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CBS Evening News: McCain Campaign Hopes Keystone State Can Offset Western Losses, But Are Tactics Working?

[wagjr64]

Khalidi is currently the Edward Said professor of Arab Studies at Columbia. A pro-Palestinian activist, he has been a fierce critic of American foreign policy and of Israel, which he has accused of establishing an "apartheid system" of government. The PLO advocate helped facilitate negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians in the early ''90s, but he has denied he was ever an employee of the group, contradicting accounts in the New York Times and Washington Times.

The LA Times told FOXNews.com that it won''t reveal how it obtained the tape of Khalidi''s farewell party, nor will the newspaper release it. Spokeswoman Nancy Sullivan said the paper is not interested in revisiting the story. "As far as we''re concerned, the story speaks for itself," she said.

The newspaper reported Tuesday evening in a story on its Web site that the tape was from a confidential source.

"The Los Angeles Times did not publish the videotape because it was provided to us by a confidential source who did so on the condition that we not release it," the Times'' editor, Russ Stanton, said. "The Times keeps its promises to sources."

In recent months Obama has distanced himself from the man the Times says he once called a friend. "He is not one of my advisers. He''s not one of my foreign policy people," Obama said at a campaign event in May. "He is a respected scholar, although he vehemently disagrees with a lot of Israel''s policy."

[wagjr64]

LA Times Refuses to Release Tape of Obama Praising Controversial Activist
Video of farewell party for alleged PLO worker shows Obama toasting ''friend and dinner companion'' with questionable past.

Rashid Khalidi, a professor and activist tied to the PLO, was feted by Barack Obama at a farewell dinner for the Palestinian activist. (AP photo)

The Los Angeles Times is refusing to release a videotape that it says shows Barack Obama praising a Chicago professor who was an alleged mouthpiece for the Palestine Liberation Organization while it was a designated terrorist group in the 1970s and ''80s.

According an LA Times article written by Peter Wallsten in April, Obama was a "friend and frequent dinner companion" of Rashid Khalidi, who from 1976 to1982 was reportedly a director of the official Palestinian press agency, WAFA, which was operating in exile from Beirut with the PLO.

In the article -- based on the videotape obtained by the Times -- Wallsten said Obama addressed an audience during a 2003 farewell dinner for Khalidi, who was Obama''s colleague at the University of Chicago, before his departure for Columbia University in New York. Obama said his many talks with Khalidi and his wife Mona stood as "consistent reminders to me of my own blind spots and my own biases."

[mavnomore]

McCain calls Obama a Socialist, but McCain voted for the same Bail Out and wants to spend government money on the mortgage crisis

John McCain attacks Barack Obama as a socialist because of his tax policy and because he wants to help the entire population, not just the wealthiest of us. Sunday on FOX, when Chris Wallace reminded the Senator that he voted for the government bail out of Wall St. and wants to bail out bad mortgages using government funds he said that " oh well, I''''m just trying to help."

Then there is the other mantra of ''''Obama wants to redistribute the wealth of this country.'''' Let''s see, overturning the tax breaks to the wealthiest people in America to give working class families a break. And those wealthiest people would be taxed at the same rate as under Reagan. Does that mean Reagan was a socialist??

[mavnomore]

ACORN - ok, let me see if I can get your pea brains to grasp this. A few employees of ACORN fraudulently submitted names of people that never actually registered to vote. The ACORN people were paid by the number of people they registered and some unscrupulous employees grabbed a phone book or registered names like Mickey Mouse. Now, for the important question, what are the odds of Mickey Mouse or someone that knows that they never registered to vote actually showing up to vote??

However, what if you actually DID register to vote, showed up to vote and were told you cannot vote?

Block the Vote
Will the GOP''''s campaign to deter new voters and discard Democratic ballots determine the next president?

ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. & GREG PALASTPosted Oct 30, 2008

These days, the old west rail hub of Las Vegas, New Mexico, is little more than a dusty economic dead zone amid a boneyard of bare mesas. In national elections, the town overwhelmingly votes Democratic: More than 80 percent of all residents are Hispanic, and one in four lives below the poverty line. On February 5th, the day of the Super Tuesday caucus, a school-bus driver named Paul Maez arrived at his local polling station to cast his ballot. To his surprise, Maez found that his name had vanished from the list of registered voters, thanks to a statewide effort to deter fraudulent voting. For Maez, the shock was especially acute: He is the supervisor of elections in Las Vegas.

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[misha128-2009]

Posted by doctor--cool at 08:03 AM

You are complaining about the same Khaladi that was funded by organizations tied to Senator McCain. How did you miss that?

[mavnomore]

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Maez was not alone in being denied his right to vote. On Super Tuesday, one in nine Democrats who tried to cast ballots in New Mexico found their names missing from the registration lists. The numbers were even higher in precincts like Las Vegas, where nearly 20 percent of the county''''s voters were absent from the rolls. With their status in limbo, the voters were forced to cast "provisional" ballots, which can be reviewed and discarded by election officials without explanation. On Super Tuesday, more than half of all provisional ballots cast were thrown out statewide.

This November, what happened to Maez will happen to hundreds of thousands of voters across the country. In state after state, Republican operatives %u2014 the party''''s elite commandos of bare-knuckle politics %u2014 are wielding new federal legislation to systematically disenfranchise Democrats. If this year''''s race is as close as the past two elections, the GOP''''s nationwide campaign could be large enough to determine the presidency in November. "I don''''t think the Democrats get it," says John Boyd, a voting-rights attorney in Albuquerque who has taken on the Republican Party for impeding access to the ballot. "All these new rules and games are turning voting into an obstacle course that could flip the vote to the GOP in half a dozen states."

more at:
www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/23
638322/block_the_vote

[ofbyfor3]

Barack Obama is hiding ties to Islamic extremists, black nationalists and anti-Semites that stretch back decades. Some reportedly helped pay his college tuition. Others have housed his campaign operations, raised political funds, and pressed his case to be the next president of the United States. They are unsavory characters, and among his staunchest supporters.
There is no choice here..McCain is our only hope to survive America.

