Comments on: Obama and Khalidi http://campaign-promises.com/2008/10/obama-and-khalidi/ Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:44:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: JBTaylor http://campaign-promises.com/2008/10/obama-and-khalidi/comment-page-1/#comment-20 JBTaylor Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:37:21 +0000 http://campaign-promises.com/?p=464#comment-20 I forgot about one other curious associate of Mr. Obama’s which makes 7; Raila Odinga of Kenya. Obama campaigned for Odinga and has even shared campaign slogans with him. Another poor judgment. If you don’t know who Raila Odinga is or what he and his Orange Democratic Movement is about, just Google his name along with Obama’s and see what comes up. There is an interesting video on YouTube about their acquaintance, as well. I forgot about one other curious associate of Mr. Obama’s which makes 7; Raila Odinga of Kenya. Obama campaigned for Odinga and has even shared campaign slogans with him. Another poor judgment. If you don’t know who Raila Odinga is or what he and his Orange Democratic Movement is about, just Google his name along with Obama’s and see what comes up. There is an interesting video on YouTube about their acquaintance, as well.

]]> By: JBTaylor http://campaign-promises.com/2008/10/obama-and-khalidi/comment-page-1/#comment-13 JBTaylor Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:58:49 +0000 http://campaign-promises.com/?p=464#comment-13 Sorry for the typo, the first line in my comment above should have read "It is amazing to me how the press seems to overlook <i>these</i> types of associations." Also, I forgot one other "friend" of Obama: Tony Rezko, a convicted felon who has ties to corruption in politics in Chicago. Just another in the "flock" that we shouldn't use as a measuring stick against Obama's judgment, at least according to the Obama campaign and the main stream media. Sorry for the typo, the first line in my comment above should have read “It is amazing to me how the press seems to overlook these types of associations.”

Also, I forgot one other “friend” of Obama: Tony Rezko, a convicted felon who has ties to corruption in politics in Chicago.

Just another in the “flock” that we shouldn’t use as a measuring stick against Obama’s judgment, at least according to the Obama campaign and the main stream media.

]]> By: JBTaylor http://campaign-promises.com/2008/10/obama-and-khalidi/comment-page-1/#comment-12 JBTaylor Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:46:10 +0000 http://campaign-promises.com/?p=464#comment-12 It is amazing to me how the press seems to overlook this types of associations. If you "Google" the term Obama Khalidi, you will find that this story was in the blogosphere as far back as February, of course this is when Hillary's campaign was trying to discredit Obama and win the primaries. Another thing you will find are two "paid" advertisements for sites that were set up simply as a PR machine to counter accusations such as this. I clicked one of those "ads" and on the site they had a quote that I found interesting... 'Barack has nothing to hide: he has openly described his relationship with Rashid Khalidi: ‚Äú[Khalidi] is not one of my advisors; he‚Äôs not one of my foreign policy people. His kids went to the Lab school where my kids go as well. He is a respected scholar, although he vehemently disagrees with a lot of Israel‚Äôs policy‚ĶTo pluck out one person who I know and who I‚Äôve had a conversation with who has very different views than 900 of my friends and then to suggest that somehow that shows that maybe I‚Äôm not sufficiently pro-Israel, I think, is a very problematic stand to take‚ĶSo we gotta be careful about guilt by association.‚Äù ' Now, I could understand if there was only ONE person, as Obama says in the quote, who he has associated with that had a questionable past or relationships, but this seems to be a common theme with Barack's associates. Let's tally them up, shall we? 1. William Ayers 2. Rev. Wright 3. Louis Farrakhan 4 . Rashid Khalidi 5. Father Flagel 6. ??? Who's next? Like my wise mother always said, "Birds of a feather, flock together!" But I guess this only applies to Republicans and shady acquaintances in junior high school. It is amazing to me how the press seems to overlook this types of associations. If you “Google” the term Obama Khalidi, you will find that this story was in the blogosphere as far back as February, of course this is when Hillary’s campaign was trying to discredit Obama and win the primaries.

Another thing you will find are two “paid” advertisements for sites that were set up simply as a PR machine to counter accusations such as this. I clicked one of those “ads” and on the site they had a quote that I found interesting…

‘Barack has nothing to hide: he has openly described his relationship with Rashid Khalidi:

‚Äú[Khalidi] is not one of my advisors; he‚Äôs not one of my foreign policy people. His kids went to the Lab school where my kids go as well. He is a respected scholar, although he vehemently disagrees with a lot of Israel‚Äôs policy‚ĶTo pluck out one person who I know and who I‚Äôve had a conversation with who has very different views than 900 of my friends and then to suggest that somehow that shows that maybe I‚Äôm not sufficiently pro-Israel, I think, is a very problematic stand to take‚ĶSo we gotta be careful about guilt by association.‚Äù ‘

Now, I could understand if there was only ONE person, as Obama says in the quote, who he has associated with that had a questionable past or relationships, but this seems to be a common theme with Barack’s associates. Let’s tally them up, shall we?

1. William Ayers
2. Rev. Wright
3. Louis Farrakhan
4 . Rashid Khalidi
5. Father Flagel
6. ???

Who’s next?

Like my wise mother always said, “Birds of a feather, flock together!” But I guess this only applies to Republicans and shady acquaintances in junior high school.

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