McCain Hits Dems, Obama On Financial Mess

Update: It's on - damn!

All: Please see excerpt from John McCain’s remarks as prepared for delivery today in Albuquerque, New Mexico:

My opponent has invited serious questioning by announcing a few weeks ago that he would quote — “take off the gloves.” Since then, whenever I have questioned his policies or his record, he has called me a liar.

Rather than answer his critics, Senator Obama will try to distract you from noticing that he never answers the serious and legitimate questions he has been asked. But let me reply in the plainest terms I know. I don’t need lessons about telling the truth to American people. And were I ever to need any improvement in that regard, I probably wouldn’t seek advice from a Chicago politician.

My opponent’s touchiness every time he is questioned about his record should make us only more concerned. For a guy who’s already authored two memoirs, he’s not exactly an open book. It’s as if somehow the usual rules don’t apply, and where other candidates have to explain themselves and their records, Senator Obama seems to think he is above all that. Whatever the question, whatever the issue, there’s always a back story with Senator Obama. All people want to know is: What has this man ever actually accomplished in government? What does he plan for America? In short: Who is the real Barack Obama? But ask such questions and all you get in response is another barrage of angry insults.

It's about time. McCain starts attacking Obama on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. That significant portion of our current problem needs to be placed squarely where it belongs - on the Democrats in Congress and even Obama himself. He took their money, hired them for his campaign - he needs to be forced to own it, as he'll never take responsibility for anything left to his own device.

Our current economic crisis is a good case in point. What was his actual record in the years before the great economic crisis of our lifetimes?

This crisis started in our housing market in the form of subprime loans that were pushed on people who could not afford them. Bad mortgages were being backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and it was only a matter of time before a contagion of unsustainable debt began to spread. This corruption was encouraged by Democrats in Congress, and abetted by Senator Obama.

Senator Obama has accused me of opposing regulation to avert this crisis. I guess he believes if a lie is big enough and repeated often enough it will be believed. But the truth is I was the one who called at the time for tighter restrictions on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that could have helped prevent this crisis from happening in the first place.

Senator Obama was silent on the regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and his Democratic allies in Congress opposed every effort to rein them in. As recently as September of last year he said that subprime loans had been, quote, “a good idea.” Well, Senator Obama, that “good idea” has now plunged this country into the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.

To hear him talk now, you’d think he’d always opposed the dangerous practices at these institutions. But there is absolutely nothing in his record to suggest he did. He was surely familiar with the people who were creating this problem. The executives of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have advised him, and he has taken their money for his campaign. He has received more money from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac than any other senator in history, with the exception of the chairman of the committee overseeing them.

Did he ever talk to the executives at Fannie and Freddie about these reckless loans?

Did he ever discuss with them the stronger oversight I proposed? If Senator Obama is such a champion of financial regulation, why didn’t he support these regulations that could have prevented this crisis in the first place? He won’t tell you, but you deserve an answer.

Comments

[Watchman]

And McCain didn't say this in the first debate when millions were watching because....

[jaime]

"It's about time. McCain starts attacking Obama on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac."

How DARE Obama's campaign manager receive over $100,000 from Fannie and Freddy and $15,000 a month from them up until last month!!!!!

Oh wait...

[chris]

Ooooh - watch out libruls, the old man is up from his nap and is getting testy!!

[Totally Heterosexual Conservative]

It's fun watching wingerism crumble and burn in real time.

[hdtv]

It's not McCain saying it. He can't. It's National Republican party.

But I don't think it matters. Republicans have no credibility.

[ToddK]

Yes, it is about time, but if McCain has any chance of victory, he has to hit harder, and on more.
Obama is the scariest politician in mondern times, and he is protected by so many.
McCain is going to be called a racist regardless, so hit on the Black Nationalism, from Wright's church.
Hit on Obama's childhood mentor, who is a communists and pedophile.
Go after his plans to cripple our military.
Expose Obama's ties to Odinga, and the fact that he campaigned for him in 2006. Odinga wants Sharia for Kenya.
Let talk about Obama's dual citizenship, that expired in 1982. Can he even run for President?
We need to ask him about ACORN.
And the media needs to take a hard look at Obama's illegal and foreign campaign contributions. There are reports that the FEC is refusing to investigate so close to the election, even though Obama blatantly reports the contributions in question....
Obama needs to explain the Saudi connection to his tuition, Michelle's raise in Chicago, and his view on reparations.
Obama cannot sustain scrutiny on all of these issues, and many, many more.
If the rest of the election is about exposing Obama, then McCain can win. If not, it's over.
It's time for carpet bombing, not shadowboxing.

[SUSAN]

Oh yes !
Hit him with your best shots McCain...fire away. Give Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. hell !
Lay it all out there. Tell it like it "is". I am sure McCain, that you know what the definition of the word "is" is.
If it hurts you so be it. The people will have been warned and at least they will know what a crook they are voting for.
GO McCain ! I am with you my friend !

[Anna]

I hope McCain won't even slow down at Freddie and Fannie and will go on the address those mysterious internet campaign donations being made to Obama as well his ACORN connection. GOP has to have enough votes to not only win but off-set the cheating and voter fraud from Obama's "community action" ACORN already the subject of several investigations for voter fraud.

ACORN will be likely busing people in to vote illegally again this election and this needs to be stopped.

I thought campaigns had to have full financial disclosure so who are these mystery donations Obama received over the internet? Stinks like a Soros to me but should be exposed.

Which side was always carping for redistribution of wealth and saying that all were entitled to a mortgage regardless of being qualified or not and most especially minorities as to fail to provide them with mortgages would be racist? Believe that's the far left, and OBAMA and BIDEN are the two MOST liberal senators in the nation.

They should be indicted, not elected.

