McCain Continues Khalidi Attack on Larry King Live*

I THINK THEY SHOULD RELEASE THE TAPE JUST TO PROVE THAT MCCAIN HAS MORE TIES TO THIS KHALADI THAN WHAT HE’S ACCUSING OBAMA OF..WHAT A HYPOCRITE, LYING, DESPERATE LITTLE MAN….MCCAIN HAS GIVEN OVER 800,000 TO KHALADI’S ORGANIZATON IN GRANT FUNDS….

mccain is losing his mind.
mccain is senile.
mccain is old.
mccain is out of touch.

Actually,the rumor from sources other than the LAT is that Ayers and his wife were at the Rashid Khalidi dinner as well.
So I don’t think that McCain misspoke–although he may be mistaken on that point.
All the more reason for the LAT press its source for permission to release the video tape, and barring that to describe the tape in detail in a print story.

Jake:
I think you’ve done great work this election, but you may have flubbed this one. Sites like Real Barack Obama and No Quarter have been saying all along that Ayers, Dohrn and Obama were at the Khalidi farewell dinner. So it is relevant if Ayers was there; it suggests they were all part of the same group that hung around with one another. Here’s something from the RBO site:
“Another event occurred in February 2005 that included Ayers, Dohrn, and Obama, a fairwell dinner for Arab American Action Network (AAAN) founder Rashid Khalidi (emphasis added):
Rashid Khalidi, a Columbia professor whose recent book argues that Yasser Arafat was right to reject the best peace deal he had ever been offered, opening the way to four years of bloodshed, presented a tendentious argument for a one-state solution that strained to stay within the bounds of reasoned discourse. [...]
Khalidi’s wife, Mona Khalidi (left), who also served in Beirut as chief editor of the English section of the WAFA press agency, was hired as dean of foreign students at Columbia’s SIPA, working under Dean Anderson. In Chicago, the Khalidis founded the Arab American Action Network, and Mona Khalidi served as its president. A big farewell dinner was held in their honor by AAAN with a commemorative book filled with testimonials from their friends and political allies. These included the left wing anti-war group Not In My Name, the Electronic Intifada, and the ex-Weatherman domestic terrorists Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers. (There were also testimonials from then-state Senator Barack Obama and the mayor of Chicago.)

The LA Times wrote about this last April. They described the tape in detail in the article. They promised the source that they would not release the tape.
McCain screwed up his line because he doesn’t really believe any of this stuff.
He’s just trying to find his October surprise, bin Laden tape. McCain is desperate.
Wasn’t it McCain who talked about nailing Jello to the wall? That aptly describes his last-minute attacks on Obama.

Actually, McCain made no mistake Jake. The tape DOES allegedly have Bill Ayers AND Khalidi on it.
Just a couple of guys from the neighborhood. Neighbors whose homes the Obama’s went to dinner. Neighbors who Obama served on boards with, shared office space with, gave charitable board money to, etc.
The types of “guys in the neighborhood” whose associations he sought out as a college kid…according to his book…and yet now, wants us just to write off as “just some guys from the neighborhood” as if they just pass each other when they walk their dogs in the morning.
Why can’t he be proud of his friends? I’ve watch people on these boards defend Ayers, Wright, Khalidi, etc. as great guys. Fine. I’ll accept that premise. Why doesn’t Obama acknowledge the nature of his relationship with them then when it is so well documented? That’s the part that has so many people–including many undecided voters–scratching their heads.

Less than a week to go and still trying to sell murky “association” conspiracies that get zero traction.
Against all odds, the McCain campaign has ended up even more pathetic than the Dole campaign.

It was not an anti-Israel meeting. It was a farewell dinner. You people are bound and determined to make something of nothing.
That’s exactly why McCain and Palin will lose.
People are smart enough to see through the conservative smoke and mirrors.

” Apparently, by listening to someones view, you agree with their view?”
remember Suzie, neo-cons don’t believe in talking, they believe in force. Just look at the last 8 years of Bush “diplomacy”.

Obama has so many radical friends, I guess it is hard to keep them straight.

DEMENTIA on full display even as he is being stabbed by McPalin, who is out canvassing for her won future, realizing that the old guy is too far gone that she’s not stand a chance unless she strikes out on her own. So how DO YOU FEEL about this now, McSame? Even the most important decision you have made so far in your life, the selection of YOUR VP is now shown to be not just a misjudgment, but a COLLOSAL BLUNDER!! How can anyone trust what you say ever again?? As for your VP pick, well, you asked for it!! Let’s hope you don’t bleed to death B$ the elections from the stabbing of Palin

Keating, Liddy, Bush, Rove, Cheney, Palin, Abramoff,
Yep… too many to count. Hard to keep em straight

Release the tape! What are you hiding, or editing out?

McCain, just retire!!!!! Even your own state complains about how you neglect the veterans. You are loosing your own state of Arizona.
Maybe in your next life time
OBAMA/BIDEN 2008

KING: Is this Palestinian some sort of terrorist?
MCCAIN: We know that at that time, the PLO was a terrorist organization.
KING: He was PLO?
MCCAIN: Yes, yes — that’s what the allegation is, Larry. I haven’t seen the tape. So — but we should see the tape to make it — the American people make a judgment.