Posted by olivia4441 at 07:14 AM : Oct 29, 2008

Look, folks--it''s the resurrection of Joe McCarthy!

[promaclaura]

LOL!! Too bad McCain couldn''''t get some advise from "Joe the Accountant" to help with his economic plan...


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Posted by onemoretim at 08:07 AM : Oct 29, 2008

I''m married to "Tyler-Joe the Accountant/CPA" and he has worked on Forecasts and Budgets for automotive manufacturers for 20 years. Higher taxes mean layoffs, lower wages, less benefits, no employee training and so on, and so on. Budgets are so unstable for manufacturers and taxing them more will put extra people in the unemployment line, plain and simple.

[antoniof123]

Posted by doctor--cool at 08:08 AM : Oct 29, 2008

You need to understand this we swing voters are going to destroy the GOP if they continue in the way your anger is showing.

PERIOD!!!!

Now if you don''t get the message this year in 2010 it will be super minority for the GOP senate.

[mavnomore]

Increasingly desperate, John McCain and the GOP are throwing the kitchen sink at Barack Obama. No wonder they called Joe the Plumber. So this week brought racist mailers, a tidal wave of robocalls, more Bill Ayers, Sarah Palin''''s love of the "pro-American areas of this great nation," and McCain''''s outlandish claim that ACORN is "destroying the fabric of democracy." Not unwarranted wiretapping, waterboarding, extraordinary rendition, or the denial of habeas corpus. ACORN. Bringing this toxic collection together in one despicable no-goodie bag was Rush Limbaugh, who charged that Obama -- aided and abetted by Ayers and ACORN -- is "smack dab in the middle" of a 30-year plot to teach black children to "hate, hate, hate" America. It''''s going to take more than a plumber to pull McCain''''s -- and his party''''s -- reputation out of the sewer.

The Huffington Post

[mavnomore]

All those negative ads, push polls, robo calls and an Alaskan pit bull, what has it accomplish Exxon Johnny?

NYT/CBS Poll: Obama Has Record High Favorability Rating

Barack Obama''''''''s favorability "is the highest for a presidential candidate running for a first term in the last 28 years" of New York Times/CBS polls.

Meanwhile, the Times reports, Sarah Palin''''''''s "negative rating is the highest for a vice-presidential candidate as measured by The Times and CBS News. Even Dan Quayle, with whom Mrs. Palin is often compared because of her age and inexperience on the national scene, was not viewed as negatively in the 1988 campaign."

Keep preaching to your choir, LIVs - Low Information Voters - see Clueless Wing Nuts, time is running out on you and your type of smear and slander campaigning.

It''s time to take out the trash.

[mavnomore]

Obama is a Muslim
Obama is a racist
Obama is a hate monger
Obama is a Socialist

The intent of all these false accusations is to raise doubt about the candidate. See the Karl Rove playbook - when you have no record to run on start making baseless accusations of your opponent - see also character assassination. If a person is uninformed these statements create doubts about the candidate and they are more likely to support the familiar, "more of the same" candidate; that is why they say negative ads work.

Here%u2019s the deal.

On the far right you have two groups: the uninformed (blissfully ignorant) right wing authoritarian followers (sheep) that need to be told who to hate and who to fear. Proof, they actually believe the above smears. See crazed %u201CArab%u201D whack-job at McCain rally.

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[mavnomore]

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And then you have the propagandist (sheep herders) that actually do pay attention and know that Obama is not a Muslim, know that Bush, Cheney and McCain are in the pockets of Big Oil, know that climate change is real, know that the Republican party was for deregulation of the financial industry (who needs big government except to bail out their failed policy and fat cat friends), know that the Iraq war was and still is about oil, know billions are being siphoned off in Iraq by war profiteering contractors, know that we have the most unequal distribution of wealth and income of any major nation in the industrialized world and yet they continue to stand before the American people and state otherwise (lie) while knowing the actual truth all along.

[mavnomore]

Time to take out the trash

[tannerbird]

Insane McCain dumber the plumber wanda the witch and Cindy the cun! are working hard telling lies this week

[twig221]

Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a differenct result is the epitomy of stupidity. But then again that is coming from an educated leftist elitist. You can''t really say we are stupid and then point out that we are educated elitists.

[dante805]

Since the Average DEM is dumber than the avg REP look for the ACLU, ACORN, and OBAMA to be filing lawsuits left and right. Obama and Biden are two snakes - elitist Havard Lawyer who was GIVEN an education. He didnt pay for it. He rode the back of guilt ridden wealthy white liberals. Biden is trying to make sure his LAWYER son is GIVEN his senate job. What a corrupt party. Vote for REAL change - John McCain. Send the Obama Socialist and castro and chavez wanna bees a message this Tuesday. Tell the Pollsters one thing and do the opposite.

[tannerbird]

What Texas going blue who said that.

[r9119111]

Lies don''t do a thing for me. Vote for Obama/Biden.

[promaclaura]

A while back, radio talk show host Michael Savage brought up the notion that Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama couldn%u2019t pass a background investigation to become an FBI special agent.



He doesn%u2019t know how right he is.



Sen. Barack Obama wouldn%u2019t pass a routine government background investigation, not only to become an FBI agent, but a police officer as well. If he were a soldier, his background would preclude him from obtaining a security clearance. He wouldn%u2019t even qualify to be a support person in a federal agency, such as secretary, for that matter. His past cocaine usage disqualifies him from being a DEA agent.