Posted on 10/29/2008 10:16:12 PM PDT by jsdjason
“I ask again, who influenced who?”
My husband has REPEATEDLY made the statement that Senator Obama has been *groomed* for this.
Wish I was at home so could download that thing but I’m at work and therefore can’t get it. You better save this clip and store it somewhere, the Brownshirts will come looking for you..........
obama said in his book that he picked his friends carefully and sought out professors with Marxists views, black power socialist etc
why this was never made an issue to shut the Dems up saying he just knew them as a neighbor I don’t know
this is what I do not understand
I called a woman I know in NY who is Jewish, now she’s alright and never bothered with politics but she got married to this wacko guy who is so whacked he actually bought a house in Chappaqua so he could live in the same town as Clinton.
Anyway I am talking to her and she was surprised how anyone could like Palin, I asked her why she didn’t like her and all she said was “well she hired her family when she was gov”
Yep that’s it, this is the typical moonbats what have money and vote for this man obama.
I then told her about obama and this anti semitic guy and she said, get this
“obama never knew and most of this is made up by republicans”
Yes I felt like driving up to NY and saying hello McFly, get away form that idiot husband and get some sense back into you.
For the record she has a masters degree, so it proves you can have an education paid by mummy and daddy but still have no brains what so ever
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The period from about 4:44 to the end was the most telling when he was talking about Chicago Politics being a dirty game.
The rest of his rant on being anti Israel is typical as its always Israel’s fault. They want to destroy a free democracy and wipe out Israel. Nothing new here.
If you go to CharlieRose.com and do a search, you will find multiple interviews, possible that Khalidi mentions Obama.
This just proves degrees are way overrated.
just talked over e-mail and asked her if she would still vote knowing about this Rashid guy and the dinner he was at.
her response was I never knew
but here’s the best part
I will still vote for obama because I think he is a better friend to Israel
yep this is what she said
I swear I had to read it three times
obama a better friend to Israel the Dem better friend.
do these obama voters just walk around blind and deaf or something???.
Don't forget dumb.
I’m having an argument with her right now over e-mail as she refuses to believe any of it
does anyone know the writer of the article below
I have sent her many articles against this, does anyone have a piece by an Israeli media saying about this Rashid guy and then she might believe me
trying to get her to vote for McCain and if I get her to realise what oabma would do to Israel then she will change her vote to McCain
here’s the writer of the article she sent me.
Is he a big liberal, who is this guy???????????
I can put the article up here if anyone wants to see it.
need help on this to change her mind and vote
By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
Khalidi is a Jew-hating extremist who tries to pose as a bit more reasonable when talking to US media and academics, but every so often he lets the mask slip and rants against Israel. Obama had to know all about what Khalidi is about if they had so many personal dinners together, etc.
There are a bunch of good items about Khalidi on this blog by a Jewish professor, Martin Kramer, who knew Khalidi at U. Chicago:
Dr. Rashid and Mr. Khalidi
posted Monday, 5 January 2004
http://sandbox.blog-city.com/dr_rashid_and_mr_khalidi.htm
On December 11, Al-Jazeera’s program “From Washington” held a discussion on Middle Eastern studies in the United States. Chief guest: Professor Rashid Khalidi, the newly-seated incumbent of the Edward Said Chair in Arab Studies at Columbia University, and director of that university’s (government-subsidized) Middle East Institute. He said little that was original or surprising—until the end, when he blew a gasket and uttered the sort of thing he would only dare to say in Arabic.
It happened like this. At one point in the discussion, Khalidi criticized think tanks “that don’t want true dialogue with people whose views differ from their own, but who want to force their opinions on American citizens and the world.” He mentioned, by way of example, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, which he labelled “the fiercest of the enemies of the Arabs and the Muslims.”
The moderator, Hafiz al-Mirazi, played devil’s advocate. Hadn’t the Institute often hosted Arabs and others holding diverse views? It had provided a podium for Nabil Amr, Palestinian information minister, as well as Egyptian presidential adviser Osama al-Baz. Just recently, Washington Institute mainstay David Makovsky had written a joint op-ed with an Egyptian writer from Al-Ahram (the reference was to Dr. Hala Mustafa, a visiting fellow), on democracy promotion in the Arab world.
