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?

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Rashid Khalidi More About Rashid Khalidi -director in Beirut of the official Palestinian press agency, FAFA -received a $70,000 grant to the Arab American Action Network, from the Woods Fund -held a fundraising event in his home for Barack Obama -Khalidi has direct ties to the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) -Khalidi, Ayers & Obama taught at the University of Chicago

Once again we hear the name Bill Ayers. Coincidence? Doubt it.

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Obama Connection to Terrorists Revealed by Talk Show Host By Jim Kouri, 3/24/2008 9:02:29 AM There is a far-reaching scandal brewing for presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, thanks to a radio talk show host based in Oregon. Syndicated talk host Laurie Roth's revelations make the news story about Obama's relationship with a racist, anti-American pastor look like child's play. A top official at the Pentagon during former-President George H. W. Bush's Administration and a former CIA intelligence officer maintain that Barack Obama and former Weather Underground honcho William Ayers funneled money to Professor Rashid Khalidi, a known terrorist sympathizer. Khalidi serves on the faculty of Columbia University in New York and is best known as the professor who invited Iranian President Ahmedinejad to visit Columbia University after he finished his speech at the United Nations. According to confidential sources, Khalidi has direct ties to the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), a group on the US State Department's list of known terrorist groups. Hawaii Reporter: Hawaii Reporter

An excerpt from an article that further explains the Khalidi/Obama association.

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Another author has two books for sale through the AMEU who might strike a bell in people who have been covering Senator Obama's campaign: Rashid Khalidi. Khalidi is a historian and professor of the Middle East who came to know Barack Obama well when Khalidi taught at the University of Chicago. Obama and Khalidi were friends and dinner companions. (Allies of Palestinians see a friend in Barack Obama). Khalidi is also a well-known and very visible Palestinian activist who once worked for the Palestinian Liberation Organization. He now teaches at Columbia University. His pro-Palestinian advocacy continues since he left Chicago. At times, Khalidi's activities have been the subject of controversy. For example, he had been a participant in the New York City teacher training program, but in 1995 his participation was ended by the city's School Chancellor who issued this statement: "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." When Barack Obama served on the nonprofit Woods Foundation board, the foundation gave a large grant to a social services group whose board was headed by Mona Khaldi, Rashid Khalidi's wife. American Thinker

What's the association here, if any?

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Well sense the Dem's won't do a thing about off shore drilling (they could enact laws so the people gain some benefits in the end products) for oil or in
Alaska just to keep the prices inflated. About the only thing worth hearing from Bush, that made any sense!
I take back my vote for all of both political parties. Hell why vote just to get jury duty. These people we elect are in another world and we aren't allowed in it.
So I am done with the political system in this country. Change my ash!

mlurp, it is disappointing but we cannot give up hope. Yes, politicians have their own special club, but as soon as America wakes up then maybe we can collectivly find a way to go back to the constitutional republic that the United States was based on.

We will eventually rid ourselves of the parasites that pollute our system.

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Politicians are people elected from the populace...

If you think they suck, then remember the pool they came from...

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Oh yes I can and then regain it again. Thats all there is .

Did you know that when Barack Obama served on the nonprofit Woods Foundation board, the foundation gave a large grant to a social services group whose board was headed by Mona Khaldi, Rashid Khalidi's wife.

Did you know that Khalidi has direct ties to the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and is a terrorist sympathizer?

Did you know that I am not making this up?

The PLO was actually an umbrella organization for various other factions:

1. Fatah, the largest, was founded in 1956 by a group of young Gazans. It was, and STILL IS, the military arm of the P.L.O. Among the young terrorists was Yasser Arafat. By 1968 Arafat was al Fatah's leader. Among the offshoots of Fatah was the infamous Black September which massacred the Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Rent the video, One Day in September, for stunning news footage of this horrendous brutality.

2. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) was the second largest of the commando groups. It was founded in 1967 by George Habash. The P.F.L.P. carried out some spectacular skyjackings in the 1970. But 30+ years does not diminish their thirst for Jewish blood. In October or 2001, several of their operatives murdered the Israeli Government Minister Rechavam "Ghandi" Ze´evi.

3. The Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine split from the P.F.L.P. which it accused of not being militant enough. This group carried out the terrorist raid on Ma'alot in May of 1974 in which 21 young Israeli school children were murdered.

4. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command was another splinter group of the P.F.L.P. They were responsible for the 1974 incursion into Northern Israel in which 16 residents of Kiryat Shemona were murdered.

5. Al Saiqa was formed by Syria in 1967 and was tightly controlled by Syrian intelligence. Most of its terror participants were Arab-Palestinian refugees who fled to Syria during the 1948 and 1967 Arab-Israel wars.

6. The Arab Liberation Front, a minor player in the terrorism against Israel.

These were the original PLO terrorist splinter groups. The role they play today is rather insignificant compared to the new terrorists on the block... Islamic Jihad, al Aqsa Brigade, Hizb'Allah, Hamas, Tanzim and countless other ARAB terror squads that seem to spring up every week! But one face has remained a constant over the last 40+ years and that is the ugly face of Yasser Arafat... Godfather of Arab-Palestinian Terrorism. He may have renamed his PLO the PA (Palestinian Authority) and he may have been given a Nobel Peace Prize (the first one ever given to a certified mass murderer!) but beneath his facial stubble is the same old butcher of Jews. It must also be pointed out that most of the early Arab-Palestinian terrorist groups were formed BEFORE the 1967 Arab-Israel War... a defensive war against the combined armies of Egypt, Syria and Jordan resulting in the so-called Israeli "occupation" of the "West Bank" (from Jordan), Gaza Strip (from Egypt) and the Golan Heights (from Syria). So unless it makes sense that the PLO and its various splinter terror groups were originally formed to get back territories the Arabs already controlled, then obviously, the "occupied land" was then, as it remains today... Israel itself!
Arafat and the PLO, Terrorism Incorporated

What do you think about this association??

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Unsurprising...

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We can always blame it on PBSD

Bothers me! Mostly because the young voters he has drawn won't change over for nothing as he is their HERO. It going to be a land side. I wonder how he will deal with separation of church (faith) and government?

It seems that for him there may not be much seperation. A picture is worth a thousand words.

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