Rashid Khalidi:Obama Khalidi Link Thin,Khalidi McCain Bigger Link
Rashid Khalidi:Obama Khalidi Link Thin,Khalidi McCain Bigger Link – Rashid Khalidi who is an American professor is being blasted for knowing Obama.But here is the problem Rashid Khalidi and John McCain are real friends.McCain’s relationship with Rashid Khalidi was exposed in the following article in Harpers written by Scott Horton:
The Republican party’s congressionally funded international-networking organization, the International Republican Institute–long and ably chaired by John McCain and headed by McCain’s close friend, the capable Lorne Craner–has taken an interest in West Bank matters. IRI funded an ambitious project, called the Palestine Center, that Khalidi helped to support. Khalidi served on the Center’s board of directors. The goal of that project, shared by Khalidi and McCain, was the promotion of civic consciousness and engagement and the development of democratic values in the West Bank.
That’s all we have for now on Rashid Khalidi:Obama Khalidi Link Thin,Khalidi McCain Bigger Link.
mark | Oct 30, 2008 | Reply
Khalidi is only the name and face of this story. McCain has denied ever meeting Khalidi although the IRI did grant the money to the Palenstine Center. But there is a personal friendly relationship between Obama and his wife and Khalidi and his wife. Khalidi is a red herring. The real issue is the pro-Palestinian dinner Obama attended with Khalidi, (William Ayers was also at this dinner) where Israel was condemned repeatedly along with The US relationship with Israel. So, who really does know and understand Khalidi better? Without doubt Barack Obama.
MARK K. | Oct 31, 2008 | Reply
Mr and Mrs Khalidi, babysat for Obama’s children, on several ocassions. You and I would not let a total stranger baby sit, neither would the Obamas. The relationship has only been seen like the tip of an iceberg. Why?? What is Obama concealing? Why will he not ask the LA Times to release the video?
It has been speculated that someone on Hillary’s primary campaign took the video.
On the other hand McCain has stated he never met the man!
Jay R | Nov 2, 2008 | Reply
Apparently some aspects of Khalidi’s agenda are reputable enough — even admirable enough — that the International Republican Institute thought it worth funding with substantial sums of money. Apparently the IRI was willing to overlook the parts of Khalidi’s agenda they did not agree with to find common ground on the parts they did agree with.
As Chairman of the IRI, McCain can be assumed to have been genearlly aware of and approved of the part of Khalidi’s organization’s agenda that his IRI funded so substantially. Does that mean that McCain supports all the things that Khalidi believes in? No, just that Khalidi’s organization (and by close association, Khalidi himself) is decent enough to have qualified for Republican funding for at least part of their agenda.
So why is it unreasonable to assume that Obama may have also found aspects of Khalidi’s agenda acceptable, and worth supporting verbally (though apparently not with any funding) at a social gathering?
And if other people stood up at that social gathering and said things that Obama did not agree with, that doesn’t make him responsible for their opinions.
McCain has touted his record as a maverick. He should. One of his strengths has been his willingness to step outside the ideological straightjackets of the established political order and find common ground with others to try to solve common problems. His work with liberal Democrats to enact campaign finance reform is a good example of this strengh of his. By being maverick he has broken political logjams, and the American people have benefitted.
Obama appears to have a somewhat similar streak, a certain open-mindedness that lets him listen to what someone has to say, discard the part he doesn’t agree with, yet find the common ground that allows him to work with the person to reach a common goal. He had to do this a lot when working as a community organizer in Chicago. There he had to get local polical factions that were almost incompatible with each other to work together to tackle the intractable issues he was trying to solve.
In the heat of a campaign, the willingness to recognize and work with all the players in the political game — even the players that make juicy headlines in FoxNews — becomes a liability. OK, that’s the way the game is played. But that’s a trait we need in a president, and I am glad that both McCanin and Obama appear to have it.
Jay R | Nov 2, 2008 | Reply
I obviously didn’t run spellcheck before posting my blog, but I did run factcheck…