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Feel free to post any questions or information regarding Obama's known associations in this thread.

I checked out Obama's new website ( Fight the Smears | Fight the Smears Home ) to cross reference this Obama article I was researching. I could not find this guy on Obama's website, so I thought I'd get some feedback from other members

It's an older article (almost 3 months old) and I found it a curious read. If the association is as it it explained in the article, then would that be a potential issue for those that are still unsure on who to vote for.

I would like to know what is the association between Rashid Khalidi and Barack Obama is all about. Is Khalidi someone that Obama would use as a reference if he were to apply for a high level security clearance (hypothetical)? What are we to make of this association?
Once again we hear the name Bill Ayers. Coincidence? Doubt it.
An excerpt from an article that further explains the Khalidi/Obama association.What's the association here, if any?
Looks like we'll have a better relationship and understanding of the Palestinian people if Barak becomes President. Maybe peace will break out after all!
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Khalidi was born in New York to a Palestinian father and a Lebanese mother.

He received a B.A. from Yale University, where he was a member of Wolf's Head Society, in 1970, and a D. Phil. from Oxford University in 1974 and spent many years as a professor and director of both the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Center for International Studies at the University of Chicago before joining the Columbia faculty. He has also taught at Georgetown University, Lebanese University, and the American University of Beirut.
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Khalidi’s research covers primarily the history of the modern Middle East.
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Khalidi has written dozens of scholarly articles on Middle East history and politics, as well as op-ed pieces in many U.S. newspapers. He has also been a guest on numerous radio and TV shows including All Things Considered, Talk of the Nation, Morning Edition, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Charlie Rose, and Nightline, and has appeared on the BBC, the CBC, France Inter and the Voice of America. Khalidi had an advising role at the Madrid Conference of 1991 between the U.S., Israel, Palestinians and Arab states. He served as president of the American Committee on Jerusalem, now known as the American Task Force on Palestine.

Khalidi's statements on the status of Palestinians in Israel and the Israeli-occupied territories have been the most controversial. In an interview on PBS, Khalidi used the term "occupied" in reference to Mandatory Palestine in 1948, saying "about half of it was occupied by Israel (which under UNGA 181 was supposed to obtain roughly 55% of Mandate Palestine, and which by the time of the armistice had taken control of about 78%, including half of what was to have been the Arab state)... the remainder was, as you say, under Egyptian and Jordanian control from 1948-1967."
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Khalidi explained that he often spoke to journalists in Beirut, and was usually cited, without attribution, as a well-informed Palestinian source. He also said that he was unaware of any misidentification as a PLO spokesman.
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The claim received renewed attention in 2008 when it was raised due to a reported friendship between Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and Khalidi's family when Khalidi taught at the University of Chicago. Articles by Aaron Klein and John Bachelor, writers respectively for conservative outlets World Net Daily and Human Events, were referenced by rival political campaigns and reprinted in wider-circulation media.
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In 2005 Khalidi's participation in a New York City teacher training program was ended by the city's Schools Chancellor. The Chancellor, Joel I. Klein, issued a statement that “Considering his past statements, Rashid Khalidi should not have been included in a program that provided professional development for [Department of Education] teachers and he won't be participating in the future.” Following the decision, Columbia University president Lee Bollinger spoke out on Khalidi's behalf, writing: "The department's decision to dismiss Professor Khalidi from the program was wrong and violates First Amendment principles... The decision was based solely on his purported political views and was made without any consultation and apparently without any review of the facts."
Let's see now, going by the article quoted at the beginning of this thread, looks like old Charlie Rose and the McNeil Lerah Hour are indictable for fraternizing with the enemy!

And I guess the president of Columbia University is doing a cover up for them!
The story here is something like propaganda. No. Wait....It is propaganda.
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Looks like we'll have a better relationship and understanding of the Palestinian people if Barak becomes President. Maybe peace will break out after all!

We can hope.. But remember with any peace we Christians need worry if it is signed for 7 years and the Jews get their temple back. Something like this announcement. "we have security and peace upon our boarders"
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Show me a person's friends and associates and I will show you his destiny.

If you answer me that Jesus went to the "evil" people I will be forced to remind you that he was there to CONVERT them not join them.

Obummer does have a messianic type of following doesn't he?
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Show me a person's friends and associates and I will show you his destiny.

