Posted on 10/29/2008 3:59:44 PM PDT by Enchante
We need to try to find a transcript of the 1998 address -- I have been poking around on this site trying to see if it exists:
http://www.edwardsaid.org/?q=node/1
I imagine that Edward Said gave a very radical anti-Israel talk, since that is why he would have been invited to an Arab-American activist group doing a fundraiser.
How did Obama get CHOSEN (from among all the attendees who must have included eminent academics, popular activists, the cream of left-wing Chicago) to sit in the place of honor next to the night's speaker, Edward Said.
If you think about it, that is an astonishing juxtaposition. Obama was still almost unknown in 1998 - he was a very junior state legislator. He had published his first "memoir" but it had not sold well at all -- he was not yet the best-selling "author" (if indeed he is an "author" at all) or US Senator or Presidential candidate.....
YET, from among all the leftists and pro-jihad activists in the Chicago area he, Barack Obama, was selected to sit next to the guest of honor and keynote speaker.
My hypothesis is that Obama and Said had known each other well since Obama's days at Columbia U. (where Said had been one of the most radical faculty members since the 1970s). I suspect that Obama took courses with Said or at least knew him from "3rd World" and pro-PLO events around campus.
There is just no way that Obama gets picked out of the blue to be seated right next to Edward Said for the big keynote address in 1998. There had to be some major connection(s) behind the scenes.
Article here is what Edward Said wrote right around the same period in 1998. It is how he maligns Israel's 50th Anniversary.
Another hypothesis: I would bet $$$ that Edward Said gave a similar kind of diatribe for his "keynote address" to Obama and the audience. They certainly were not there to hear Said discourse on literary theory. IF we could find proof of Obama's affinities for Edward Said and Rashid Khalidi's radical pro-Palestinian activism that would help to show the falsity of Obama's pretence of 100% support for Israel.
Edward Said is still dead.
;^)
article above is the kind of anti-Israel propaganda that Edward Said was publishing right around the time he gave his 1998 “keynote address” to the Chicago dinner from which that photo of the Obamas sitting next to the Saids has been posted on other threads......
My hypothesis is that Obama and Said were close, that Said was very likely a mentor of young Obama at Columbia — they were in different departments but student Obama could easily have taken courses and studied with Said, attended “3rd World” and pro-Palestinian events together, etc. That sort of thing happens all the time, especially in the more radical sectors of the student and faculty populations.
No way would the almost unknown Obama have been designated to sit next to Said at that speech unless there was some personal and/or ideological connection. NO WAY.
Our task is to find the connection(s). This may be why Obama’s thesis and transcript from Columbia have been suppressed. This may fill in the picture of Obama and Khalid and Ayers. Said was the grandaddy to all kinds of academic and pro-jihad radicals in the 1980s and 90s.
Yeah, but I want to know if there were long-standing connections between him and Obama, quite possibly going back to Obama’s student days at Columbia — where Said was a radical prof for his entire career.
This could explain why everything about Obama’s years at Columbia U. has been suppressed. It could well go to the radical pathways that Obama has followed in the shadows over the past 20 years, and it could help to prove the LIE that Obama pretends to be a strong supporter of Israel.
link to Said’s works, in case anyone else can help with trying to find anything relevant to Said, Khalidi, Obama, and NY-Chicago radicals:
http://www.edwardsaid.org/?q=node/1
High Volume. Articles on Israel can also be found by clicking on the Topic or Keyword Israel. or WOT [War on Terror]
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Wonder what Obama and Said were discussing at the suddenly famous party for Khalidi. Looks like they're having fun. Michelle looks bored, or hungry.
I know, vacations! Stoning Jews is such fun!
Maybe Barry got an invitation to accompany Said on his next trip.
Yeah, I suspect a lot of stuff has been “cleansed” from the Internet to try to cover up embarrassing info on anti-Israel and anti-USA radicals with whom the Obamessiah has “palled around” in the past 30 years.
Actually, the first photo is from 1998 when Said was the guest speaker, not the 2003 farewell party for Khalidi (according to what I have been seeing around the web) — it was Obama seated next to Said when Said was the honored keynote speaker in 1998 at a fundraising event for Khalidi’s activist group.
I find it astonishing that Obama was selected out of all the radical academics and activists in the Chicago area to be seated next to the guest of honor. Why not Khalidi, why not any one of a number of other Chicago radicals? Granted, people may have been expecting big things from Obama, but at that point in time there were plenty of Chicago area radical academics and activists who were much more prominent. I suspect that Obama and Said had some significant personal connection, probably going back to Obama’s student days at Columbia.
Edward Said was Obama’s English professor at Columbia and at the same time was a close friend of William Ayers (Who was studying less than a quarter mile away at Bank Street College of Education).
Yup! Obama and Ayers go back to 1982....
Oops, you’re right. But I wonder what they had to say then too. Can’t blame him for the fundraising, after all believe Khalidi was one of Obama’s biggest fundraisers. hand washes the other in Chicago politics, and political leprocy is never a concern.
YUP. There are reasons that Obama’s Columbia U. days are such a blank in his media bio. Why have we not seen ANY of his fellow students and undergrad profs interviewed???? He made all kinds of radical connections and alliances there, and now he is the stealth Obamessiah promoting “change” which much of his real bio is blank.
A Manchurian Candidate of the radical left and “3rd World” anti-Israel, pro-terrorist subversives.
Fox News tracked down 400 of his graduating class -no one knew him , or would admit to it.
The Libertarian Party VP choice, Root, was also in his graduating class and has attended several class re-unions. He says no one remembers him, or ever saw him on campus....strange...
EVERY LAST THING about Obama that might interfere with his march to the White House is being suppressed by the drive-by’s.
Edward Said is yet another radical footnote in Obama’s past. One of the more hateful leftwing academaniacs, BTW.
God bless Israel!
A homosexual Christian Egyptian turned Fannonite liberationist and "Palestinian nationalist", Said has been a one man path of destruction. That he and his protoge, Khalidi were friends of Obama is no surprise. What is surprising is that none of this will phase voters. they just don't get the dangers of the PC left, and cannot fathom what one of these radical professors would do as president.
Well written and compelling — sorry it gives some cranks a problem. I do wish we’d quit trying to go after Obama with the “he’s no friend of Israel” stuff. It’s wasting time and effort we can’t afford to lose with a socialist dictator wannabe ahead less than a week before the election. This conservative couldn’t care less. Jews need Israel like a fish needs a bicycle.
Not sure who you are lumping under the label “cranks” but yours is a very ignorant post. These issues go to the heart of Obama’s credibility, honesty, judgment, and character. It is not a minor issue whether the Obamessiah has drastically re-made himself in the past couple of years to pretend to be an acceptable candidate for a majority of Americans.
I agree that there are other substantive issues of immense importance but if you really think the Said piece is “compelling” then you don’t know much at all.
Also, it’s not just that “he’s no friend of Israel” — it’s that Obama will lie about anything and everything to win this election. That has been seen on many fronts, and there are 6 days left to shred his credibility with the remaining voters who are still susceptible to persuasion.
Do you really think it’s irrelevant (in electoral terms) to try to convince a few thousand Floridians that Obama is a liar and fraud when it comes to his pretence that he is a staunch supporter of Israel?
I suspect that Obama took courses with Said or at least
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Forget the source but Obama took English course from Eddie
You are probably an atheist from the way you cast aside Israel
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