At this point, Khalidi boiled over:
[KHALIDI]: “By God, I say that the participation of the sons or daughters of the Arabs in the plans and affairs of this institute is a huge error, this Israeli institute in Washington, an institute founded by AIPAC, the Zionist lobby, and that hosts tens of Israelis every year. The presence of an Arab or two each year can’t disguise the nature of this institute as the most important center of Zionist interests in Washington for at least a decade. I very much regret the participation of Arab officials and non-officials and academics in the activities of this institute, because in fact if you look at the output of this institute, it’s directed against the Palestinians, against the Arabs, and against the Muslims in general. Its products describe the Palestinians as terrorists, and in fact its basic function is to spread lies and falsehoods about the Arab world, of course under an academic, scholarly veneer. Basically, this is the most important Zionist propaganda tool in the United States.”
This is the intimidating language of Arab boycott, aimed against an institution with entirely American credentials. The Washington Institute is directed by Ambassador Dennis Ross, who was the chief Middle East peace negotiator in the presidential administrations of George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. He has always been a model of balance (unlike Khalidi, whose forays into politics have always been to advise Yasir Arafat). The Washington Institute is run by Americans, and accepts funds only from American sources. (Contrast with the donors of Khalidi’s chair, whose precise identities Columbia still refuses to reveal.)
And it is outrageous for Khalidi to denounce the Arabs who have come to The Washington Institute as blundering dupes. I was there in the fall, when the Institute brought to Washington a group of Palestinian Fatah activists associated with the Tanzim (an invitation for which Ross took a lot of flak). While in Washington, these Palestinians said things that could hardly be squared with “Zionist propaganda.” Who is Khalidi to tell them they made a “huge error”? For its annual fall conference, the Institute flew in three members of Iraq’s Governing Council, whose country would still be under Saddam’s iron rule if Khalidi had had his way. Who is he to tell them they made a “huge error”? The year before last, my stay coincided with that of Ali Salem, the Egyptian playwright who has faced down Egypt’s entire literary establishment, and who once was detained for his collaboration with democracy activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim. Who in the world is Khalidi to tell him that he made a “huge error”? I doubt these steel-belted Arabs would ever allow themselves to be intimidated by a pampered prof enjoying the full Columbia treatment.
I note that Khalidi has never made a comparable statement in English, probably for this reason: it would damage his reputation as a bridge-building moderate. To maintain that image, he’s even shared podiums with members of The Washington Institute (see his smiling mug, with David Makovsky). But Khalidi in Arabic, on Al-Jazeera, is someone else altogether. There he is the bridge-burner, the zealot who would warn other Arabs away from The Washington Institute because it is “Israeli,” and a “Zionist propaganda tool.” Behold, Arab-style McCarthyism.
Khalidi’s crude outburst won’t stop the caravan, but it does put yet another question mark alongside his name. I have never called him an apologist for terrorism, and I respect some of his historical scholarship. But I once heard him speak to a predominantly Arab audience, and it alarmed me. This latest statement confirms something I’ve suspected ever since: he isn’t all he appears to be. Caveat emptor—buyer beware. (Too late for Columbia, but not for the rest of us.)
And speaking of Columbia, what has Khalidi done to promote what he calls “true dialogue” since his September enthronement in the Edward Said Chair? Two Israelis—academic post-Zionists—spoke at his institute this past semester. He and they would have nodded in agreement over Israel’s alleged misdeeds. I don’t think that’s good enough, and it leaves me wondering (again) why his institute gets what The Washington Institute doesn’t get: a $400,000-a-year Title VI handout from the American taxpayer. It’s a dubious mechanism that puts such a hefty subsidy at the disposal of an Arab boycotter. It really should be fixed.
just sent it off to a girl who is a NY Jew
been trying to change her vote.
she was never into politics until she met married this ultra looney Jewish liberal
I pointed pout many of obama’s connections to radicals etc and she still will not changer her mind
all she is saying the usual bumper sticker slogans
Now she has a masters degree and so this just proves she is totally dumb if she can’t do her own research and counts on her looney left husband for advice
we are screwed of obama gets in with these idiots
she actually believes obama is a better friend for Israel than McCain is
I despair I really do
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