| Submit your comments on this article |
| Home Front: Politix |
| Obama Worked with Terrorist, Expert Says |
| 2008-02-26 |
| Senator helped fund organization that rejects 'racist' Israel's existence 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, according to Aaron Klein, Middle East correspondent for WND.com. 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 2001. 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 AAAN in 2005 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. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #11 Dead on Spook |
| Posted by: Icerigger 2008-02-26 17:10 |
| #10 I treat this information as true until he proves it wrong, thats the new rules of politics as applied to conservatives and moderates. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-02-26 13:35 |
| #9 Know him by the company he keeps. Weathermen domestic terrorists. Muslim radicals. Separatist racist Blacks. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-02-26 13:19 |
| #8 I treat this "Information" as invented by Hillary or her camp, until proved otherwise. It's entirely too conveniently timed now that Shrillary is losing the nomination. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2008-02-26 12:47 |
| #7 Well, let's all give Hillary a big round of thanks. Since the people voting for Obama are aren't at all interested in his issues - but only his charisma, he will still get the nomination but this will all be very useful in the national election :-) And Rupert - while I would want to see some additional confirmation before I took it to heart, this information sounds very specific. Artificial dirt usually is vague. |
| Posted by: Crease Poodle1618 2008-02-26 11:31 |
| #6 So which one do they consider the terrorist, Rashid Khalidi or Billy Ayers? And is "college professor" the next step up from "terrorist"? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-02-26 11:09 |
| #5 Sounds like some artificial dirt to me. |
| Posted by: Rupert Spusosing6165 2008-02-26 10:34 |
| #4 lena, as I said before - Pol Pot gave people 'Change'. Stalin gave people 'Change'. Not all change is good - being infected with a desease is 'change', but not good. Becoming a Dhiminni is 'change', but not for the good. People of Obama political stripe have a habit of introducing the 'bad' kind of change. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2008-02-26 10:25 |
| #3 Obama is starting to scare me. His cult of personality is covering up some really ugly facts and the MSM is giving him a pass. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2008-02-26 10:05 |
| #2 Hmmmmm. Mebbe this is why Muzz do not consider him apostate. He isn't. Just under heavy cover. |
| Posted by: Woozle Elmeter 2907 2008-02-26 09:54 |
| #1 This is the guy who wants CHANGE... The change will be the "certain people" (Jews, some Americans) is ok. if they are killed, maybe we supposed to feel good about it. Is this the CHANGE WE WANT? |
| Posted by: lena 2008-02-26 09:32 |