[templar knight]

Yeah, let's turn the economy over to the Democrats, especially Pelosi and her Congress. Oh, that's what we did in 2007, and look where that got us. Yeah, let's cut our fricking heads off and now hand it to Obama, who has all those degrees in economics. A REAL expert like Obama ought to tell us something about the economy, other than he's not the crook we know he is.

[S]

Gotta love it !

Obama and 'friends'

Rev Wright
Tony Rezko
Michelle Obama
Louis Farrakhan
William Ayres
Bernadine Dorhn
Rashid Khalidi
Nadhmi Auchi
Frank Marshall Davis
Saul Alinsky
Father Pfleger
Kwame Kilpatrick
Rev Meeks
George Soros
Raila Odingo
Abongo Obama
Black Panthers
Ludacris
Jim Johnson
Franklin Raines
Ahmad Yousuf (Hamas)
Fidel, Raul Castro
Hugo Chavez
Daniel Ortega
Kim Jong Il

Change we can 'bereave' in

Vote FOR America ... McCain/Palin '08

Barack Hussein Obama actively sought and received the stamp of approval of a Marxist third party that operated briefly in Chicago between 1992 and 1998.

The New Party was a Marxist political coalition whose objective was to endorse and elect leftist public officials -- most often Democrats. The New Party's short-term objective was to move the Democratic Party leftward, thereby setting the stage for the eventual rise of new Marxist third party.

Most New Party members hailed from the Democratic Socialists of America and the militant organization ACORN. The party's Chicago chapter also included a large contingent from the Committees of Correspondence, a Marxist coalition of former Maoists, Trotskyists, and Communist Party USA members

PLEASE HELP TO GET THIS OUT TO EVERY AMERICAN VOTER.

This video may help make up your mind on who's more to blame for the economic crisis. It's excerpts from a late 2004 hearing to investigate Fannie and Freddie's illegal bookkeeping.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs

Don't be afraid to check it out libs, watch your leaders in action.

Why isn't the American press telling us that Obama is supported by every Muslim organization in the world?

Is it mere coincidence that an anti-capitalist run for President at the same time Islamic sharia finance and law is trying to make advancing strides into the United States? Is it mere coincidence this same candidate wants to dis-armour nuclear capability at a time when terrorist Muslim nations are expanding their nuclear weapons capability? Is it mere coincidence this candidate wants to reduce our military at a time of global jihad from Muslim nations?

Vote FOR America ... McCain/Palin '08

[Nell]

Fight with me, Fight with ME!
Hoo, boy, now he's fighting--let's make sure our elected officials have his back, and we do our part

[jaime]

"Oh, that's what we did in 2007, and look where that got us."

Yes. The collapse of the entire world economy is completely the fault of the razor thin Democratic majority that's held power under a Republican president for just the last 20 months.

McCain is getting his teeth knocked in, along with the entire conservative movement. It's looking like the American people aren't as stupid as you want them to be.

You have 2 options as I see them 1) leave the country 2) invest in a new pair of Nikes and await Haley's comet 3) learn to love your new Islamic overlords.

[templar knight]

Haha! As in funny. If you think we, and I mean a very large number of Americans, half at least, will let our country be taken over by socialists, Islamists and misfits like you, you're deranged. Which you in fact are.

Oh, and in case YOU didn't know, your terrorist-supporting boy hasn't won anything. I believe the election is in November, although your boy and his supporters have committed every type of voter fraud already, including taking millions from fakes, and many more millions from foreigners. So much for the Democratic "concern" for ethics. Just another Democratic lie.

[templar knight]

And you ought to learn how to count, boy, before you start stating people's options.

[jaime]

"Islamists and misfits"

Bow before your Al Qaeda overlords. Halalalalalala!!!!

[jaime]

Whoops. I should really preview before I post. I blame my copy editors.

[jaime]

Posted by: S | Monday, October 06, 2008 at 05:10 PM

Ludacris AND Kim Jong Il?

You forgot to mention Satan, Hitler, Bin Laden, Sauron, Goldfinger, The Unibomber, Jason Voorhees, Freddy Kreuger, and Dracula, and Dexter.

Size 10 Nike, you said?

[templar knight]

"I blame the copy editors."

Work for the AP, do you? What a little shill!

[templar knight]

"Halalalalala".

Gay, too, eh. LOL. I'm really scared of you gay, newsie types.

[jaime]

"Gay, too, eh."

Ah, the old standby. When in doubt, call the opposition a dirty faggot.

[BobinStamford]

Wow, it appears that the shiteous old coot is really getting desperate. Hey, I hear that Obama has a couple of BLACK BABIES!! Hahaha!!!

The surge WORKED. The economy is STRONG!!

Best for the old 'warrior' to get into Cindy's medicine cabinet. I see lots of PAIN out there.

[jaime]

It's patheric really. McCain's is being beaten like a senior at a low rent retirement home and the right wing is frothing at the mouth.

Let's hope the Secret Service has their eyes on you sick fucks with all the "Terrorist!" and "Kill Him!" rhetoric being uttered at recent Republican rallies.

[jaime]

"patheric"

Note to self: hit preview.

[PA]

"The collapse of the entire world economy is completely the fault of the razor thin Democratic majority that's held power under a Republican president for just the last 20 months."

Well, they had 20 months to sound the alarm then didn't they? All we got was platitudes from Barney Frank that everything was peachy keen.

[jaime]

"Well, they had 20 months to sound the alarm then didn't they?"

Yeah. I wish SOME Democrat sounded the alarm of an impending housing and banking crisis.

Oh, wait...

BARACK OBAMA MARCH 22, 2007

"Dear Chairman Bernanke and Secretary Paulson,

There is grave concern in low-income communities about a potential coming wave of foreclosures. Because regulators are partly responsible for creating the environment that is leading to rising rates of home foreclosure in the subprime mortgage market...