WHO WAS THAT MAN wondering around the stage at the last debate, looking for his imaginary cat?
Sarah Palin had better be qualified. John McCain has mental health problems.

Obama can put an end to this very quickly. Tell the LA Times to release the mystery tape from the party.

Release the tape! What are you hiding, or editing out?
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Perhaps Plain’s medical records are on the tape? Sure seems THEY are being editied. They were supposed to be released days ago.

It’s not up to Obama to release the video.

“Birds of a feather flock together….”
college professors?

I can not understand why reporters and news outlets are not fighting back with the LA Times over the demand of this tape. The LA Times had use of the tape only to write a story and agreed with the sources request to not release the tape. Every reporter is allowed to protect their source- where is the support for the LA Times?

McCain is History

Support for the LA Times? Do you think for a second that they would be keeping a tape suppressed that showed McCain saying things that would damage his campaign?

Why did McCain donate more than $450,000 in grant to this same Khalidi. Is this hypocrisy?

McCain = DISHONORABLE + DESPERATE

“OH GOD!!
If I were McCain, I would plead the 5th…
He just admitted he gave a PLO terrorist $800,000…
Holy Cow.”
Now if we could only get Obama to admit what is on the tape, both sides would be honest.

If there weren’t so many questionable associations with Obama it might be easier to remember a certain name at any given time.

McCain must first hold a press confrence and apologise for funding a terrorist organization funded by Khalidi.

So what, I have attened many dinners with people I completely disagree with.
Attending dinners with or even being on talking terms with someone you don’t agree with you does not make one a terrorist or radical. McCain and his running mate don’t have the record to present, serious policy decisions and issues to discuss and exhibit in depth understanding of those, so they are going with this pitiful name calling…It’s pathetic..

Why should Obama explain anything. The LA Times already did a story. Obama responded at that time.
McCain is the one bringing this up again.
Let him explain…
I doubt if he can since he has never seen the tape and is running on rumor and innuendo.

McCain has run the worse campaign in America’s history. Very unorganized.

McCain + Palin = Screwed
I THINK THE LA Times SHOULD RELEASE THE TAPE (If they have it) JUST TO PROVE THAT MCCAIN HAS MORE TIES TO THIS KHALADI THAN WHAT HE’S ACCUSING OBAMA OF..WHAT A HYPOCRITE, LYING, DESPERATE LITTLE MAN….MCCAIN HAS GIVEN OVER 800,000 TO KHALADI’S ORGANIZATON IN GRANT FUNDS….
ditto

John McCain has no viable policies, plans, or vision so he has decided to distract Americans with “swift-boat” tactics.
McCain doesn’t want to even discuss his economic plan nor foreign policy position because it looks exactly like G.W. Bush’s policies.
These men…Ayers and Khalidi are PROFESSORS at an “Ivy League” University…they both have a PhD. But McCain thinks some Americans are stupid enough to buy that they are “terrorists” …teaching our kids in one of the Top American Universities for gosh sakes.
Americans aren’t that dumb. I have to believe we are smarting than McCain believes us to be as a whole.

I have come to the conclusion that McCain and Palin are both angy white people. I base this on the fact that the people that Obama may have been in the same room with, rubbed up against, accidentally looked at, shook hands with, held an intelligent conversation with, ate with, or happened to be in the same room with, are all non-whites or of a religion other than Christian. This is only my opinion so I could be wrong on some points, but McCain is starting to really get me hot under the collar with all of these insinuations or rumors.
I do not want this man in the White House!

democratic,
I disagree. McCain/Palin aren’t really angry. They are just plain selfish and greedy. Plus, its fake outrage to stir up *their base.
Obama/Biden 08!

Uh, Ayers was at the dinner, I guess, too…wouldn’t really call that a botch.

McCsin is a terrorist. He funded Khalid to the tune of $450,000. This is a clear case of hypocrisy.

That’s It — McCain doesn”t have a chance now.

Hey Jake, this is in reference to your correction of McCain’s botched comment; In this particular incident I agree, McCain did not botch this but he’s made several blunders in the past AND SO HAS OBAMA. You seem pretty fair in you reporting but some in the media have completely ignored Obama’s blunders like the “57 state” blunder and the “my muslim faith” blunder.

Somebody PLEASE explain! I just finished listening to the O’relly factor and he kept saying Ayers was a bad guy. If he is so bad, why is he a college professor? And why is Mccain bringing up Khaladi’s organization when he supported it? If he is so bad, why is he teaching at Columbia? I am a few years older than Obama but I had an older brother who joined before being drafted, so I remember the times well. Most of our woodstock generation are on wall street now. We had the National Guard killing students and young boys being slaughtered in Nam. Things we not normal and people didn’t act normal.

