gaze, you can now go calm all those huffposters down, another of those red herrings to distract from the real issue in that Obama attended a going away dinner for Kahlidi where known Jew bashing occurred, as did William Ayers and Bernadine Dorhn. What we need to be discussing is, did Obama do or say anything to discourage the bashing. He could quickly clear this up by asking the LATimes to release the tape, instead he is using you to do his dirty work while he keeps his past sealed from the public.

Read and note the organizations who also gave funding to CPRS, wonder why?

Washington, DC – “Questions have arisen regarding the International Republican Institute’s (IRI) work with Palestinians in the 1990s.

“In the 1990s, IRI gave grants to the Center for Palestinian Research and Studies (CPRS) for polling in the West Bank/Gaza. The polls measured support for the peace process, for various Palestinian political groups, and for efforts to enhance governance in the West Bank/Gaza. At that time no other organization could credibly conduct polling in the West Bank/Gaza.

“We understand that Rashid Khalidi was one of the many founders of CPRS, and we understand that he was for some (unclear) amount of time a board member. IRI did not in the 1990s conduct background checks of grantees’ founders or board members. IRI did on a number of occasions vet CPRS as an organization, including, as was our custom, with the Israeli government, and we were given no cause for concern.

“We do not recall any contact between Mr. Khalidi and IRI, and there is no evidence that Mr. Khalidi benefitted in any way from IRI’s grants.

“Other organizations that reportedly gave funding to CPRS include the National Endowment for Democracy, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Center for International Private Enterprise, the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations, the Japanese Embassy, and Germany’s Friedrich Naumann Stiftung.

“IRI’s relationship with CPRS ended in 2000, and we understand that it no longer exists.”

http://www.iri.org/newsreleases/2008-10-29-IRI.asp

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The McCain campaign, hoping to foment doubts about Barack Obama in the Jewish community, has complained that a newspaper has “suppressed” a videotape of Obama attending a dinner with Rashid Khalidi, an Arab studies scholar and advocate of Palestinian rights, back in 2003.

But “the latest guilt-by-association target that the McCain campaign is using to hit Barack Obama could carry some collateral damage for its own candidate,” the Huffington Post notes.
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During the 1990s, while McCain served as chairman of the International Republican Institute (IRI), the group distributed several grants to the Palestinian research center co-founded by Khalidi.

A 1998 tax filing for the McCain-led group shows a $448,873 grant to Khalidi’s Center for Palestine Research and Studies for work in the West Bank, the Post notes. The relationship extends back as far as 1993, when McCain joined IRI as chairman.. Foreign Affairs noted in September of that year that IRI had helped fund several extensive studies in Palestine run by Khalidi’s group, including over 30 public opinion polls and a study of “sociopolitical attitudes.”

“Of course,” the Post writes, “there’s seemingly nothing objectionable with McCain’s organization helping a Palestinian group conduct research in the West Bank or Gaza. But it does suggest that McCain could have some of his own explaining to do as he tries to make hay out of Khalidi’s ties to Obama.”

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Curt B;
They are STILL doing horrible things. Ayers for example; Brainwashing children in their formative years to try to turn them into radical socialists like himself by tampering with their education system. I suppose you would say Hitler had some good in him because of the lies he told the German people to get elected. And I suppose Grand Inquisitor Torquemada had some good in him because he forcibly tortures Jews into converting to Christianity? I am well aware that there are socialist leftist that are going around pretending to be Christians to try to sway actual Christians into accepting the Socialist Messiah. Just the other day I smoked out a Wiccan on another thread, who was an Obama junkie talking about God. So pardon me if I am slightly skeptical if you indeed are what you are claiming to be, or another “pretender”. Please explain how you come to terms with what Christian consider the blasphemy of Obama being referring as the Messiah, when he does not fulfill any of the Biblical prophecies for the Messiah, yet is fulfilling the prophecies for the Anti-Christ, of whom Revelation states will be falsely presented as the Messiah?

Otherwise they’d be dead by now.

So your theory is, if they were really bad, God would have already struck them dead?
He didn’t strike Pharoah deed in Exodus did he? It certainly would have saved the Hebrews and Moses a lot of trouble wouldn’t it?
The Nazi Party was not utterly destroyed before they could execute 6 million Jews, 1.8-2 million Poles, 200,000-250,000 disabled and mentally ill, 220,000 to 500,000 Roma and Sinti, and 5,000 to 15,000 homosexuals during the Holocaust did he?
Osama Bin Ladin was not struck dead before he arranged for 0-11 was he?
So are you saying there must have been some good in those people, and we should not talk badly about them?