We cannot sit on the sidelines while increasing numbers of American families face the risk of losing their homes.
And while neither the government nor the private sector acting alone is capable of quickly balancing the important interests in widespread access to credit and responsible lending, both must act and act quickly.

Working together, the relevant private sector entities and regulators may be best positioned for quick and targeted responses to mitigate the danger....

I would also urge you to facilitate a serious conversation about the following:

* What standards investors should require of lenders, particularly with regard to verification of income and assets and the underwriting of borrowers based on fully indexed and fully amortized rates.

* How to facilitate and encourage appropriate intervention by loan servicing companies at the earliest signs of borrower difficulty.

* How to support independent community-based-organizations to provide counseling and work-out services to prevent foreclosure and preserve homeownership where practical.

* How to provide more effective information disclosure and financial education to ensure that borrowers are treated fairly and that deception is never a source of competitive advantage.

* How to adopt principles of fair competition that promote affordability, transparency, non-discrimination, genuine consumer value, and competitive returns.

* How to ensure adequate liquidity across all mortgage markets without exacerbating consumer and housing market vulnerability.

Of course, the adoption of voluntary industry reforms will not preempt government action to crack down on predatory lending practices, or to style new restrictions on subprime lending or short- term post-purchase interventions in certain cases...

There is an opportunity here to bring different interests together in the best interests of American homeowners and the American economy. Please don't let this opportunity pass us by."

[North Dallas Thirty]

"How DARE Obama's campaign manager receive over $100,000 from Fannie and Freddy and $15,000 a month from them up until last month!!!!!"

You mean, how dare OBAMA HIMSELF receive over $100,000 from Fannie and Freddy.........

http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2008/07/top-senate-recipients-of-fanni.html

and have their former CEOs, both of whom presided over accounting scandals and reckless behavior, a person who presided over predatory lending through subprime mortgages and cost hundreds of people their savings, and another person who openly pushed and encouraged Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to get involved in even riskier loans at taxpayer expense, as his economic advisors and campaign staffers.

http://proteinwisdom.com/pub/?p=1718

[North Dallas Thirty]

Sorry, silly Jaime boy, but the grownups were talking about that long before Barack Obama was.

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/record.xpd?id=109-s20060525-16&bill=s109-190#sMonofilemx003Ammx002Fmmx002Fmmx002Fmhomemx002Fmgovtrackmx002Fmdatamx002Fmusmx002Fm109mx002Fmcrmx002Fms20060525-16.xmlElementm0m0m0m

Know what Barack Obama was doing?

He was filing lawsuits claiming that banks like Citibank who required standards of people to whom they were loaning money were "racist" and should be punished.

[BobinStamford]

Lest you patriots forget, your geriatric savior spent SIX years cavorting with COMMUNISTS. Yes, godless yellow devils! Day and night. Christmas, birthdays, Easter, 4th of July - you name it! Makes a guy wonder what rubbed off.

Hmmm....

[jaime]

"He was filing lawsuits claiming that banks like Citibank who required standards of people to whom they were loaning money were "racist" and should be punished."

Oh, so you're going for the "loans to dark people caused this mess" excuse?

[seekeronos]

"--- SIX years cavorting with COMMUNISTS ---"

Ah, yes. Getting bamboo splinters shoved up under your fingernails, beaten daily, getting your arms and shoulders put out of joint on a regular basis... among other such treatments.

Indeed, it must have been a regular six-year vacation with daily visits to the Spa of Doom up in the Hanoi Hilton.

That thar' be some cavorting about with commies for you.

I highly recommend you try it Bob, it might do your spirits some good. I might even pay for your ticket to the nearest Red Chinese city, so long as you wear this nice sign I'll make up for you with a nice message in Chinese characters that will ensure that your hosts give you the royal treatment you so richly deserve.

[seekeronos]

"---

"He was filing lawsuits claiming that banks like Citibank who required standards of people to whom they were loaning money were "racist" and should be punished."

Oh, so you're going for the "loans to dark people caused this mess" excuse?

---"

As a matter of fact...

...yes, we will blame the corporations and the bad legislation that forced them to loan money to people with no chance of ever servicing their debt REGARDLESS OF SKIN COLOUR.

That's pretty racist of us, eh? And it really is too bad that there is a certain indigenous urban culture that seems to frown upon, and actually actively try to prevent Negroes from making something of themselves.

It's not racism, you foolish knave, to see that a bankrupt culture will lead to bankruptcy in personal finance, and ultimately, in national finance.

It is REALISM.

But all you sorry communists know is division and strife, and manipulations of "classes" to achieve your goals...

...and I am willing to be that YOU, jaime, and your co-labourers in your wicked, Bolshevik "cause" are too stupid to even see that YOU are nothing more than a pawn in The Game... raising yourself up on your imaginary high horse and raining down accusations of racism, when YOUR party PERPETUATES MISERY and POVERTY and the continued DEGRADATION of the Negro race.

If there is anyone the Negroes should be angry at, it is YOUR party, for the 90 years of slavery they endured under the auspices of the Democrats, then the 100 years of Jim Crow, and finally, no less than another 45+ years of use as pets, kept deliberately in ignorance for your own selfish reasons.

It is the REPUBLICANS who are responsible for freeing the oppressed Negroes, for working to end Jim Crow, and for trying at nearly every stretch to assimilate them and to give them the hope of all Americans who dare to dream of becoming something as good as or greater than their forefathers.

May your deceptions and your wickedness be returned upon your heads, for your abuse and repeated crimes against the Negro race.

