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Terrorist Supporter Hosted Obama Hollywood Fundraiser
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 | Kristinn

Posted on 04/15/2008 11:00:16 PM PDT by kristinn

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama's first Hollywood fundraiser was co-hosted by a supporter of the terrorists in Iraq. The Hollywood bibleVariety reported that Code Pink's Jodie Evans co-hosted the Obama event with her ex-husband Max Palevsky and Dreamworks partners Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen in February 2007.

In 2005 while attending the World Trbunal on Iraq in Istanbul, Evans gushed approvingly of the terrorists in Iraq in a statement originally published on the Code Pink website:

"We must begin by really standing with the Iraqi people and defending their right to resist. I can remain myself against all forms of violence, and yet I cannot judge what someone has to do when pushed to the wall to protect all they love. The Iraqi people are fighting for their country, to protect their families and to preserve all they love. They are fighting for their lives, and we are fighting for lies." (AlterNet, June 26, 2005)

Code Pink endorsed the findings of the World Tribunal on Iraq that expressed unqualified support for the terrorists in Iraq.

When Evans co-hosted the Obama fundraiser, she had just returned from Cuba as a guest of the Castro government where she and her Code Pink partner Medea Benjamin protested the U.S. military's terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo. (A year before that, Evans had been a guest of Castro wannabe Hugo Chavez in Venezuala.)

In December 2004, Evans helped Code Pink deliver $650,000 in cash and humanitarian aid to families of the terrorists in Fallujah. At the time, the U.S. military was waging a major campaign to retake the city from Al Qaeda in Iraq. The recent film about the insurgency in Iraq, Meeting Resistance, showed that family members of the insurgency are intimately involved in aiding terrorist activities.

Recent news articles have reported on Evans' bundling more than $50,000 in contributions to Sen. Obama's presidential campaign, as well as her $2300 personal contribution to that campaign. The revelation that she was selected by Obama to co-host his first fundraiser in Hollywood takes their political relationship to a new, more personal level.

Evans' radical anti-American politics are no secret. The news of her trip to Castro's Cuba just weeks before the fundraiser was widely reported. The knowledge of her support for the terrorists in Iraq was easily obtainable by doing a quick Internet search. That Barack Obama not only accepted Jodie Evans' money, but also gave her the honor of co-hosting his first Hollywood fundraiser, should raise great concerns that he shares her radical pro-terrorist politics.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2008; ca2008; codepink; fundraiser; hollywood; jodieevans; obama; sympathizer
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1 posted on 04/15/2008 11:00:16 PM PDT by kristinn
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To: BufordP; Just A Nobody; Doctor Raoul; tgslTakoma

It just gets worse....


2 posted on 04/15/2008 11:02:58 PM PDT by kristinn
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To: kristinn

Obama is a quisling


3 posted on 04/15/2008 11:04:21 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: kristinn

The bad and ugly; needs to rise to the top. The worst of Obama is yet to come. We can hope; that there is no doubt that it will become public and mainstream.


4 posted on 04/15/2008 11:06:43 PM PDT by cricket (Damn Political Correctness; before it irretrievably, damns us all. . .)
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To: kristinn

bump for morning


5 posted on 04/15/2008 11:07:40 PM PDT by tcrlaf (VOTE DEMOCRAT-You'll look great in a Burka!)
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To: kristinn

Readily available information about a fundraiser held in 2007 qualifies as Breaking News?


6 posted on 04/15/2008 11:10:41 PM PDT by Bob J ("For every 1000 hacking at the branches of evil, one is striking at it's root.")
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To: kristinn

Obama is scum.
You have countered the Code Pinkos in the DC area
and I have in San Diego.
They are right out of the Marxist play book
and some folks better get a clue but quick
including those on FR pushing for third party wing nuts
which will put this Code Pinko loving Marxist in the White House


7 posted on 04/15/2008 11:12:38 PM PDT by SoCalPol (Don't Blame Me - I Supported Duncan Hunter)
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To: kristinn
Thanks!

