Is October over yet? Could this be the "surprise"?

[suston96]

RASHID KHALIDI - Google his name. All over Fox news.

This should be the last salvo from the McCain campaign. This is a last ditch effort to smear Obama. Nothing else has worked. This won't either.

http://fightthesmears.com/articles/24/KhalidiSmear?source=sem-pm-fts-ay-search-nsw&gclid=CLCJqa36zJYCFQ8Qagod4BJ2zQ

The Truth about Barack Obama and Rashid Khalidi

Ugly insinuations about Barack Obama’s relationship with a former neighbor and university colleague, Rhashid Khalidi, are completely false.

Barack’s record on Israel is clear: he strongly supports the U.S.-Israel relationship. He believes that our first and incontrovertible commitment in the Middle East must be to the security of Israel, America’s strongest ally in the Middle East.

Barack and Joe Biden believe strongly in Israel’s right to protect its citizens. They have consistently supported foreign assistance to Israel. They have called for continuing U.S. cooperation with Israel in the development of missile defense systems.

Barack has nothing to hide: he has openly described his relationship with Rashid Khalidi:

“ is not one of my advisors; he’s not one of my foreign policy people. His kids went to the Lab school where my kids go as well. He is a respected scholar, although he vehemently disagrees with a lot of Israel’s policy…To pluck out one person who I know and who I’ve had a conversation with who has very different views than 900 of my friends and then to suggest that somehow that shows that maybe I’m not sufficiently pro-Israel, I think, is a very problematic stand to take…So we gotta be careful about guilt by association.”


Bipartisanship — getting along with people we disagree with — is something we prize in our politicians. For example, Barack has been widely praised for working with conservative Republican Senator Tom Coburn to pass a bill making government spending searchable over the Internet (Obama bio). So why should it be any different that Barack knows a respected scholar, former university colleague, and former neighbor who disagrees with him about Israel?

Smears, insults, and innuendo about the nature of Barack’s relationship with Khalidi are completely unfounded. Guilt-by-association is always a questionable tactic.

Again, this is their last try and it will not work.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

1. God willing people will see through this. I've got a gag reflex just hearing Palin's name

It is like my body is rejecting the sound waves utterance of her name produces.

[Hope And Change]

2. Time is running out for McCain.The more negative he gets the more he will lose support.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

4. It will succeed in making his supporters meaner and more hateful though.

And we don't need that.

[ingac70]

3. McCain Funded Work Of Palestinian His Campaign Hopes To Tie To Obama

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/28/mccain-funded-work-of-pal_n_138606.html

[endarkenment]

5. OMFG Obama has a friend that doesn't share his views!

This is nothing. There is nothing there.

[IndianaJones]

6. McCain funded the organization this guy helped to found. bwaaaahahaha. nt.

[scheming daemons]

7. Khalidi is just more of the "Ayers" angle.... and it will have the same result

[Alter Ego]

8. Considering that McCain has his own ties to Khalidi, I really don't know

if they want this to blow up in their faces like everything else.

[progressivebydesign]

9. Consider McCain's ties to Khalidi, I'm shocked they'd go there. No political instincts whatsoever.

Frankly, I think the goal of the McPalin campaign is to make a thousand little cuts in Obama's campaign. They cannot land one blow to sink Obama's campaign, so they hope to chip away at it.. like a small rat with a large hunk of cheese.

All that the scumbag Schmidt and others hope for is to make enough of these scurrilous claims to create DOUBT in voters minds when they get into the voting booth. Unfortunately, that strategy ONLY works when YOUR candidate is someone who appears steady and stable, which McCain does not.

[okieinpain]

10. it just cracks me up how all of these so-called bad people

are university professors. weird world.

[thewiseguy]

11. There is no October Surprise. Quit obsessing about one.