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McCain's IRI Group Funded Khalidi's Organization in 1993?
Politico | 10/29/2008 | Various

Posted on 10/29/2008 3:01:10 PM PDT by txzman

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To: torchthemummy

thanks


61 posted on 10/29/2008 3:33:38 PM PDT by SolidWood
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To: Blogger

Why? Did he believe Palestinians could be trusted? The same people passing out candy to children on 9/11?


62 posted on 10/29/2008 3:34:16 PM PDT by nobama08
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To: JoseScales
its simple really. stop wasting time. im not the problem.

we got work to do. and we have 6 days left to win. ok!!!

Sorry...not buying it. All your posts in this topic are written in a way to discourage the McCain campaign from pursuing the Khalidi tape.

63 posted on 10/29/2008 3:35:36 PM PDT by Azzurri
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To: nobama08

Not saying that the palis weren’t troublemaking loons back then also, but 1993 is uhm... 8 years before 9/11.


64 posted on 10/29/2008 3:35:51 PM PDT by SolidWood
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To: txzman
The CIPE (The Center for International Private Enterprise) also supports this group, and CIPE is a conservative organization that promotes democracy and free-market reforms.

The COO of the Heritage Foundation sits on the Board.

http://www.cipe.org/about/board/index.php

65 posted on 10/29/2008 3:40:39 PM PDT by mojito
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To: Azzurri

sorry that i cant convince you further.

after my initial visit (and dust up with some oldies here) yesterday i decided that:

i’m not here to make you like me. i’m here to contribute for a larger cause.

its such behaviours like yours that have produced too many RINO’s in the conservative movement.

people (and bloggers) going around looking for people to bow and clap for them.

sorry. i’m here for the real conseervative cause which at this moment is being led by McCain and Palin.

NOT YOU SIR!


66 posted on 10/29/2008 3:41:55 PM PDT by JoseScales
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To: txzman; dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; ...
If you'd like to be on this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

High Volume. Articles on Israel can also be found by clicking on the Topic or Keyword Israel. or WOT [War on Terror]

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The Obama campaign and their supporters can't tell the truth, much less the whole truth.

The International Republican Institute isn't a "McCain organization". Under Reagan, Congress authorized the National Endowment for Democracy , which essentially dispurses funds, more accurately our tax dollars, through four sub groups, one Republican, one Dem, one Labor, and one private enterprise. And yes, as a Republican legislator McCain has been involved with the IRI, and whether McCain made it or not, I might support the decision to "fund" Khalid's group. They were hired to do polling in the West Bank. The fact that the Obama campaign doesn't understand that, when polling in a nest of terrorists, you either deal with terrorist supporters or don't do the polling. Same goes for distributing aid. Lots of bad guys cash our checks. That's the real world, if you want Goldilocks (bet I spelled that wrong) you need Obamaland. In his double super secret plan to take out bin Ladin, who does the Senator think he'll be dealing with, Nancy Pelosi?

Toasting the spokesman for a terrorist and wishing him well, perhaps validating his opinion that Israel shouldn't exist, is quite another thing.

67 posted on 10/29/2008 3:44:34 PM PDT by SJackson (I don't believe that people should be able to own guns, BH Obama to John Lott)
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To: BallyBill
Losers on the attack.

Governor Palin will be in Cape Girardeau, Missouri Thursday morning. 11,000 tickets handed out.

68 posted on 10/29/2008 3:45:32 PM PDT by BARLF
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To: bushwon
they must be pretty worried

Yes sir, the B-O campaign is worried big time because their internals are showing they are behind and falling fast and the eventual release of this tape won't help. All they can do is try to find a way to soften the blow ... to draw a comparison with McCain so they don't lose votes they are already counting on.

69 posted on 10/29/2008 3:47:56 PM PDT by glennaro
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To: justlurking
I don’t think the controversy is so much about him associating with Khalidi. It’s about what was said at the banquet, by who, and how Obama reacted.