[templar knight]

Lest you traitors forget, Bobby, your boy ain't in there yet, and his terrorist associations are bound to come out. I sure hope your boys in the AP can keep the lies and propaganda going, but I doubt it. The truth about Obama is bound to come out before the election. And then he loses. What a disappointment that will be for you. After all the lies, deceit, election fraud, illegal campaign contributions, etc. on your boy's behalf, and he still loses. Sad. Haha.

[BobinStamford]

Yes, yes oil baron. That little old man will ride victorious into November. It warms my heart to see you deadenders in denial.

The entertainment value of having a clown like you wake up to a black librul president every day is simply hilarious.

Better enjoy October, while it's still your country.

[templar knight]

"..black librul president.."

Here I thought the guy was half-white. You threw his mother under the bus, too, Bobby. As for librul, hardly liberal in the classic sense, but librul in the sense of Leftist, communist, socialist, Nazi...that kind of librul, the kind you are, Bobby, the kind fated to be thrown into the dustbin of history. Again.

Yes, the tree mayhap needs watering again, Bobby. But I'll not laugh at you, Bobby, but the satisfaction I will get from knowing that traitors like you will receive their due can hardly be contained. Yes, satisfaction. That's it.

[mary]

Jaime, you bring up a very good point actually. How come the lending requirements were relaxed for people of color and certain Hispanics but, if you were plain old "poor white" or "garden variety Indian" or chinese american you were subject to the original lending requirements?

[Worst President Ever]

You really think Lincoln could find a spot in today's Republican Party? Perhaps he could have helped write Mehlman's apology for the Republican's Southern Strategy.

As for the destruction of Jim Crow, that came through the work of Martin Luther King, LBJ, RFK with much credit to the Supreme Court under Earl Warren - not a particularly popular figure with today's Republcians.

It's true that many southern Democrats were certainly racist, but once the Democratic Party backed civil rights for all, many of those racists found a new home in the Republican Party.

Temp - your racism is starting to shine through - again.

[Susan]

Barack Hussein Obama worked with terrorist and help fund organizations that rejects racist Israels existence
Obama worked with terroristSenator helped fund organization that rejects 'racist' Israel's existence

Sen. Barack Obama

JERUSALEM – The board of a nonprofit organization on which Sen. Barack Obama served as a paid director alongside a confessed domestic terrorist granted funding to a controversial Arab group that mourns the establishment of Israel as a "catastrophe" and supports intense immigration reform, including providing drivers licenses and education to illegal aliens.

The co-founder of the Arab group in question, Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi, also has held a fundraiser for Obama. Khalidi is a harsh critic of Israel, has made statements supportive of Palestinian terror and reportedly has worked on behalf of the Palestine Liberation Organization while it was involved in anti-Western terrorism and was labeled by the State Department as a terror group.

In 2001, the Woods Fund, a Chicago-based nonprofit that describes itself as a group helping the disadvantaged, provided a $40,000 grant to the Arab American Action Network, or AAAN, for which Khalidi's wife, Mona, serves as president. The Fund provided a second grant to the AAAN for $35,000 in 2002.

Obama was a director of the Woods Fund board from 1999 to Dec. 11, 2002, according to the Fund's website. According to tax filings, Obama received compensation of $6,000 per year for his service in 1999 and 2000.

Obama served on the Wood's Fund board alongside William C. Ayers, a member of the Weathermen terrorist group which sought to overthrow of the U.S. government and took responsibility for bombing the U.S. Capitol in 1971.

Ayers, who still serves on the Woods Fund board, contributed $200 to Obama's senatorial campaign fund and has served on panels with Obama at numerous public speaking engagements. Ayers admitted to involvement in the bombings of U.S. governmental buildings in the 1970s. He is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

The $40,000 grant from Obama's Woods Fund to the AAAN constituted about a fifth of the Arab group's reported grants for 2001, according to tax filings obtained by WND. The $35,000 Woods Fund grant in 2002 also constituted about one-fifth of AAAN's reported grants for that year.

The AAAN, headquartered in the heart of Chicago's Palestinian immigrant community, describes itself as working to "empower Chicago-area Arab immigrants and Arab Americans through the combined strategies of community organizing, advocacy, education and social services, leadership development, and forging productive relationships with other communities."

It reportedly has worked on projects with the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, which supports open boarders and education for illegal aliens.

The AAAN in 2005 sent a letter to New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson in which it called a billboard opposing a North Carolina-New Mexico joint initiative to deny driver's licenses to illegal aliens a "bigoted attack on Arabs and Muslims."

Speakers at AAAN dinners and events routinely have taken an anti-Israel line.

The group co-sponsored a Palestinian art exhibit, titled, "The Subject of Palestine," that featured works related to what some Palestinians call the "Nakba" or "catastrophe" of Israel's founding in 1948.

According to the widely discredited Nakba narrative, Jews in 1948 forcibly expelled hundreds of thousands - some Palestinians claim over one million - Arabs from their homes and then took over the territory.

Historically, about 600,000 Arabs fled Israel after surrounding Arab countries warned they would destroy the Jewish state in 1948. Some Arabs also were driven out by Jewish forces while they were trying to push back invading Arab armies. At the same time, over 800,000 Jews were expelled or left Arab countries under threat after Israel was founded.

The theme of AAAN's Nakba art exhibit, held at DePaul University in 2005, was "the compelling and continuing tragedy of Palestinian life ... under [Israeli] occupation ... home demolition ... statelessness ... bereavement ... martyrdom, and ... the heroic struggle for life, for safety, and for freedom."

Another AAAN initiative, titled, "Al Nakba 1948 as experienced by Chicago Palestinians," seeks documents related to the "catastrophe" of Israel's founding.

A post on the AAAN site asked users: "Do you have photos, letters or other memories you could share about Al-Nakba-1948?"