Bumping for morning clarity.

8 posted on 04/15/2008 11:19:33 PM PDT by Just A Nobody (PISSANT for President '08 - NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA)
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To: kristinn

What is it with prominant Jews and Obama?

are these the Judenrats of today?

i cannot believe any Jew could support this guy with his love affair with well known Jew haters?


9 posted on 04/15/2008 11:19:52 PM PDT by wardaddy (I just bought my daughter a Mini-Cooper, man....that thing is a blast......I need one.)
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To: kristinn

Islamic terrorist supporters for Obama. Hmm, and to think anyone who dares question whether Obama is a Muslim is, of course, bigoted and ignorant.


10 posted on 04/15/2008 11:20:24 PM PDT by TheThinker (Capitalism is the natural result of a democratic government.)
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To: wardaddy
"i cannot believe any Jew could support this guy with his love affair with well known Jew haters?"

You do know there are communist Jews right? ($oro$ comes to mind)... which in itself seems like an oxymoron since communists need to eradicate religion along with all other possible competing organizations.

Word has it from the Orthodox Jews that a large block of these people have occupied Israel for some time now, and in fact have pretty much taken over.

11 posted on 04/15/2008 11:42:08 PM PDT by Earthdweller (All reality is based on faith in something.)
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To: Earthdweller
'Death from within'. And another reminder as to why, we must fight these people in every way; on their Leftist turf and ours.

We have well passed the 'bliss of ignorance'. . .

12 posted on 04/16/2008 12:37:28 AM PDT by cricket (Damn Political Correctness; before it irretrievably, damns us all. . .)
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To: kristinn

To the Media this is just another activist group, this will not cloud his premises.

But, however, what about Odinga, Bill Ayers, The Reverend Wright, Larry Sinclair(who has been proven to be a liar by a polygraph test, I think, there always seems to be one of these nuts come the candidacy of somebody popular), whoever went around with Obama in his early cocaine-fueled community organizer days along with Rezko and that British Billionaire? Ever notice that Norman Hsu dissapeared from the News as quick as a flash. Wouldn’t want any proven scandal dissipate anybody’s run-in with the Presidency would we?

It is very serious stuff though, Kristinn. While you and others went to Iraq a few times(I recall reading about the trips), there is a Presidential candidate(not nominee) who has been allied with somebody who would like to see you, and all of us dead(funding the enemy is that serious). I still cannot believe that she gave money to terrorists in Fallujah which shows that Code Pink isn’t Anti-War but Pro-Terrorist. And Medea Benjamin was in Castro’s haven for 20 years(as long as Obama was with the Reverend Wright). Like I’ve said, it is almost like Obama supporters are made up of every radical from the 60s. The problem is that fiscal associations with Saddam are easy to find, but those who actually prolong the war for us to lose are very hard to find.

Even Jane Fonda didn’t give funds to the enemy. She sure increased morale though to them.

If Ron Paul can be held accountable for associating with seedy people, why can’t Obama, and Hillary? They should be, afterall this is where the Clintons have held fundraisers and near where Obama’s “bitter” speech was made. Both candidates should be held accountable and if Democrats want to win to put up somebody who cannot be so tainted. Even Al Gore can have new life compared to both of them.


13 posted on 04/16/2008 12:44:56 AM PDT by Merta (They Call Me The Ranting Man)
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To: 1 Olgoat; 103198; 10Ring; 11Bush; 1stbn27; 2ndClassCitizen; 2SterlingConservatives; 2yearlurker; ...

DC Chapter ping


14 posted on 04/16/2008 1:32:58 AM PDT by tgslTakoma
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To: Bob J
Readily available information about a fundraiser held in 2007 qualifies as Breaking News?

Oh, geez, Bob. C'mon, admit that you added it to Breaking News just so you could try and start a fight.