Tell you what, why don’t you prove your logic, travel to Pakistan, go into the Northern tribal area, find bin Ladin for us and “Connect with his good side”? Tell us how that goes.

You posit the Evangelical question, what would Jesus do, apparently because you apparently consider Obama the Messiah? So let’s look at that:

Would Jesus use lawyers to target and eliminate all political competitors as Obama did in his State Senate election?
Would Jesus take every measure to hide his past from review as Obama has?
Would Jesus use voter fraud to gain a place of power?
Would Jesus go after Joe the Plumber and try to destroy him for asking an honest question?

Blindly cherishing Obama in the way you do it as cult-like and those who followed Jim Jones. Enjoy the kool-aid if you want, but don’t think you can so easily turn most pious Jews and Christians like sheep to the slaughter.

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Curt B,

But, they also have some good in them. It’s hard to believe for you I know. But it’s true. Otherwise they’d be dead by now.

That’s an interesting thought. Is that based in any sort of reality or is it your own creation?

You think that evil people die quickly because they are evil?

Two words for you: Fidel. Castro.

Ummm… Since you seem to know all about what Jesus would do, let me ask you a question.

Would Jesus “hang out” with people who were not repentant of their sins? Did He “hang out” with the money changers at the temple? Or did He cast them out?

Would Jesus support a man for POTUS who is not opposed to sucking the brains out of a partially born child?

Would Jesus support a man for POTUS who is willing to allow a child who survives an abortion to be placed in a dirty linen closet to die without medical attentiion.

You claim to be a Christian.

You claim to know what Jesus would do.

Since you make these claims, I wonder what your thoughts are on those two scenarios.

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“Unfortunately, you won’t get a reporter to ask “The One” about it….” — Mike’s America

Here’s another “theory” which is made all the more plausible because it’s advanced by an insider…

It has the ring of truth to it.

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MIKE’S AMERICA – #4

Thanks! That Obamaism website is terrific. You should link to that cartoon, too. Hey, wait, I just realized that I can…

And here’s a little more dirt on O’Ayers and O’Dohrn.
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/bill-ayers-911-piece-we-didnt-do-enough

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Curt B — Go to Pakistan, find Obama, Osama, and tell him “I love you, man.” Don’t forget to notify your next of kin before you leave. …and good riddance to ya.

Now, for the sane among us…

“Hamas has a widows and orphans fund, but that doesn’t change the fact that their day job is creating widows and orphans.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNkclbvuc9w

“Crossing Paths Daily: Obama and Ayers Shared an Office (Update: For Three Years)”
http://www.verumserum.com/?p=2907

Obama and Ayers are birds of a feather…
http://www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=3710

Some more dirt on Ayers and Dohrn…
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2074513/posts

And let us not forget Rashid Khalidi, “ex” PLO terrorist…
http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/4821

Yeah, they may have a tiny bit of “good” in them, otherwise they wouldn’t exist at all, but that little bit doesn’t alter the fact that they are still about as close to 100% evil as they can get without actually achieving it, …yet. And we don’t want to give them any more opportunities to.

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Commie Tool Bill Ayers Confronted by Reporter…

A nd in a surreal moment of sick twisted irony, Ayers calls the cops. The whiny little radical needed a police escort to travel to and from his car. Never mind “the 12 police officers killed by the Weatherman group and its affiliates” I gue…

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Curt B,

Ayers is unrepentant as to what he did and wished he did more. Khalidi is still the same. As for your Jesus statement, Jesus only forgives those who ask HIM for forgiveness.

We as Christians have to try to connect with the good in everyone. That’s how we bring people to Jesus. In order to connect to that good, we have to talk to them, hang with them, be around them. We can not isolate them.

The Bible says we are to separate ourselves from worldliness. Yes, as a Christian it is my responsibility to try and bring them to Jesus, but not “hang out” with them, so that their worldly views don’t corrupt me or send me down the wrong path. If you are going to start preaching, you’d better read your Bible first.

Forgiveness must be asked for, it is not freely given, just as nothing in life is freely given, you must do something first in order to receive, in other words, you have to earn it and work for it. That is what the Bible teaches and the way that this country works.

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Curt B (Comment No.2),

Sorry to tell you that you are just a limbo. Why don’t you invite Ahmanedijad for dinner in your house? Or Kim Jong-il? You are completely out of order. Get some help. Quick!

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