tzada2:45PMMar 17th 2008

Psssssssssst You must not have heard but Senator McCain is in Iraq
While you wait for Senator McCain digest this....

Obama worked with terrorist
Senator helped fund organization that rejects 'racist' Israel's existence


Posted: February 24, 2008
5:44 pm Eastern
By Aaron Klein
© 2008 WorldNetDaily
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.
n 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."

dave3:12PMMar 17th 2008

"Bad Judgment" John continued his theme with proposals to extend the military existence in Iraq, trying to settle their civil war; and with the Bush economic program that has SUB-PRIMED our country with another three trillion in debt. Yes, he's a patriot and the country owes him a debt of gratitude...but his judgment is SO bad we can't afford him as President.

tzada3:25PMMar 17th 2008

dave3:12PMMar 17th 2008

Really? Then read this....

The Belmont Club
History and History in the Making
Sunday, February 17, 2008

From the 5th Annual U.S.-Islamic World Forum


From the 5th Annual U.S.-Islamic World Forum

Tamara Cofman Wittes, who's attending the annual 5th Annual U.S.-Islamic World Forum notices that anti-US rhetoric is way down this year. Instead of fire-breathing anti-American keynote speakers, "the opening keynote was instead delivered by President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, who argued that Muslims in Afghanistan and Bosnia were right to expect and accept American military intervention to relieve their suffering, and America was just in coming to their aid."
The reason for the change in tone has been a grudging respect for successes in American foreign policy and Washington's new focus on Iran.

Angie3:51PMMar 17th 2008

And you, the writer, might be who? Never heard of you.

Angie3:52PMMar 17th 2008

And just who might you be, writer? Never heard of you.

Denise Williams4:24PMMar 17th 2008

Matt, are there any hotfixes or patches available before the releases? :)

Splash7:54PMMar 17th 2008

No matter who becomes president - McCain, who has pledged to stay in Iraq until the job is done or either dem who have pledged to begin withdrawal - we are in Iraq to stay. Once the new prez is briefed they will realize that moving troops out just to move them back in would be an even more expensive and therefore unnecessary exercise in stupidity.

Bush, whether you like him or not, has correctly identified the real enemy, Radical Islam and Iran is the core of that danger. Look closely at a map and you see We have 140,000 troops on one side (in the flat desert where more troops are required) and we have 40,000 troops on the other Iranian border (in the mountains where less troops are necessary).

The only reasons Iranian leadership is not quaking more in their boots is because they remember the inept weakness and inability to act demonstrated so well by our Israeli-hating peanut farming pseudo-president Jimmy Carter coupled with the anti-war sentiment they hear spewing from the mouths of presidential wannabes. Iran is confident in the weakness of America. That confidence, hopefully, will turn out to be Iran's weakness. Weather or not we will exploit it is another issue.

George Bush has put us one step closer to exploiting that spanking that confidence. Iran almost provoked it when they rushed our ships with a speedboat; that is either confidence or stupidity and probably a little of both.

Obama says we took our sights off Afghanistan, but the Taliban is weak; the new Afghan government handles them almost completely on their own (another reason to have less troops there). Kerry said we should have gone more heavily after Osama instead of going into Iraq even though he was a real cheerleader for war at the time.

Any and all of those who are against us being in Iraq just don't understand military strategy. We are not there to stop Saddam, although we did. We are not there to find WMDs although that would have been helpful. We are not even there for oil or we would be pumping those fields for ourselves and bathing in crude as $10/barrel. We are there, poised and ready should the time arise to pierce the heart of true instability in the world - Iran.

We are right where we need to be and one day history will look back and see George Bush, be it by design or by accident, as a true military genius. So he's no George Washington or Andrew Jackson, but he knows the enemy enough to put us in a position to strike.

So if McCain turns out to have adopted some of Bush's war policies (which in reality were adopted by Bush from McCain) then more power to him. Either way, we are in Iraq for a good long time and no president, republican or democrat will pull us out any time soon.

