Gov. Sarah Palin on Wednesday said Sen. Barack Obama has ties to a Columbia University professor who she said is “a former spokesperson for the Palestinian Liberation Organization.” Palin said her assertion “is not negative campaigning to call someone out on their record.”
“It seems that there is yet another radical professor from the neighborhood who spent a lot of time with Barack Obama going back several years,” Palin said at an event in Bowling Green, Ohio.
Khalidi is a leading scholar of Middle Eastern studies at Columbia, and he was a contemporary of Obama’s while on the faculty of the University of Chicago. Khalidi has been a harsh critic of U.S. foreign policy toward Israel and has accused the country of “occupying” Palestinian territories. But he has denied acting as a PLO spokesman during a seven-year period in the 1970s and 1980s.
Khalidi said Wednesday, “I am not speaking to the media at this time, and certainly not until this idiot wind passes.”
That’s just awesome. I wish I’d thought of that. How appropos!
The paper reported that a young Palestinian-American woman recited a poem at the farewell party that accused the Israeli government of terrorism for its treatment of Palestinians and was highly critical of U.S. support of Israel.
Being critical of U.S. support of Israel + being connected to anything associated in American pop culture with Muslims = terrorist ties. Which means that since I am friends with a Lebanese dude, I’m probably a “Hamas spokesperson.” And we’d best not go anywhere near what my OTHER friendship with an Iranian dude named, of all things, Hossein says about me. I should probably stop fighting the exposure trend, haul my dynamite-lined burqa out of the closet and just openly wear that bitch with pride.
The McCain campaign accused the Los Angeles paper of “intentionally suppressing” a videotape it obtained from that dinner and demanded that it release the footage. The Times said it won’t release the footage because a reporter promised a source that the video would not be made public.
Asked why the McCain campaign was bringing the matter up six months after the article appeared, an aide replied, “Because we are one week away from potentially electing Barack Obama.”
Heee! You KNOW it’s bad when they’re openly admitting it’s an act of last-minute desperation.
Earlier Wednesday, Palin delivered her second policy address of the campaign season.
Leaving it a little late, aren’t you, Sarey? Or maybe we shouldn’t even open that can of worms right now…
Palin pointed to her experience as governor as evidence she can help the U.S. achieve energy security.
“Whatever the good ol’ boys are running these days, I know it’s not the state of Alaska,” she said in Toledo, Ohio.
Er,Ted Stevens? ….Ted Stevens….Ted Stevens..?
The Alaska governor stressed expanding drilling, using nuclear power and tapping into the “American ingenuity” to solve the energy problem.
Tapping into the “American ingenuity” as a domestic self-sustaining energy source!
Well, it’s a thought, but I think the movie pretty much proved that it isn’t really that good an idea in the long run.
I can’t read any more. Teh stupid, it burns!