Another Obama association
Posted by: Neocon in 2008 Race, Academia, Obama, Terrorism, tags: barack obama, central intelligence agency, cia intelligence, intelligence officer, laurie roth, military figure, palestinian liberation organization, palestinian resistance, pamela geller, president george h w bush, prospective presidential candidates, radio talk show, radio talk show host, rashid khalidi, right wing news, talk show host, terrorist sympathizer, us state department, weather underground, william ayersFortunately or unfortunately, the Wright/Obama story is dying down in the media. We’re still getting small exclamations and editorials over the absurdity of Obama’s defense of Wright or his assault on his own grandmother, but the country seems to have moved on to the next news cycle.
Now that Obama has called for a dialogue, and the media seems like it might be willing to actually discuss the associations that prospective presidential candidates keep, maybe they will be willing to call out the Messiah on this one that Pamela Geller posts over at Right Wing News.
A top official at the Pentagon during former-President George H. W. Bush’s Administration and a former CIA intelligence officer maintain that Barack Obama and former Weather Underground honcho William Ayers funneled money to Professor Rashid Khalidi, a known terrorist sympathizer.
Khalidi serves on the faculty of Columbia University in New York and is best known as the professor who invited Iranian President Ahmedinejad to visit Columbia University after he finished his speech at the United Nations. According to confidential sources, Khalidi has direct ties to the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), a group on the US State Department’s list of known terrorist groups.
“One source for this information was once a top military figure in the 1990s. He doesn’t take making allegations lightly. If he says something happened, believe me, it happened,” said syndicated radio talk show host Laurie Roth.
“Another source is a former agent for the Central Intelligence Agency, who is an expert in counterterrorism,” said Roth, who broke the story on her show Friday night.
Just who is Rashid Khalidi, one of Obama’s many buddies that he doesn’t seem to remember at all? Pamela links here.
- Professor of Middle East Studies at Columbia University
- Former PLO operative
- Has justified as legitimate Palestinian “resistance” that results in death of armed Israelis
- Rejects the possibility of a two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Here’s a quote from Khalidi that sums up just the sort of fellow he is, if you want to cut to the chase.
Khalidi had been similarly opposed to the first Gulf War in 1991. Following Iraq’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait, he called the widespread opposition to Saddam Hussein’s act of aggression an “idiots’ consensus” and urged his fellow academicians to resist it. At the time, Khalidi had also weighed in with several erroneous predictions about the war. “They’re [the Iraqis] in concrete bunkers,” he said, “and it won’t be easy to force them out without resorting to bloody hand-to-hand combat. It’s my guess they’ll fight and fight hard, even if you bomb them with B-52s.”
Opposition to the rape and plunder of Kuwait was idiotic? Enough said.
I’m sure the mainstream media will ignore this, it isn’t juicy like a few racist soundbytes from Wright, but if enough of these little associations come wriggling out of the woodwork then they won’t have a choice but to cover it. Wright took a year to ferment into something worth bottling into the news cycle, perhaps we can cut that in half for the rest of them? Sweeping revelations concerning Obama’s horrid record on Israel would be nice to see in October.
The only possible sticking point for the Khalidi story is his association with bringing Ahmedinejad to campus, remember the fun romp that turned out to be? Even the youngest, most anti-Bush college left-wingers aren’t down with the anti-homosexual Iranian leader.