That posting was recently removed. The AAAN website currently states the entire site is under construction.

Pro-PLO advocate held Obama fundraiser, describes Obama as 'sympathetic'

AAAN co-founder Rashid Khalidi was reportedly a director of the official PLO press agency WAFA in Beirut from 1976 to 1982, while the PLO committed scores of anti-Western attacks and was labeled by the U.S. as a terror group. Khalidi's wife, AAAN President Mona Khalidi, was reportedly WAFA's English translator during that period.

Rashid Khalidi at times has denied working directly for the PLO but Palestinian diplomatic sources in Ramallah told WND he indeed worked on behalf of WAFA. Khalidi also advised the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid Conference in 1991.

During documented speeches and public events, Khalidi has called Israel an "apartheid system in creation" and a destructive "racist" state.

He has multiple times expressed support for Palestinian terror, calling suicide bombings response to "Israeli aggression." He dedicated his 1986 book, "Under Siege," to "those who gave their lives ... in defense of the cause of Palestine and independence of Lebanon." Critics assailed the book as excusing Palestinian terrorism.

While the Woods Fund's contribution to Khalidi's AAAN might be perceived as a one-time run in with Obama, the presidential hopeful and Khalidi evidence a deeper relationship.

According to a professor at the University of Chicago who said he has known Obama for 12 years, the Democratic presidential hopeful first befriended Khalidi when the two worked together at the university. The professor spoke on condition of anonymity. Khalidi lectured at the University of Chicago until 2003 while Obama taught law there from 1993 until his election to the Senate in 2004.

Khalidi in 2000 held what was described as a successful fundraiser for Obama's failed bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, a fact not denied by Khalidi.

Speaking in a joint interview with WND and the John Batchelor Show of New York's WABC Radio and Los Angeles' KFI Radio, Khalidi was asked about his 2000 fundraiser for Obama.

"I was just doing my duties as a Chicago resident to help my local politician," Khalidi stated.

Khalidi said he supports Obama for president "because he is the only candidate who has expressed sympathy for the Palestinian cause.

" Khalidi also lauded Obama for "saying he supports talks with Iran. If the U.S. can talk with the Soviet Union during the Cold War, there is no reason it can't talk with the Iranians." Asked about Obama's role funding the AAAN, Khalidi claimed he had "never heard of the Woods Fund until it popped up on a bunch of blogs a few months ago."

He terminated the call when petitioned further about his links with Obama.

Contacted by phone, Mona Khalidi refused to answer WND's questions about the AAAN's involvement with Obama.

Obama's campaign headquarters did not reply to a list of WND questions sent by e-mail to the senator's press office.

Obama, American terrorist in same circles

Obama served on the board with Ayers, who was a Weathermen leader and has written about his involvement with the group's bombings of the New York City Police headquarters in 1970, the Capitol in 1971 and the Pentagon in 1972.

"I don't regret setting bombs. I feel we didn't do enough," Ayers told the New York Times in an interview released on Sept. 11, 2001

"Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon," Ayers wrote in his memoirs, titled "Fugitive Days." He continued with a disclaimer that he didn't personally set the bombs, but his group set the explosives and planned the attack.

A $200 campaign contribution is listed on April 2, 2001 by the "Friends of Barack Obama" campaign fund. The two taught appeared speaking together at several public events, including a 1997 University of Chicago panel entitled, "Should a child ever be called a 'super predator?'" and another panel for the University of Illinois in April 2002, entitled, "Intellectuals: Who Needs Them?"

The charges against Ayers were dropped in 1974 because of prosecutorial misconduct, including illegal .

Ayers is married to another notorious Weathermen terrorist, Bernadine Dohrn, who has also served on panels with Obama. Dohrn was once on the FBI's Top 10 Most Wanted List and was described by J. Edgar Hoover as the "most dangerous woman in America." Ayers and Dohrn raised the son of Weathermen terrorist Kathy Boudin, who was serving a sentence for participating in a 1981 murder and robbery that left 4 people dead.

Obama advisor wants talks with terrorists

The revelations about Obama's relationship with Khalidi follows a recent article quoting Israeli security officials who expressed "concern" about Robert Malley, an adviser to Obama who has advocated negotiations with Hamas and providing international assistance to the terrorist group.

Malley, a principal Obama foreign policy adviser, has penned numerous opinion articles, many of them co-written with a former adviser to the late Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat, petitioning for dialogue with Hamas and blasting Israel for numerous policies he says harm the Palestinian cause.

Malley also previously penned a well-circulated New York Review of Books piece largely blaming Israel for the collapse of the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations at Camp David in 2000 when Arafat turned down a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza and eastern sections of Jerusalem and instead returned to the Middle East to launch an intifada, or terrorist campaign, against the Jewish state.

Malley's contentions have been strongly refuted by key participants at Camp David, including President Bill Clinton, then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and primary U.S. envoy to the Middle East Dennis Ross, all of whom squarely blamed Arafat's refusal to make peace for the talks' failure.

[Maverick]

The facts are the facts.

Barack Hussein Obama worked with terrorist and help fund organizations that rejects racist Israels existence

JERUSALEM – The board of a nonprofit organization on which Sen. Barack Obama served as a paid director alongside a confessed domestic terrorist granted funding to a controversial Arab group that mourns the establishment of Israel as a "catastrophe" and supports intense immigration reform, including providing drivers licenses and education to illegal aliens.

The co-founder of the Arab group in question, Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi, also has held a fundraiser for Obama. Khalidi is a harsh critic of Israel, has made statements supportive of Palestinian terror and reportedly has worked on behalf of the Palestine Liberation Organization while it was involved in anti-Western terrorism and was labeled by the State Department as a terror group.

