Former IRI Chair Defends Khalidi

Unsurprising. McCain has become (or has always been?) nothing more than a crass and hypocritical liar who will say anything to get elected. I think it’s great that this line of attack totally flopped, because it’s so clearly just a big fat lie.
IRI’s reasoning makes sense. Khalidi is exactly the kind of Palestinian we want to support. Trust me, my friends in Israel would be thrilled to have people like him on the other side of the table, as opposed to the current crop of extremist degenerates.
The Palestinians are not going to vanish into thin air – we need to give more traction to moderates like Khalidi. Calling them terrorists ain’t the way to do it.

Jake -
Thanks for posting this and eliminating the latest McCain/Palin bogeyman from the playing field. Here’s what I don’t get…why, given these facts, did McCain start this nonsense to begin with?

So, Tapper, care to report that Khalidi praised the PLO terrorist who planned and executed the operation to murder Israeli atheletes at the Olympics?
You are so in the tank for Obama that you need gills to breathe.
Go ahead, delete my comment as not being pro-Obama enough, you ABC guys are really showing the way for an Obama administration to pile on the totalitarian censorship he’s already practicing whenever anyone who opposes Obama speaks.

Backfire..I wonder what FOX has to say about that..

It is nice to defend Khalidi. But it is a strawman.
There is a tape of Obama at a Khalidi event, reportedly attended by Khalidi’s friend Bill Ayres, at which very anti-Semitic things were reportedly said.
Obama originally tried to say that Khalidi is merely a guy whose kids go to school at the Lab school. It’s the same thing Axelrod said about Ayers, which turned out not to be true.
The tape the LA Times is hiding would be interesting because we’d see Obama’s behavior, not Khalidi’s.

Fox Noise had quite a run with this story last week. They had one of their “reporters” in Khalidi’s face telling him he is at the “center” of the American Presidential Campaign and needed to answer to his “association” with Obama! Leave it to Fox to try and make a mountain out of a molehill. They love the smear, fear, and slime. It’s what they base their “news” on.

To paraphrase Tom Tole, the McCain campaign is nothing but a bridge of lies to nowhere. But this is the problem with the GOP in general. They are a problem bankrupt of idea. The entire McCain message can be summed up in one sentence: “Don’t vote for that socialist, communist, fearsome black man.” McCain has ZERO policies, ZERO solutions and ZERO ideas to get us out of the mess we are in except fear and smear and more of the same policies of his buddy Bush. What a sad, pathetic and dishonorable old man!

Steave Cuozzo | Nov 3, 2008 12:26:33 PM
Actually, a good reason for Catholics to shun the Democrats this year is Nancy Pelosi’s Meet the Press Interview in Denver. Why she decided to describe the Catholic Church’s position on when life begins as an open, debatable matter, is beyond me. The Denver archbishop had a statement about it read at Sundy mass before the program ended when aired on the east coast.
Anyone who misrepresents their own Church’s centuries old position is either untrustworthy or a total dimwit. I don’t want her anywhere near public policy.

heres the cool part..The Jewish vote will go for Obama and how dare the right keep bringing up this garbage. They dont get it..No one cares!!!!!!Fear is not working this time. Check this out “my friends”….
This is not Truman/Dewey/Dukakis…..
PRESIDENT OBAMA…what will the right do now..oh my goodness..auntie em…They may even have to live in the same country as Mr Obama..obviously because they wouldn’t possibly consider going to another country. Remember they are patriots. Its going to be fun to see the right on Wednesday..

The L.A tape? has nothing to do with the Obama campaign. You shouyld direct your comments to the LA Times and stop attempting to use it as a tool to attack Obama….that hasn’t worked up to now or are you also ignoring ALL the polls regarding negative campaing message?

Thanks for reporting this, Jake. This whole ginned-up story was another phony attempt to associate Obama with “terrorists.” Since the William Ayers attempt had limited success, they decided to find an “A-Rab terrorist,” nevermind that McCain’s association with the well-respected Prof. Khalidi’s was more substantial than Obama’s.
It is obvious why so many responsible Republicans have come out against McCain-Palin even when they disagree with some of Obama’s philosophy. They just can’t support a disonest, hypocritical, morally- and intellectually-bankrupt ticket. It’s a shame that not all of your commenters have the same high standards of these honest, principled Republicans.

Rockychance…
You shouldn’t speak on behalf of Jewish people. How can you say they are against Israel? To read the actions of American Jews through the biblical lense, as if to suggest they are betraying God and betraying Israel by supporting Obama, presumes an awful lot.

I want to know about the real anti-Americans, the AIP.
Why isn’t the MSM interested in this?