If you answer me that Jesus went to the "evil" people I will be forced to remind you that he was there to CONVERT them not join them.

Obummer does have a messianic type of following doesn't he?
Weren't some of Uncle Ronnie's friends Pinko Commies? And weren't some of his other friends McCarthy's drones?
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Weren't some of Uncle Ronnie's friends Pinko Commies? And weren't some of his other friends McCarthy's drones?
Are you asking if Ronnie spent time in Hollywood?
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Are you asking if Ronnie spent time in Hollywood?
No. I'm asking if the same standards apply to him as a candidate/President as to the Big O?
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No. I'm asking if the same standards apply to him as a candidate/President as to the Big O?
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The "type" of association is pertinent.
Examples are like Obama saying that Rev Wright is/was his "spiritual leader , personal friend and mentor(he titled one of his books from a phrase used by rev wright.
Or perhaps a real estate deal being brokered for Obama by a man convicted of crooked real estate deals(Resco)
Or perhaps friendship and business sharing with an admitted terrorist.
It is the "depth" of his associations that becomes troubling.
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The "type" of association is pertinent.
Examples are like Obama saying that Rev Wright is/was his "spiritual leader , personal friend and mentor(he titled one of his books from a phrase used by rev wright.
Or perhaps a real estate deal being brokered for Obama by a man convicted of crooked real estate deals(Resco)
Or perhaps friendship and business sharing with an admitted terrorist.
It is the "depth" of his associations that becomes troubling.
I don't recall Regan or Nixon or Ford, for that matter, disassociating themselves from their work with Sen. McCarthy.
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Reagan sold out his friends in Hollywood. As a union leader he had a vested interest in the blacklisting and HUAC smears, and did all he could to use it against his enemies in the union, especially the writers guild. He had to remove them in order to sell them out and end a strike at the time; he was close to a company that was a front for Meyer Lansky and his partners. There is a very questionable real estate deal around this time involving buying an acre of land for $2,000 and turning it over for a couple of million dollars, and suddenly Reagan is waving flags and denouncing 'Reds in Hollywood' like there was no tomorrow.

As for Nixon, one of his fellow Red baiters was Bobby Kennedy. And, as for terrorist connections and money trails, Hillary was a long time fund raiser and supporter for a 'Peace' group that supported PLO gangsters ever since her college days, I forget the name of it now, something like the 'World Peace Foundation or whatever, you can google it if you want, plus there is the gushy meeting with Arafat's wife, where she played huggy kissy with the vermin, and the $100,000 donation to her campaigns from the American Muslim Council, in which her campaign changed the name to 'American Museum Council', and when caught at this claimed it was a 'typo', never mind that is a ridiculous claim, as anyone with a keyboard can easily discern.

There is also the long time support right wingers in the oil business have given Saudis and every other nation that actively funds terrorist actions around the globe, and the coziness of Brown and Root, Haliburton, and long time Bush family business connections with Dresser Industries and other antisemetic Texas billionaires.

Both 'sides', i.e Dems and Republicans, are dirty here, up to their necks. I won't even go into the virulent antisemitism of the faux 'Peace Left'; the 'group think' idiocy involved there is just too silly to bother with. The rabid support Obama gets from young, white, and supposedly 'educated' liberal demographics has an easy explanation:

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Mean IQ of college grads dropped 9 points from the 60s to the 90s: The General Social Survey has collected data on a simple measure of IQ since 1974. I calculated means for whites across various degrees and decades. (Black college grads appear to have IQs three or four points lower than whites, but sample sizes are very small, so I didn't include them). Most of the action is observed with a 4-year degree, so I'll focus on it:


Mean IQ--white college grads

1960s 113.72
1970s 110.59
1980s 108.04
1990s 104.42
2000s 105.12

The trend is clear with a slight reversal in this decade. I looked at people who graduated during the 1950s and before, but I didn't list the scores since they are similar to the 60s cohort.

America is obsessed with educating everyone, regardless of ability, so admission standards have been lowered. A bachelors degree has not held its value over the years.

Fortunately, the mean score for those with advanced degrees has not fallen, but the mindless compulsion to educate more and more people will likely fix that. In my experience, the only thing keeping IQs up is that colleges cannot convince people below a certain IQ threshold to stay in school.
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