In 2001, the Woods Fund, a Chicago-based nonprofit that describes itself as a group helping the disadvantaged, provided a $40,000 grant to the Arab American Action Network, or AAAN, for which Khalidi's wife, Mona, serves as president. The Fund provided a second grant to the AAAN for $35,000 in 2002.

Obama was a director of the Woods Fund board from 1999 to Dec. 11, 2002, according to the Fund's website. According to tax filings, Obama received compensation of $6,000 per year for his service in 1999 and 2000.

Obama served on the Wood's Fund board alongside William C. Ayers, a member of the Weathermen terrorist group which sought to overthrow of the U.S. government and took responsibility for bombing the U.S. Capitol in 1971.

Ayers, who still serves on the Woods Fund board, contributed $200 to Obama's senatorial campaign fund and has served on panels with Obama at numerous public speaking engagements. Ayers admitted to involvement in the bombings of U.S. governmental buildings in the 1970s. He is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

The $40,000 grant from Obama's Woods Fund to the AAAN constituted about a fifth of the Arab group's reported grants for 2001, according to tax filings obtained by WND. The $35,000 Woods Fund grant in 2002 also constituted about one-fifth of AAAN's reported grants for that year.

The AAAN, headquartered in the heart of Chicago's Palestinian immigrant community, describes itself as working to "empower Chicago-area Arab immigrants and Arab Americans through the combined strategies of community organizing, advocacy, education and social services, leadership development, and forging productive relationships with other communities."

It reportedly has worked on projects with the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, which supports open boarders and education for illegal aliens.

The AAAN in 2005 sent a letter to New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson in which it called a billboard opposing a North Carolina-New Mexico joint initiative to deny driver's licenses to illegal aliens a "bigoted attack on Arabs and Muslims."

Speakers at AAAN dinners and events routinely have taken an anti-Israel line.

The group co-sponsored a Palestinian art exhibit, titled, "The Subject of Palestine," that featured works related to what some Palestinians call the "Nakba" or "catastrophe" of Israel's founding in 1948.

According to the widely discredited Nakba narrative, Jews in 1948 forcibly expelled hundreds of thousands - some Palestinians claim over one million - Arabs from their homes and then took over the territory.

Historically, about 600,000 Arabs fled Israel after surrounding Arab countries warned they would destroy the Jewish state in 1948. Some Arabs also were driven out by Jewish forces while they were trying to push back invading Arab armies. At the same time, over 800,000 Jews were expelled or left Arab countries under threat after Israel was founded.

The theme of AAAN's Nakba art exhibit, held at DePaul University in 2005, was "the compelling and continuing tragedy of Palestinian life ... under [Israeli] occupation ... home demolition ... statelessness ... bereavement ... martyrdom, and ... the heroic struggle for life, for safety, and for freedom."

Another AAAN initiative, titled, "Al Nakba 1948 as experienced by Chicago Palestinians," seeks documents related to the "catastrophe" of Israel's founding.

A post on the AAAN site asked users: "Do you have photos, letters or other memories you could share about Al-Nakba-1948?"

That posting was recently removed. The AAAN website currently states the entire site is under construction.

Pro-PLO advocate held Obama fundraiser, describes Obama as 'sympathetic'

AAAN co-founder Rashid Khalidi was reportedly a director of the official PLO press agency WAFA in Beirut from 1976 to 1982, while the PLO committed scores of anti-Western attacks and was labeled by the U.S. as a terror group. Khalidi's wife, AAAN President Mona Khalidi, was reportedly WAFA's English translator during that period.

Rashid Khalidi at times has denied working directly for the PLO but Palestinian diplomatic sources in Ramallah told WND he indeed worked on behalf of WAFA. Khalidi also advised the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid Conference in 1991.

During documented speeches and public events, Khalidi has called Israel an "apartheid system in creation" and a destructive "racist" state.

He has multiple times expressed support for Palestinian terror, calling suicide bombings response to "Israeli aggression." He dedicated his 1986 book, "Under Siege," to "those who gave their lives ... in defense of the cause of Palestine and independence of Lebanon." Critics assailed the book as excusing Palestinian terrorism.

While the Woods Fund's contribution to Khalidi's AAAN might be perceived as a one-time run in with Obama, the presidential hopeful and Khalidi evidence a deeper relationship.

According to a professor at the University of Chicago who said he has known Obama for 12 years, the Democratic presidential hopeful first befriended Khalidi when the two worked together at the university. The professor spoke on condition of anonymity. Khalidi lectured at the University of Chicago until 2003 while Obama taught law there from 1993 until his election to the Senate in 2004.

Khalidi in 2000 held what was described as a successful fundraiser for Obama's failed bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, a fact not denied by Khalidi.

Speaking in a joint interview with WND and the John Batchelor Show of New York's WABC Radio and Los Angeles' KFI Radio, Khalidi was asked about his 2000 fundraiser for Obama.

"I was just doing my duties as a Chicago resident to help my local politician," Khalidi stated.

Khalidi said he supports Obama for president "because he is the only candidate who has expressed sympathy for the Palestinian cause.

" Khalidi also lauded Obama for "saying he supports talks with Iran. If the U.S. can talk with the Soviet Union during the Cold War, there is no reason it can't talk with the Iranians." Asked about Obama's role funding the AAAN, Khalidi claimed he had "never heard of the Woods Fund until it popped up on a bunch of blogs a few months ago."

He terminated the call when petitioned further about his links with Obama.

Contacted by phone, Mona Khalidi refused to answer WND's questions about the AAAN's involvement with Obama.

Obama's campaign headquarters did not reply to a list of WND questions sent by e-mail to the senator's press office.

Obama, American terrorist in same circles

Obama served on the board with Ayers, who was a Weathermen leader and has written about his involvement with the group's bombings of the New York City Police headquarters in 1970, the Capitol in 1971 and the Pentagon in 1972.

