Khalidi is longtime a friend of Barack Obama and Michelle Obama. In the 1990s, Obama and his wife were regular dinner guests at Khalidi"s Chicago home. During the 2000 election cycle, Mr. and Mrs. Khalidi organized a fundraiser for Barack Obama"s unsuccessful congressional bid. In 2001 and again in 2002, the Woods Fund of Chicago, while Mr. Obama served on its board, made grants totaling $75,000 to Khalidi"s Arab American Action Network. In 2003 Obama would attend a farewell party in Khalidi"s honor when the latter was leaving the University of Chicago to embark on his new position at Columbia.

In a 2008 interview, Khalidi praised Obama effusively, stating that, if elected President, Obama would be more understanding of the Palestinian experience than other politicians. "He has family literally all over the world," Khalidi noted. "I feel a kindred spirit from that." 

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Да допуснем че Халиди е терорист (единствения аргумент за това е че бил говорител на ООП е ЛЪЖА, виж по-долу). Какъв тогава е Маккейн, давал пари на организацията на Халиди? Спонсор на терористична организация.
Nor was Khalidi ever a spokesman for the PLO, though that was reported in an erroneous column by the New York Times’s Tom Friedman in 1982.

McCarthy states that Khalidi “founded” the Arab American Action Network (AAAN). In fact, he neither founded it nor has anything to do with it. But AAAN is not, as McCarthy suggests, a political organization. It is a social-services organization, largely funded by the state of Illinois and private foundations, that provides support for English-language training, citizenship classes, after-school and summer programs for schoolchildren, women’s shelters, and child care among Chicago’s sizable Arab community (and for others on the city’s impoverished South Side).

When Barack Obama was a lecturer at the University of Chicago law school, he became friendly with Khalidi, who was then a professor at the same university. Obama and his wife were regular dinner guests at Khalidi’s Hyde Park home.

In 1995 Khalidi and his wife had founded the Arab American Action Network (AAAN), noted for its contention that Arab Americans face widespread discrimination in the United States, and for its view—a view shared by Khalidi himself—that Israel’s creation in 1948 was a “catastrophe” for Arab people.

During the 2000 election cycle, Mr. and Mrs. Khalidi organized a fundraiser for Barack Obama’s unsuccessful congressional bid. In 2001 and again in 2002, the Woods Fund of Chicago, while Mr. Obama served on its board, made grants totaling $75,000 to Khalidi’s AAAN.

In 2003 Obama attended a farewell party in Khalidi’s honor when the latter was leaving the University of Chicago to embark on his new position at Columbia. At this event, Obama paid public tribute to Khalidi as someone whose insights had been “consistent reminders to me of my own blind spots and my own biases…. It’s for that reason that I’m hoping that, for many years to come, we continue that conversation—a conversation that is necessary not just around Mona and Rashid’s dinner table,” but around “this entire world.” Khalidi then returned the favor, telling the largely pro-Palestinian attendees that Obama deserved their help in winning a U.S. Senate seat, stating, “You will not have a better senator under any circumstances.”

In a 2008 interview, Khalidi praised Obama effusively, stating that, if elected President, Obama would be more understanding of the Palestinian experience than other politicians.


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Tull,

Пълен крах за републиканците.
Загуба на мнозинството в Сената, загуба на мнозинството в Конгреса :-)
Пълен разгром на Макейн. И като че ли историята се повтаря. Развитите северни и западни щати с интелигентно население и силна икономика победиха някогашните робовладелци на юг. Логично беше.

Наздраве, Тул!

Напротив, изследванията показват, че най-бедните и изпаднали слове на омериканското общество са гласували за Обама. И, разбира се, традиционно ляво насторените циркаджии от Холивуд. Истинските големи интелектуалци на Щатите са гласували за Маккейн.

Ако под големи интелектуалци имаш предвид изкуфелите антикомунисти от Рейгъново време, тогава съм съгласен. Най-изпадналите слоеве са разни нюборн християни и други месиянски отрепки от южните и среднозападните щати, които са преторианската гвардия на републиканците.
Истинските интелектуалци бяха моторът на промяната и доведоха Обама.

Левите интелектуалци бяха моторът на т.нар. от теб промяна. Бъркаш интелектуалец с ляв интелектуалец. Впрочем за последните Пол Джонсън е направил прекрасни портрети. В Щатите е пълно с леви интелектуалци марксисти, за които Бог е мръсна дума. Та така де...
Относно Обама. Кой е всъщност той - шизофренично раздвоен човек - дори и по отношение на собствената си религия. Смятам, че беше наложен с нечувани пари, медийни публикации и холивудски мурафети. Мисля, че след идването на Барак, Америка на я чака нищо хубаво. А това означава и света.