I cannot BELIEVE people are saying “if Ayers and Khalidi are such bad people, why are they are professors at colleges?” Give me a break!!!!!!! The “mainstream” media is just giddy over this election, it makes me sick! Why did Obama spend $10,000,000.00 for that 30 minute spot? He gets about 20 hours a day FREE from the giddy media! And all the poor sheep that are willing to let the media control the election and our economy need to wake up, what is wrong with you people????????

Why are Ayers and Khalidi college professors instead of being in jail? Ask Ted Kennedy and OJ, maybe they all use the same defense strategy!

Who cares. The LA Times is the fool for not telling their ‘source’ to stuff it and by agreeing to not release it or tell anyone who gave them the tape. They are merely dangling raw meat in front of the internet crazies who see a conspiracy in everything.
Who cares if Ayers was at that dinner or that Khalidi and Obama were acquainted. Yassar Arafat went to the White House and Camp David for peace talks and that wasn’t the end of the world.
McCain’s IRI group gave Khalidi’s organization a whole bunch of $$ – does McCain forget that??
McCain is senile. Nov 4th can’t come fast enough and if everyone is SMART they’ll vote Obama and we’ll never have to listen to the ditherings of Old Walnut again, and we can ship Plain back to YeeHaw Holler where she belongs.

I wish that the people on this blog had done as much research on the candidates as myself. McCain has a paper trail that you can follow. He served our country and was tortured so all you idiots on this blog have the freedom of speech to say all these ugly things. I would like to see you spend one month in solitary confinement with torture everyday and see how you’d fair.. As for Obama, he has no paper trail. No one knows much about him except what he writes in his books which have about 5 years of his young adult life missing. Probably due to the cocaine he was abusing. If he was poor and goofed around in high school, how did he get into the most prestigious schools like Harvard and Columbia? The thing that scares me is the fact that he has had so many friends and mentors that have radical views. Rev. Wright(who hates America and was Obama’s mentor and spiritual advisor who he said he could no more denounce than he could his white grandmother and then he did when things got rough) Bill Ayers, a radical domestic terrorists who bombed ur Capitol Building, the Pentagon, the New York police dept. and then launched Obama’s campaign in his living room. Tony Rezko, a felon, who is now in prison for shady real estate deals which helped Obama purchase his 1.3 million dollar house at a discount. Now Khalidi who was Yassar Arafat’s(killed american diplomats) advisor. This won’t help our relations with Isreal either.
Do you see a pattern here??? I think the tape might reveal just how chummy Obama has been with all of these people who just happen to live in his neighborhood..

A couple of items:
– Sen. McCain seems to have a more intimate relationship with Rashid Khalidi than Sen. Obama through McCain’s International Republican Institute. Money passed hands. Only words passed between Obama and Khalidi. And perhaps a plate of dinner rolls.
– Gov. Palin was a journalism major at one or more of the many colleges she attended over the years. She even worked as a journalist. I guess she forgot that if a journalist burns a confidential source, and the word gets around, that’s the end of future confidential sources ever coming forward. And since the potentially damaging Obama-Khalidi information contained in the tape was reported months ago, claims of an L.A. Times coverup are specious. I guess the governor was busy practicing her beauty queen runway walk when she should have been in a class discussion of the issue.
Oh, well. Tuesday awaits.

Maybe they have video of an 8 year old Obama running up and placing the firebombs on the doorsteps too…..
give me a break…..
I have a feeling, if Obama wins this election on Tuesday, it won’t be the end of the crying by McCain…..he’ll still be in denial and arguing he is going to win this on January 20th, 2009!!

Unity? A president that calls his own grandparents “just old white folks”, goes to a church where the preacher spouts anti white american rhetoric, a wife that could not fit in at college “because she was black” and wanted all blacks there to share her views, this is “UNITY”?

The Palestinians think Obama is on their side. The Israelis think Obama is on their side. I’m VERY interested to see how this plays out.

Several comments on this story and others seem to want to reach back to college-age activities. If I had a dollar for every future national politician that did things during college that they wouldn’t want to highlight in their future campaigns, I would be able to spend this week in Aruba, instead of sitting around Oregon, waiting for the rest of the nation to finish voting…
Both Bush’s have ‘colorful’ college stories. Both Clinton’s have ‘colorful’ college stories. McCain, Biden, Obama and Palin all have ‘colorful’ college stories. In the 1850′s, Abraham Lincoln participated in the ancestor sport to professional wrestling, before becoming a lawyer. Everyone lives their ‘wild’ days, and most learn from them. Let’s try to evaluate our current presidential choices by what they have done in the last eight years or so, not the last 48 years.

Obviously, McCain is frustrated and angry.He is not addressing issues that bother American people.Instead he is making up conspiracy theories,-ve ads and issues outside America(Iraq, Iran, Turckey).These are not what is uppermost
in people’s minds.If he says Khalid is a
terrorist, he funded him and this makes
McCain also a terrorist. American hero
in Vietnam?…anyone ever heard of “carpet bombing” that killed thousands of innocents…a crime commited in the name of America.When the full & true history of Vietnam is told, some people should face war crimes tribunal!