"I don't regret setting bombs. I feel we didn't do enough," Ayers told the New York Times in an interview released on Sept. 11, 2001

"Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon," Ayers wrote in his memoirs, titled "Fugitive Days." He continued with a disclaimer that he didn't personally set the bombs, but his group set the explosives and planned the attack.

A $200 campaign contribution is listed on April 2, 2001 by the "Friends of Barack Obama" campaign fund. The two taught appeared speaking together at several public events, including a 1997 University of Chicago panel entitled, "Should a child ever be called a 'super predator?'" and another panel for the University of Illinois in April 2002, entitled, "Intellectuals: Who Needs Them?"

The charges against Ayers were dropped in 1974 because of prosecutorial misconduct, including illegal .

Ayers is married to another notorious Weathermen terrorist, Bernadine Dohrn, who has also served on panels with Obama. Dohrn was once on the FBI's Top 10 Most Wanted List and was described by J. Edgar Hoover as the "most dangerous woman in America." Ayers and Dohrn raised the son of Weathermen terrorist Kathy Boudin, who was serving a sentence for participating in a 1981 murder and robbery that left 4 people dead.

Obama advisor wants talks with terrorists

The revelations about Obama's relationship with Khalidi follows a recent article quoting Israeli security officials who expressed "concern" about Robert Malley, an adviser to Obama who has advocated negotiations with Hamas and providing international assistance to the terrorist group.

Malley, a principal Obama foreign policy adviser, has penned numerous opinion articles, many of them co-written with a former adviser to the late Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat, petitioning for dialogue with Hamas and blasting Israel for numerous policies he says harm the Palestinian cause.

Malley also previously penned a well-circulated New York Review of Books piece largely blaming Israel for the collapse of the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations at Camp David in 2000 when Arafat turned down a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza and eastern sections of Jerusalem and instead returned to the Middle East to launch an intifada, or terrorist campaign, against the Jewish state.

Malley's contentions have been strongly refuted by key participants at Camp David, including President Bill Clinton, then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and primary U.S. envoy to the Middle East Dennis Ross, all of whom squarely blamed Arafat's refusal to make peace for the talks' failure.

[BobinStamford]

"the satisfaction I will get from knowing that traitors like you will receive their due can hardly be contained. Yes, satisfaction. That's it."

You really are deluded - and not too sharp. Even years of private schooling can't overcome that genetic handicap. In any case, the only ones receiving their due are the mouth-breathers like you. Imagine after a tough day of grilling slabs of meat you come inside, salute the flag, turn on Fox 'News' and there he is - President Obama. You lose patriot. And badly.

[Big Time Repub]

It's about time McCain stops being Mr. Nice Guy. Obama started the attacks and the negative campaign from the get go. McCain tried to be the bigger man - it hasn't worked. Obama needs to be exposed for the thug that he is.

[Big Time Repub]

It's about time McCain stops being Mr. Nice Guy. Obama started the attacks and the negative campaign from the get go. McCain tried to be the bigger man - it hasn't worked. Obama needs to be exposed for the thug that he is.

[Big Time Repub]

It's about time McCain stops being Mr. Nice Guy. Obama started the attacks and the negative campaign from the get go. McCain tried to be the bigger man - it hasn't worked. Obama needs to be exposed for the thug that he is.

[BobInStamford]

Hi,

Please post that again for the 4th time. The line about B. Hussein being a THUG is attracting swing voters in Virginia!

Thanks.

[seekeronos]

"--- As for the destruction of Jim Crow, that came through the work of Martin Luther King, LBJ, RFK with much credit to the Supreme Court under Earl Warren - not a particularly popular figure with today's (sic) Republcians. ---"

Quotes from various and sundry famous Democrats follow on their perceptions of the Black Race:

Blacks "are inferior to the whites in the endowments of both of body and mind."

--Thomas Jefferson, 1787
Co-founder of the Democratic Party (along with Andrew Jackson)
President, 1801-09

"I hold that the present state of civilization, where two races of different origin, and distinguished by color, and other physical differences, as well as intellectual, are brought together, the relation now existing in the slaveholding states between the two, is, instead of an evil, a good--a positive good."

--Sen. John C. Calhoun (D., S.C.), 1837
Vice President, 1825-32
His statue stands in the U.S. Capitol.

If blacks were given the right to vote, that would "place every splay-footed, bandy-shanked, hump-backed, thick-lipped, flat-nosed, woolly-headed, ebon-colored Negro in the country upon an equality with the poor white man."

--Rep. Andrew Johnson, (D., Tenn.), 1844
President, 1865-69

"Resolved, That the Democratic Party will resist all attempts at renewing, in Congress or out of it, the agitation of the slavery question, under whatever shape or color the attempt may be made."

--Platform of the Democratic Party, 1852

Blacks are "a subordinate and inferior class of beings who had been subjugated by the dominant race."

--Chief Justice Roger Taney, Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1856
Appointed Attorney General by Andrew Jackson in 1831
Appointed Secretary of the Treasury by Andrew Jackson in 1833
Appointed to the Supreme Court by Andrew Jackson in 1836

"These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don't move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there'll be no way of stopping them, we'll lose the filibuster and there'll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It'll be Reconstruction all over again."

--Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D., Texas), 1957

"I am a former Kleagle [recruiter] of the Ku Klux Klan in Raleigh County. . . . The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia. It is necessary that the order be promoted immediately and in every state in the union."

--Robert C. Byrd, 1946
Democratic Senator from West Virginia, 1959-present
Senate Majority Leader, 1977-80 and 1987-88
Senate President Pro Tempore, 1989-95, 2001-03, 2007-present
His portrait stands in the U.S. Capitol.

