In 1993, McCain became chairman of the International Republican Institute. He still chairs that respected organization. That same year, Khalidi helped found the Center for Palestine Research and Studies, self-described as “an independent academic research and policy analysis institution” created to meet “the need for active Palestinian scholarship on issues related to Palestine.” (Its archived Web site is HERE.) Khalidi was on the board of trustees through 1999. According to tax returns, the McCain-chaired IRI funded the organization Khalidi founded and served on to the tune of $448,873 in 1998 (click HERE to see the tax return)* as first reported by Seth Couter Walls at HuffPo. The IRI continued to give money to the CPRS after Khalidi left the group as well. http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/10/the-khalidi-gam.html
You hit the nail on the head. Also, they're the one's who are about to lose the election so why waste the time?
Not to get serious, but there's a few reasons. 1. If they (Republicans) don't respond, as far as they care, it never was brought up (Democrats do the same, but R's are much better at it. They don't respond at a better pace). 2. With their heads buried in the sand, they can't see or hear what you say. 3. They know it gets a rise out of "liberals", when they say things to anger people. So if you do it yourself, why would you fall for the same thing (even if, in this case, it's not said to rile up, but to show a case of hypocrisy).
How many times did Sen. McCain meet with Mr. Khalidi, have dinner at his house, had him babysit his kids or toast him at a party attended by a domestic terrorist?
Who knows? He was often a guest at the Khalidi's house. It's clear they were friends. I'm part Jewish and Sen. Obama's position on the Palestinian question concerns me greatly. The ease with which he changed his position for one day in front of an Israeli lobbying group concerns me even more.
Speculation gets old. How often is "often"? "Clear they were friends". I have a lot of friends that aren't terribly fond of our support of Israel (and some family), am I supposed to not be their friends anymore? Every politician says one thing one day and changes his mind the next. McCain is guilty of this too. In fact, the McCain of 2000 would not like the McCain of 2008.
And here we come with moral equivalence once again. Have McCain's core principles changed over eight years? Perhaps he's gotten more conservative, but this is someone who always admired Ronald Reagan, so it hasn't been a sea change. It's quite different when you're pro-Palestinian up until you speak to American Jews and then turn around the next day and become pro-Palestinian again. It was often enough that he was asked to provide the toast at his farewell party, where that "guy from the neighborhood" just happened to be. Do we need to speculate on how well the best man at my wedding knows me? After all, he gave our toast as well.
He wasn't exactly fond of folks like Falwell and Robertson, but when it suited him, took their endorsements. He didn't like the people who were in charge of Bush's smear campaign in 2000 (that smeared him horribly), yet hired them to run his campaign into the ground in 2008. here is a transcript from CNN (from 2000). CNN Here is one of the passages. That John McCain didn't want people to fear people. Although he ironically said this too. Although popular vote wise, he was correct. But the Pat Robertson Republicans are the ones that screwed things up AND who he's pandering to now. Unless he's talking about that socialist/marxist/terrorist obama. That is until it benefits him in the political process. McCain has gone away from what his 2000 campaign was about (granted, he did lose) and has gone into the fear and division business. link? Maybe he said one thing that you took as being pro Palestinian, when maybe he's doing what a lot of people and say "let's work this out, regardless of who is at fault". I know it might be a new concept to you, but there are such things as concessions. You can't just say one thing and have it be a blanket statement for everyone. Part of it's that I care more about our well-being than Israels. I care about our country first, and everyone else second. And it's not like because he's friends with Khalidi that it'll mean all the sudden he'll be letting Israel "die", or whatever paranoid delusions people have.
I repped maxiep for being the only McCain supporter with enough balls to enter this thread and begin a discussion.