Kristinn is one who is "striking at the root" as your tagline reads, and still you whine.

Don't go away mad, Bob. Just go away.

15 posted on 04/16/2008 1:40:18 AM PDT by tgslTakoma
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To: kristinn

Where is the link to this article?


16 posted on 04/16/2008 2:43:07 AM PDT by mgist
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To: Merta
If Ron Paul can be held accountable for associating with seedy people, why can’t Obama, and Hillary?

Yeah!

;-)

17 posted on 04/16/2008 2:52:51 AM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: tgslTakoma
Bump!

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18 posted on 04/16/2008 3:21:18 AM PDT by W04Man (OUR TROOPS DESERVE A QUALIFIED CIC....... http:Vets4McCain.com.... sign the Roll Call!)
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To: mgist

Here’s an interesting link to a recent Human Events article:

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=25997&page=1


19 posted on 04/16/2008 4:01:44 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists...call 'em what you will...They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: mgist

Here’s another link of interest:

Obama Big Money ‘Bundler’ A Hugo Chavez Supporter, Will Media Report?
By Warner Todd Huston | April 15, 2008 - 01:25 ET
http://newsbusters.org/people/political-figures/barack-obama


20 posted on 04/16/2008 4:09:30 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists...call 'em what you will...They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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This is supposed to be a bad thing for him? I doubt it. Like adultry and prostitution usage, this is a resume enhancer for these lefty librat dolts.


21 posted on 04/16/2008 4:11:44 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Satisfaction was my sin)
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To: kristinn

Rat commie terrorist bastards , oh and BTTT and bookmarked


22 posted on 04/16/2008 4:16:02 AM PDT by Deetes (God Bless the Troops)
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To: mgist
Link to article source.

If you are scratching your head now because I linked back to this thread, it's not a typo. Kristinn wrote the piece and posted it here.

23 posted on 04/16/2008 4:17:52 AM PDT by tgslTakoma
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To: kristinn


Cindy Sheehan, Jodie Evans, Hugo Chavez, Media Benjamin

24 posted on 04/16/2008 4:29:06 AM PDT by Girlene
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To: tgslTakoma
Oh the anger!...(by a few on FR because this is being exposed without MSM anointment)...The pungent animosity is just dripping. I can see the steam coming out of both sides of my monitor.

And people say we ain't got no long term trolls?

25 posted on 04/16/2008 5:05:51 AM PDT by Earthdweller (All reality is based on faith in something.)
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To: kristinn

Information about Obama’s father here: http://gregransom.com/prestopundit/2008/04/gregs-guide-to-barack-obamas-d.html


26 posted on 04/16/2008 5:34:15 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Unapologetically European)
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To: Bob J

It does when it involves the candidate for President of the United States.


27 posted on 04/16/2008 5:36:52 AM PDT by Guenevere (If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all.)
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To: Bob J

So why did you not bring it to everyone’s attention back in 2007? Because the reality is that in 2007 few Americans even knew who Barak Obama was. Absolutely no one knew or figured he would most likely become the Democratic Presidential nominee. So yes it is breaking news and I appluad Kristinn for realizing the importance of an event that took place over a year ago and bringing it to everyone’s attention.


28 posted on 04/16/2008 5:45:56 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: kristinn

Listen up! All you bitter rural, religious, gun-toting folks don't quit dissin' my peeps, ya here?

THE TRUTH ABOUT BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY

29 posted on 04/16/2008 5:54:09 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: kristinn

I can’t tell who likes terrorists more Obama or the Clintons.


30 posted on 04/16/2008 6:05:31 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine's brother (Democrat, a synonym for Traitor)
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To: kristinn
>>>>I can remain myself against all forms of violence, and yet I cannot judge what someone has to do when pushed to the wall to protect all they love.

First, she gets a “D” in English Comp 101.

Secondly, by her standards, it's OK to rob someone here in the States if you are hungry, thirsty for a drink, or your family would like a new HDTV to watch “The Simpsons.”