Were it a single event, Hillary kissing Suha, I'd agree. But he's acknowledged being close to Khalidi and his wife, Michelle attended their daughters wedding a couple months ago, so it's a relationship, not a simple introduction at a community/school event. And Ayers was there.

But if it was a simple, polite introduction, that could be proved in a heartbeat by releasing the tape

70 posted on 10/29/2008 3:52:04 PM PDT by SJackson (I don't believe that people should be able to own guns, BH Obama to John Lott)
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To: Moorka
This outfit is a private entity that doled out money to various groups.

In a sense, they dole out tax dollars too, through through the National Endowment for Democracy , established by Congress. The IRI is one of four conduits, the dems have one too. See post 67

71 posted on 10/29/2008 3:54:17 PM PDT by SJackson (I don't believe that people should be able to own guns, BH Obama to John Lott)
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To: Blogger
Sounds like the organization is a polling agency.

Yes, and when you poll in areas like the West Bank and Gaza, you can't use Gallup.

72 posted on 10/29/2008 3:55:57 PM PDT by SJackson (I don't believe that people should be able to own guns, BH Obama to John Lott)
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To: nobama08
"I have read this, too. What was McCain thinking?"

It's simply another attempt by Obama's team to divert attention from the facts. When McCain brought up the committees Obama & Ayers sat on, they countermanded with the fact that Walter Annenberg was a Reagan Republican.

73 posted on 10/29/2008 3:55:59 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: JoseScales

You are a typical leftist agitator. Why are you here DUmmie?


74 posted on 10/29/2008 3:57:29 PM PDT by petercooper (I am a bitter clinger!)
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To: txzman
Good find.

It's hilarious that in this thread, giving half a million dollars to Khalidi is no big deal. In other threads being in the same room with him is a huge (HUGH!) deal because Khalidi is a terrorist.

The fact is that this is a non-issue for McCain because it was a non-issue for Obama. If this kind of tenuous stuff is all we have left to defeat Obama... well... I'll just say: things are not going all that well.

75 posted on 10/29/2008 3:58:26 PM PDT by Mr. Know It All (Quicumque vult salvus esse, ante omnia opus est, ut teneat catholicam fidem)
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To: SolidWood
Not saying that the palis weren’t troublemaking loons back then also, but 1993 is uhm... 8 years before 9/11.

In 1993 we were fooling ourselves about the Madrid process, as it morphed into Oslo. However actual control by Arafat was still 2 years off. It was reasonable to attempt to establish democracy at the time. Who knows, if Bush I/Baker hadn't resurrected Arafat, and Clinton and Israel hadn't overlooked his noncompliance with agreements, things might have worked out differently.

76 posted on 10/29/2008 4:00:35 PM PDT by SJackson (I don't believe that people should be able to own guns, BH Obama to John Lott)
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To: Mr. Know It All
The fact is that this is a non-issue for McCain because it was a non-issue for Obama. If this kind of tenuous stuff is all we have left to defeat Obama... well... I'll just say: things are not going all that well.

Nice try at deflection, but the electoral issue with Obama isn't that he showed up to praise his friend, though that's a bit of an issue to me and others, rather whether in toasting his friend he accused Israel of committing genocide, and indicated that Israel had no right to exist on palestinian land.

That's a serious foreign policy statement, and exposes that aspect of his campaign as a fraud.

77 posted on 10/29/2008 4:05:11 PM PDT by SJackson (I don't believe that people should be able to own guns, BH Obama to John Lott)
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To: Azzurri

You can always tell when we’ve hit the target. Liberals are in such a panic today.


78 posted on 10/29/2008 4:07:27 PM PDT by 1035rep
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To: txzman
Got to love these noob-driven "concern troll" threads.

This is just a weak smoke-screen from camp Obama to deflect what's coming.
79 posted on 10/29/2008 4:07:55 PM PDT by Antoninus (It's cruch time! Ignore the polls and work to defeat Obama!)
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To: redk

The original LAT article was written all the way back in April. Why bring it up again now?

My blue balls are hurting.


80 posted on 10/29/2008 4:10:20 PM PDT by GoSarah
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