John McCain and Sarah Palin sharply criticized the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday for refusing to make public a video of a 2003 event at which Barack Obama paid tribute to a Palestinian scholar.The Republican presidential and vice presidential nominees accused the newspaper of trying to protect their Democratic rival in the final days before Tuesday's election.
Editors at The Times and the reporter who wrote an article in April about Obama's connection to the Palestinian scholar, Rashid Khalidi, said they were ethically bound to abide by a promise to a confidential source not to share the video.McCain's spokesman had raised the issue of the video a day earlier, saying it might confirm Obama's ties to "radicals" and show that, as a candidate for the U.S. Senate, he condoned anti-Israel rhetoric at a party for Khalidi, a friend.The Republicans increased the pressure Wednesday, when both McCain and his running mate took up the call for The Times to release the video.
The controversy stems from an article by Times staff writer Peter Wallsten that the newspaper published on April 10, exploring Obama's relationships with Palestinian Americans and Jews in Chicago. The article explained how Obama had managed to be held in high esteem by both groups. It described a party in 2003 for Khalidi, a renowned scholar on the Palestinians who in the 1970s had acted as a spokesman for Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization.
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5 comments:
Why don't they follow Obama's garbage man around, maybe he did something crazy at one point? This is getting ridiculous, the Obama camp is not stooping to all the relations Gramps has had over the many many years. Enough.
Obama was a board memeber of Woods Fund in 1999-2002. He attended members to raise money and dinners for the success. Yes Khalidi was a supporting and yes all the members met him. Oh by the way Ayres was a member of the board and still is a member of the board.
Now John McCain worked with Khalidi from 1990-1998 raising money for the Woods Fund. John did real well and got close to a million dollars to help this good charity.
McCain's staff didn't read his background yet.
Chicago Native:
There are 5 days left in this election. Notice that McCain camp is spending too much time trying to tie Obama with the college professor at Columbia. This has to do with tying this back to Ayers. Again, waste of time. Most folks are too focus on economy. And notice that Exxon Mobil made a profit this quarter in a bad economy. As Obama said, McCain is there to distract the people for votes.
Chicago Native:
There are 5 days left in this election. Notice that McCain camp is spending too much time trying to tie Obama with the college professor at Columbia. This has to do with tying this back to Ayers. Again, waste of time. Most folks are too focus on economy. And notice that Exxon Mobil made a profit this quarter in a bad economy. As Obama said, McCain is there to distract the people for votes.
Yes, and the tax calculator ad that is running on TV, and I see you have the widget is the most supportive of Obama.
McCain is for the few and very rich in this country, without the middle class this country will not be.
What the GOP does not get is the middle class, working class is what got this country where it was (was, because the last 8 years have tryed to undo all of it)
McCain keeps saying he wants to share the wealth, what McCain needs to understand is Obama wants to share the tax burden.
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