Cateyespretty8:34PMMar 17th 2008

THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY HAVE SCREWED THIS ELECTION UP SO BAD, THAT NO ONE KNOWS WHICH WAY TO TURN ANYMORE.SENATOR McCAIN IS IN IRAQ, AS WE SPEAK, AND SAID THAT THE SURGE IS DEFINITELY WORKING.BUT THAT WE STILL NEED TO LEAVE SOME BRIGADES,BECAUSE OF AL-QUEDA.THE STRADEGY OF THE WAR,IS SUCEEDING AND THAT THERE HAS BEEN PROGRESS MADE ON THE GROUND.CLINTON IS SAYING THAT IF SHE BECOMES PRESIDENT THAT SHE WILL REMOVE THE TROOPS WITHIN 6 MONTHS AND OBAMA SAID HE WOULD REMOVE THEM WITHIN A YEAR.THIS WOULD BE DANGEROUS TO OUR COUNTRY TO REMOVE THE TROOPS SO QUICKLY.THIS IS SENATOR McCAIN'S 8TH TRIP TO IRAQ.AND HE SUPPOSE TO BE GOING TO ISREAL AND FRANCE NEXT.JOHN McCAIN IS WORKING ON BECOMING OUR NEXT PRESIDENT ALREADY.HE IS NOT PLAYING GAMES LIKE THE DEMS.WE NEED SOMEONE WHO HAS THE EXPIERENCE IN NATIONAL SECURITY AND FOREIGN POLICY .FROM DAY ONE "SENATOR McCAIN" IS THE ONLY CANDIDATE RUNNING WHO HAS ENOUGH EXPIERENCE TO BECOME OUR NEXT COMMANDER AND CHIEF, AND TO KEEP OUR COUNTRY SAFE.VOTE McCAIN."08 REFORM

Cateyespretty8:35PMMar 17th 2008

THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY HAVE SCREWED THIS ELECTION UP SO BAD, THAT NO ONE KNOWS WHICH WAY TO TURN ANYMORE.SENATOR McCAIN IS IN IRAQ, AS WE SPEAK, AND SAID THAT THE SURGE IS DEFINITELY WORKING.BUT THAT WE STILL NEED TO LEAVE SOME BRIGADES,BECAUSE OF AL-QUEDA.THE STRADEGY OF THE WAR,IS SUCEEDING AND THAT THERE HAS BEEN PROGRESS MADE ON THE GROUND.CLINTON IS SAYING THAT IF SHE BECOMES PRESIDENT THAT SHE WILL REMOVE THE TROOPS WITHIN 6 MONTHS AND OBAMA SAID HE WOULD REMOVE THEM WITHIN A YEAR.THIS WOULD BE DANGEROUS TO OUR COUNTRY TO REMOVE THE TROOPS SO QUICKLY.THIS IS SENATOR McCAIN'S 8TH TRIP TO IRAQ.AND HE SUPPOSE TO BE GOING TO ISREAL AND FRANCE NEXT.JOHN McCAIN IS WORKING ON BECOMING OUR NEXT PRESIDENT ALREADY.HE IS NOT PLAYING GAMES LIKE THE DEMS.WE NEED SOMEONE WHO HAS THE EXPIERENCE IN NATIONAL SECURITY AND FOREIGN POLICY .FROM DAY ONE "SENATOR McCAIN" IS THE ONLY CANDIDATE RUNNING WHO HAS ENOUGH EXPIERENCE TO BECOME OUR NEXT COMMANDER AND CHIEF, AND TO KEEP OUR COUNTRY SAFE.VOTE McCAIN.08

grogers26512:07AMMar 18th 2008

More of the same with John McCain!

Dr. Max Chartrand1:10PMMar 18th 2008

When all the empty rhetoric and idle talk is stripped away from the current candidates for President, John McCain stands by far as the best choice. Furthermore, we are in hopes that he picks Mitt Romney as his running mate. The two of them would turn the economy around, save the U.S. dollar and millions of U.S. jobs, and keep Americans safe at home and abroad. Let's push for a McCain/Romney 2008 Ticket! -- Dr. Max Chartrand

morningcry4202:40PMMar 18th 2008

It doesn't matter what McCain does. People are so fed up with republicans after Bush that he stands a snowballs chance in hell. This is unfortunate but realistic. And as a result, i really hope Obama wins if only because he had to do more than be married to the president to get where he is today.

Roger Allison3:54PMMar 18th 2008

I believe the columnist is a geek trying to be relevant in political discussions. Dumbest thing I have ever seen written. He did not say it, but, McCain would have been a better Republican nominee for President in 2000. The eight additional years of experience (and 24 total years) as a moderate Senator is 5 (and 8x) more years than Obama has of total Senatorial experience. Change is undefined by all parties, yet reform is what our nation needs. The only candidate with the will and conviction to reform our nation is McCain. Please reference the NY Times articles chronicling Obama's "fold like a cheap suit" when serving on a bipartisan committee with McCain to resolve immigration. Obama showed no will or conviction for change. Leadership and the ability to define, and act upon, what is right - not what is partisan - defines McCain's experience. Many Independents will vote McCain as the lowest risk candidate and his ability to unite. That will end up being the differentiating factor for president.

veronica5:18PMMar 19th 2008

People fear change..This country needs to release their bias and accept change. People are people, and no matter what racial orgin one may be, actions speaks louder than words. It is time for the democratics to regard the white house.