I can see where Obama learned his behavior and mannerisms.
The arrogance and smugness. The mocking, lecturing, and holier than thou attitude.
Twenty years with Rev Wright and Father Pfleger.
Obama had to enjoy their company and ideals to hang around them for so long.

“…Jesse Jackson: Under Obama, ‘decades of putting Israel’s interests first’ would end.” According to Jackson, the “Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades” will lose clout.”
Don’t believe these quotes are real? Do a web search then.

Schadenfreude:
.. is the gleeful joy you experience when someone else gets his just desserts or has his comeuppance.
I believe I am experiencing this, lil bit guilty about it……. but I am enjoying seeing republicans SQUIRMING and flailing about like chickenhawks without heads……..

blue: You forgot just one little detail: The Democratic Congess approval rating is even lower.

It’s not so strang that McCain used Khalidi as an attack point, because McCain’s whole campaign has been one strange trip.
This guy has zig zagged so much on the campaign trail the Straight Talk Express should have been pulled over long ago for reckless driving.

Well what else did you really expect from McCain regarding Khalidi since everything about his campaign has been either a LIE, SMEAR, OR DISJOINTED VILE NONSENSE? Anything that he could accuse Obama of – even if he had to make things up – McCain would LIE and SMEAR thinking he’s gaining points in the polls. He forgets so easily that the internet is here [since he doesn't know how to use one it would be easy for him to forget] and we can check out everything he says in a moments time. Since he is incapable of leading his campaign, how can anyone truly expect him to LEAD OUR COUNTRY out of its current quagmire? McCain and Palin have NEVER stated one policy, plan or program that their administration would put forth for the American public and here it is the day before the election. I learned a long time ago not to hold my breath waiting for them to say anything constructive especially after seeing Palin’s interviews with Gibson and Couric. H*ll she can’t even construct a concise sentence, so how would she ever be able to construct a plan for the country? I suspect in Alaska, she gets the “suckers” in her government to do all the hard work while she takes all the credit. And McCain is just like her; he hasn’t worked in 26 years otherwise he would NOT have allowed our financial industry to continue with NO REGULATIONS in place to protect consumers and we wouldn’t be in this financial mess. [And he now wants us to believe that he has changed his core beliefs to think he has become a REGULATOR. Yeah, right!]
Oh what a web we weave when first we try to deceive! That’s appropo for McCain and Palin. Once a LIAR, always a LIAR! That also fits for them!
I am so sick of the GOP and all the wrong, mean and vile LIES they stand for and have stood for over the past 8 years. I can’t understand how any citizen, no matter in which state they live, could actually vote for another Republican LIAR to become POTUS. It’s simply mind boggling!] I guess some people don’t learn at the same fast pace as others!

IM GLADE BARRACK GOT TO SEE HER BEFORE SHE DIED!
MY HEART GOES OUT TO THE OBAMA FAMILY!

Just shows that McCain is now saying whatever his staff gives him to say. Which doesn’t say much for his judgment in choosing those people.

R. Bruce McColm stated “Rashid Khalidi was well known for his criticism of Yasir Arafat. He never was a spokesman for the PLO” is a bald face lie!
McColm is a Well Known Promoter of CommunistS and Terrorists. He is a Mole that has wormed himself into key positions and has a secret agenda, along with the former PLO Spokesman(something McColm denies which Rashidi was) Khalid Rashidi.
How else can McColm explain his actions as an official of the IPC or The Iran Policy Committee which promotes the Iranian Communist MEK (MKO, PMOI, NCRI, Rajavi Cult, or Pol Pot of Iran) terrorists, the murders of American military officers, and Rockwell International employees?
Khalidi most certainly is a former spokesman for the PLO when it was listed as a Terrorist Organization, and his wife future Mona was also an official of the PLO. He and his wife Mona who lives in Chicago, head the AAN, an Arab organization that supports the PLO with Funds from various people and groups (Obama and Ayers provided them large amounts of money in the past from the Woods foundation) according to a former AAN employee.
Khalidi was quoted as telling the Sun Newspaper Khalidi that “Killing civilians is a war crime. It’s a violation of international law. They are not soldiers. They’re civilians, they’re unarmed. The ones who are armed, the ones who are soldiers, the ones who are in occupation, that’s different. That’s resistance.”
The Sun editorial argued that by failing to distinguish between Palestinian combatants and noncombatants, Khalidi implies that all Palestinians have this right to resist, which it argued was incorrect under international law.
McCone defending Khalidi amounts to nothing but a Mockery-as they are Both part of the same ilk!!