AM PDT by Colonial Warrior (Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear, or a fool from any direction.)
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To: daytrader

Political expedience is the Meme of the Obama campaign.

No wonder Americans are Angry. Obama track record...

Say one thing to their face and another behind their backs..

How does America fare with a President that is like that?

In these critical times that kind of President may well get us all KILLED. Obama simply DANGEROUS.


51 posted on 10/11/2008 10:46:14 AM PDT by tomnbeverly (Night of the Obama Zombies (Premier 11/04/08. Coming to a neighborhood near you))
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To: Lady GOP
Reminds me of another video of what zerobama is really like.
52 posted on 10/11/2008 2:11:25 PM PDT by Issaquahking (Maverick Barracuda voter! Drill baby drill!!)
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To: Issaquahking

Ive seen that one too. Brainwashing them and it begins in youth for sure.


53 posted on 10/11/2008 5:32:07 PM PDT by Lady GOP
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To: daytrader

ping


54 posted on 10/11/2008 5:43:20 PM PDT by AnimalLover ( ((Are there special rules and regulations for the big guys?)))
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To: grobdriver

Its odd that whenever you meet with a group of Muslims, half of them turn out to have radical or Hamas or terror ties. What an odd coincidence.


55 posted on 10/11/2008 5:55:08 PM PDT by omega4179 (Capitalism 2008!)
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To: omega4179

He is THEIR GUY. They will be happy if he is elected. God help us all if they unleash a terror attack with Barry and the liberals in control.


56 posted on 10/12/2008 7:24:40 AM PDT by Lady GOP
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