31 posted on 04/16/2008 6:34:50 AM PDT by MindBender26 (Leftists stop arguing when they see your patriotism, your logic, your CAR-15 and your block of C4.)
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To: kristinn
Terrorist Supporter Hosted Obama Hollywood Fundraiser

Oops, I thought this was a thread about Jimmy Carter.

32 posted on 04/16/2008 6:34:51 AM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
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To: kristinn

Terrorist Fundraisers 4 Obama

Two years ago, Hatem El-Hady was the chairman of the Toledo, Ohio-based Islamic charity, Kindhearts, which was closed by the US government in February 2006 for terrorist fundraising and all its assets frozen. Today, El-Hady has redirected his fundraising efforts for his newest cause - Barack Obama for President.

Read more at: http://ohioagainstterror.blogspot.com/


33 posted on 04/16/2008 6:54:10 AM PDT by flutters (God Bless The USA)
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To: kristinn

bump


34 posted on 04/16/2008 6:54:33 AM PDT by RDTF (my worst nightmare is being on jury duty sequestered with 11 liberals)
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To: Merta
Larry Sinclair(who has been proven to be a liar by a polygraph test, I think, there always seems to be one of these nuts come the candidacy of somebody popular)

Well that's news to me. Do you have a link?

35 posted on 04/16/2008 6:55:30 AM PDT by StarFan
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To: kristinn

Arriana Huffington was on David Geffen’s yacht this past week. All these commie vampires hang together.


36 posted on 04/16/2008 7:01:45 AM PDT by roses of sharon ( (Who will be McCain's maverick?))
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To: kristinn

Obama - the candidate whose background and connections just get “couriouser and couriouser,” while appearing more and more typical of Democrats nowadays. What “change” is this? Is there no one in the whole of the Dim party who is not a liar and fraud and is not/has not resourced money from terrorist and anti-American elements?


37 posted on 04/16/2008 7:05:16 AM PDT by CitizenM ("An excuse is worse than an lie, because an excuse is a lie hidden." Pope John Paul, II)
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To: kristinn

Why isn’t Jodie Evans in Leavenworth for treason?


38 posted on 04/16/2008 7:43:19 AM PDT by Doctor Raoul (Fire the CIA and hire the Free Clinic, someone who knows how to stop leaks.)
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To: Bob J
Don't you have a network to run into the ground or something?

Go with your strengths.

39 posted on 04/16/2008 7:44:11 AM PDT by Doctor Raoul (Fire the CIA and hire the Free Clinic, someone who knows how to stop leaks.)
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To: Robert DeLong

Actually this was put on the record before, what’s Breaking News is that the media is starting to report on it.


40 posted on 04/16/2008 7:46:19 AM PDT by Doctor Raoul (Fire the CIA and hire the Free Clinic, someone who knows how to stop leaks.)
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To: Girlene

"Socialism or death. We will win!" -Hugo Chavez

Hugo finished his speech with that remark. And Cindy Sheehan,
Jodie Evan and MeMeMe Benjamin were there for it.


41 posted on 04/16/2008 7:50:06 AM PDT by Doctor Raoul (Fire the CIA and hire the Free Clinic, someone who knows how to stop leaks.)
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To: Bob J
...qualifies as Breaking News?

I have often questioned what exactly qualifies as "Breaking News" on FR and have been quite disgusted with some of the titles that seem to reach "Breaking News" status.
Here is one prime example:
Jimmy Carter Embraces Hamas Official -- Heck, that's not even news, let alone "Breaking News"

Other favorites from the "Breaking News" sidebar:
Clintons: $109.2 Million in 7 Years
Delegate for Obama quits over remark
Charlton Heston dies
NJ: Paid Family Leave Act Clears State Senate
Zimbabwean activists 'beaten up'
Obama Visits Billionaires Row
Obama advance: 'Get me more white people'
Haitian president fails to restore order
Rogge says Olympics in 'crisis' ("But the IOC has weathered many bigger storms.")
Obama on small-town PA: Clinging religion, guns, xenophobia
NEW - Video from San Francisco - Obama jokes about small town hope
The Real Obama Story Exposed! Part II

Whatever! Difficult to find REAL news these days.

