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BREAKING-Barack Obama sacks adviser over talks with Hamas-(Robert Malley!!)
Times Of London ^ | 5-10-08 | Tom Baldwin

Posted on 05/09/2008 9:14:36 PM PDT by tcrlaf

One of Barack Obama’s Middle East policy advisers disclosed yesterday that he had held meetings with the militant Palestinian group Hamas – prompting the likely Democratic nominee to sever all links with him.

Robert Malley told The Times that he had been in regular contact with Hamas, which controls Gaza and is listed by the US State Department as a terrorist organisation. Such talks, he stressed, were related to his work for a conflict resolution think-tank and had no connection with his position on Mr Obama’s Middle East advisory council.

“I’ve never hidden the fact that in my job with the International Crisis Group I meet all kinds of people,” he added.

Ben LaBolt, a spokesman for Mr Obama, responded swiftly: “Rob Malley has, like hundreds of other experts, provided informal advice to the campaign in the past. He has no formal role in the campaign and he will not play any role in the future.” The rapid departure of Mr Malley followed 48 hours of heated clashes between John McCain, the Republican nominee-elect, and Mr Obama over Middle East policy.

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Randy Scheunemann, Mr McCain’s foreign policy chief, suggested that Mr Malley was part of an emerging pattern in which other advisers had been repudiated after throwing confusion over policies on trade and Iraq. “Perhaps because of his inexperience Senator Obama surrounds himself with advisers that contradict his stated policies,” he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bo; hamas; malley; moron; obama; obamatruthfile; robertmalley; terroristvote
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To: devolve; ntnychik; PhilDragoo; MeekOneGOP; tcrlaf
Obama's 'friends' all need to wear SACKS.


41 posted on 05/09/2008 10:03:17 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: plain talk

now thats the black calling the kettle pot....


42 posted on 05/09/2008 10:03:33 PM PDT by Typical_Whitey (Prepare to do your time as Corvee labor on the Plantation of Barack and Michell Obama.)
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To: potlatch

I’d prefer prison jump suits.


43 posted on 05/09/2008 10:06:26 PM PDT by libsmacker75
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To: celtic gal

I posted the link and it came up oddly so I asked it be removed....I’m, hopeless with this kind of thing...please forgive..


44 posted on 05/09/2008 10:06:36 PM PDT by celtic gal
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To: tcrlaf

If Obama is elected President, God will have allowed him to be in that position. Most likely, for His judgment to begin on our shores - something we do deserve for even allowing clowns such as Hillary, Obama, and McCain to even be in the running.


45 posted on 05/09/2008 10:07:14 PM PDT by Blogger
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To: celtic gal

...and to Jimmy Carter, Bill Richardson, Hildebeast, Ted Kennedy, Jesse Jackson, et al.


46 posted on 05/09/2008 10:07:57 PM PDT by libsmacker75
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To: tcrlaf
Great article at National Review Online by Andrew McCarthy about Obama's long time ties with Hamas sympathizers.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YThjYTU1ZDBjNmQ2YzcwNzU1MmYwN2JiMWY0ZGI0NDA=

Don't let the BS snake oil salesman get away with making the Jewish vote believe he gives a damn for them...after the election he'll cozy up to the Palestinians once again!!!

47 posted on 05/09/2008 10:12:05 PM PDT by HardStarboard (Take No Prisoners - We're Out Of Qurans)
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To: plain talk

Obama sacks a guy for doing what he (Obama) has said he would do as President.

Well, he was fired for being caught, which was certainly a reasonable thing for Obama to do.


48 posted on 05/09/2008 10:21:57 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: tcrlaf
Civil War II (The Coming Break-Up Of America

"Chittum starts out by asking the reader to figure out which "tier" you belong to in the new order. If you are a member of the white working class you will immediatly understand what Chittum means. The "International Bureaucratic Elite" are the ones destroying America and creating an empire for their own purposes,power and greed. To do this the white working class must be degraded to third class citizens. This will be done through "racist affimative action",politcal correctness, and outright tyranny. Since whites are the economic and racial backbone of America, they must go."

49 posted on 05/09/2008 10:22:07 PM PDT by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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To: tcrlaf

One muslim sacking another just so the wolf can continue on.


50 posted on 05/09/2008 10:28:15 PM PDT by taxesareforever (We'll never forget Matt Maupin and his service to our country.)
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To: libsmacker75
It is obvious that Hussein's Hive of Islamists, Black Panthers, Nation of Islam, Marxists, Weather Underground, ect, are a clear and present danger.
51 posted on 05/09/2008 10:29:43 PM PDT by roses of sharon ( (Who will be McCain's maverick?))
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To: MaxMax
Voters don't know jack about the Democrat Party, and I don't think we can wait another generation.

Heck, we wouldn't even know without the Internet.

We need a drastic plan, and we will need funding, to go up against Soros and all major media.

52 posted on 05/09/2008 10:33:17 PM PDT by roses of sharon ( (Who will be McCain's maverick?))
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To: festus

Just the fact that he’s about to be given the nomination should be considered a stern warning.


53 posted on 05/09/2008 10:34:15 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
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To: roses of sharon
I can appreciate the funding dilemma, but conservatives will not put their money
into an empty pot like McCain. The RNC is dry, accept for independent funding.

The punch line is that McCain will win without money.

I will not fund McCain. I funded the Daschle expulsion, and that was
where I stopped after 2004. The RNC has gone renegade, I don't get it.

God Bless,
MaxMax.

54 posted on 05/09/2008 10:49:15 PM PDT by MaxMax (I'll welcome death when God calls me. Until then, the fight is on)
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To: tcrlaf

Not God, but Colt, H&K, you get the idea.


55 posted on 05/09/2008 11:03:41 PM PDT by wastedyears (The US Military is what goes Bump in the night.)
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To: tcrlaf

Could we get so lucky as to have this fool as the Democrat candidate?


56 posted on 05/09/2008 11:08:25 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham ("The land of the Free...Because of the Brave")
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To: MaxMax

Who said anything about funding McCain or the RNC?

Not me. Never mentioned his name, never even thought of him.

We do not need Washington, we can do it ourselves.


57 posted on 05/09/2008 11:10:35 PM PDT by roses of sharon ( (Who will be McCain's maverick?))
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To: tcrlaf

Yet he says McCain was losing his marbles for saying Hamas favored Obama.


58 posted on 05/09/2008 11:16:09 PM PDT by elhombrelibre (If you share Wright's pews, you share his views.)
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To: tcrlaf
"Ben LaBolt, a spokesman for Mr Obama, responded swiftly: “Rob Malley has, like hundreds of other experts, provided informal advice to the campaign in the past. He has no formal role in the campaign and he will not play any role in the future.”"

Why would the spokehole mention "he will not play any role in the future" if Malley has no "formal role" in the campaign?
Where have I heard this kind of parsing before? Hmmm...

59 posted on 05/09/2008 11:27:33 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (In perpetuum sacramentum (An Oath is Forever))
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

I hope you’re right. Let me know if I can help in any way.


60 posted on 05/09/2008 11:30:31 PM PDT by Technical Editor
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