"Mr. President, the crime of lynching . . . is not of sufficient importance to justify this legislation."

--Sen. Claude Pepper (D., Fla.), 1938
Spoken while engaged in a six-hour speech against the antilynching bill

"This passport which you have given me is a symbol to me of the passport which you have given me before. I do not feel that it would be out of place to state to you here on this occasion that I know that without the support of the members of this organization I would not have been called, even by my enemies, the 'Junior Senator from Alabama.' "

--Hugo Black, accepting a life membership in the Ku Klux Klan upon his election to the U.S. Senate as a Democrat from Alabama, 1926
Appointed to the Supreme Court by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937

"Slavery among the whites was an improvement over independence in Africa. The very progress that the blacks have made, when--and only when--brought into contact with the whites, ought to be a sufficient argument in support of white supremacy--it ought to be sufficient to convince even the blacks themselves."

--William Jennings Bryan, 1923
Presidential nominee of the Democratic Party, 1896, 1900 and 1908
Appointed Secretary of State by Woodrow Wilson in 1913
His statue stands in the U.S. Capitol.

"This is a white man's country, and will always remain a white man's country."

--Rep. James F. Byrnes (D., S.C.), 1919
Appointed to the Supreme Court by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1941
Appointed Secretary of State by Harry S. Truman in 1945

"Republicanism means Negro equality, while the Democratic Party means that the white man is supreme. That is why we Southerners are all Democrats."

--Sen. Ben Tillman (D., S.C.), 1906
Chairman, Committee on Naval Affairs, 1913-19

"Everybody likes to go to Geneva. I used to do it for the Law of the Sea conferences and you'd find these potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they'd just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva."

--Sen. Ernest F. Hollings (D., S.C.) 1993
Chairman, Commerce Committee, 1987-95 and 2001-03
Candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, 1984

"I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia [Sen. Robert C. Byrd, a former Ku Klux Klan recruiter] that he would have been a great senator at any moment. . . . He would have been right during the great conflict of civil war in this nation."

--Sen. Christopher Dodd (D., Conn.), 2004
Chairman, Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs
Candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, 2008

And one from our current Vice Presidential Heir-Apparent, the esteemed Senator from Delaware, Joe Biden:

* "You cannot go into a Dunkin' Donuts or a 7-Eleven unless you have a slight Indian accent."

* "My state was a slave state. My state is a border state. My state has the eighth largest black population in the country. My state is anything [but] a Northeastern liberal state."

* "I mean, you got the first mainstream African American [Barack Obama] who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice looking guy."

* "There's less than 1% of the population of Iowa that is African American. There is probably less than 4% or 5% that is, are minorities. What is it in Washington? So look, it goes back to what you start off with, what you're dealing with."

Sen. Joseph Biden Jr., (D., Del.), 2006-07
Chairman, Committee on the Judiciary, 1987-95
Chairman, Committee on Foreign Relations
Candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, 2008

Source: http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110011033

[seekeronos]

"--- Even years of private schooling can't overcome that genetic handicap. ---"

Here Bob reveals his "democratic" racist streak yet again. If he had his way, anyone under a certain IQ (which is an arbitrary number and hardly an objective measure of a person's intelligence) would be savagely murdered, just as the Spartans cast away their young who were deemed unfit, to die of exposure.

Just like your hero Obama wants to let babies who survive the butcher's knife of the abortionist to die in trash cans.

Human life has NO VALUE to communists like Obama or Mao or Stalin: truly if you are in league with these monsters, Bob, and with Margaret Sanger and Hitler and other eugenicist-murderers... you need to do some serious soul searching.

Being black, or Asian, or Latin, or Native American, or white, or whatever, is NOT sin: it is all part of being in the image of the Creator, Whose name is Jesus, the Blessed Redeemer and Saviour of Mankind.

The only thing that is a genetic issue - is sin.

And guess what, boyo? YOU are a sinner in need of Jesus's saving grace, just like everyone else.

Do not think that your lily-white "Aryan" hide will save you from the eternal fires of hell on its own account.

[chris]

Wow, what did I miss? I came over to read about the listless old man's plans for tonight and am greeted with wacky-talk about Obama, dumpsters, fiery hell etc.

Looks like someone has a LOT of free time on his hands. It may not be the best of times to be goofing off so much such. But that's just me.

[templar knight]

seek, have you noticed how liberals just hate private schools? That's because they don't have the power of indoctrination in private schools. You're inner totalitarian man is showing through, chris/Boob. And private schools are growing, and will continue to grow, until creeps like Obama and Ayers and their supporters are thrown into the dustbin of history. Then perhaps public schools will care about education rather than indoctrination.

[Worst President Ever]

Racism is wrong, whether practiced by Republicans or Democrats. And yes, the Democratic party in the South used to be largely racist, But people and parties change. As president, LBJ did more to fight for Civil Rights than any president, but you'd never know that from your cherry-picked quote.

Post-LBJ, Republicans used the Southern Strategy to polarize the electorate and win elections. It was probably smart politics but remains a stain on the Republican party. Ken Mehlman, chairman of the Republican Party at the time, even went so far as to apologize for his party's actions.

Mehlman said: "Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization," Mehlman said at the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. "I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong."

[Big Time Repub]

FOR BOBINSTAMFORD.....not sure why that posted multiple times but here you are again Darlin"

It's about time McCain stops being Mr. Nice Guy. Obama started the attacks and the negative campaign from the get go. McCain tried to be the bigger man - it hasn't worked. Obama needs to be exposed for the thug that he is.

[tk]

Since Obama starting running for president I have been astounded how many stupid Americans there are in this country. Voting for a complete unknown to be president is crazy. This was such a great country but I guess with the dumbing down of our education system we are left with all these idiots. God help us all.