42 posted on 04/16/2008 7:51:42 AM PDT by Just A Nobody (PISSANT for President '08 - NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA)
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To: TheThinker
and to think anyone who dares question whether Obama is a Muslim is, of course, bigoted and ignorant

Only if you allow those labels to be attached to you.
When anyone tries that tact with me, I come right back at them. They are so stunned I dared to defend myself, they walk away quietly.

43 posted on 04/16/2008 7:55:05 AM PDT by Just A Nobody (PISSANT for President '08 - NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA)
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To: Merta
but those who actually prolong the war for us to lose are very hard to find.

Not really. They congregate on a regular basis at: East Capitol Street at First Street NE.

44 posted on 04/16/2008 8:22:44 AM PDT by Just A Nobody (PISSANT for President '08 - NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA)
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To: Doctor Raoul

Thanks for pointing that out....Socialism or Death. Nice.


45 posted on 04/16/2008 8:43:24 AM PDT by Girlene
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To: kristinn

never even knew about this and yet the media still will cover this up as with many other obama disgusting associations and comments


46 posted on 04/16/2008 9:05:50 AM PDT by manc
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To: StarFan

Ah, I believe it might be heresy(even mentioned on here a few times) so you win this duel.

I will concede something. Even if Larry Sinclair lied or is a delusional maniac in the style of Kitty Kelley, he did talk a little bit about Obama’s early days in a way that could be quite connective. He is also the only person that could even be reached on Obama’s past.

If a felon can make Bush be questioned about his hypothetical cocaine use why can’t Larry Sinclair become a question(aside from the Media fawning over Obama)? It can’t sink his candidacy if he did a few flings of cocaine with this guy. If there was somebody murdered named Donald and Obama was a typical thug back in his “Street Community Organizer” days, that might sink his candidacy.

I have heard, however, that we cannot use him because a polygraph test rendered him a liar, I will say that it is very weird that Larry Sinclair(of all people) will have to take a test like that. It also didn’t say what he lied about. Even so, like I said, I don’t think that Obama’s past is very different from what Sinclair has said.

Except for the homosexual fetish. I don’t know if it would sink Obama but it would make him look weird, that the first serious black candidate would have homosexual flings. I think even the black bloc, who usually votes Democrat, would be a little bit reluctant to vote for a guy like that. If there is one thing that they cannot stand, it is somebody who has pillow fetishes.

So, while it might take me some time to dig up links(even posted on here) about Larry Sinclair and how he is an unreliable witness, there is something about the story that won’t go away and that is.....if Obama was a cocaine user who lived on food stamps(as he said) while doing work as a Community Organizer for layed off steel workers, could there be something thuggish and something so seedy they might need a replacement if he gets the nomination? Yes. Could there be a Larry Sinclair in the picture? Also yes.


47 posted on 04/16/2008 11:00:18 AM PDT by Merta (They Call Me The Ranting Man)
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To: StarFan
Home
Larry Sinclair's drug test came back earlier than expected. He was tested for any and all chemical substances including illegal drugs that could cause an inaccurate polygraph test result. There were no traces of any such substances found.

We are awaiting for the second polygraph expert to verify the original results and should have an answer by Monday. Video of the polygraph exam will be posted shortly.

I remember hearing that he failed the test, but it seems there were some issues that stopped the above linked website to go on with the video and the details of the test, etc.


48 posted on 04/16/2008 1:34:07 PM PDT by Syncro
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To: kristinn

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49 posted on 04/16/2008 6:18:54 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: kristinn

Hamas knows which candidate will butter their bread for them.


50 posted on 04/16/2008 6:20:10 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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