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.
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Is that a real photo...not photo-shopped? Do you have a link to the original for me? Thanks.
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.
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.
Snopes says it true.
“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!
Odinga could sleep in the Lincoln bedroom!
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.
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.
Ive seen that one too. Brainwashing them and it begins in youth for sure.
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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.
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.
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