An advisor to Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama [Robert Malley] has left the campaign after a British newspaper asked him about meetings with the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, media reports said Friday.[…]
"My job with the International Crisis Group is to meet with all sorts of savory and unsavory people and report on what they say. I've never denied whom I meet with; that's what I do."
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Obama and McCain traded barbs Thursday in a heated exchange over McCain's labeling of the Democrat as the favorite candidate of the Islamist movement which controls the Gaza Strip and refuses to recognize the existence of Israel.
Obama called McCain's tactic a "smear" that was "unfortunate, particularly since my policy toward Hamas has been no different than his."
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In a conversation with conservative bloggers last month, McCain said it was "very clear who Hamas wants to be the next president," adding: "If Senator Obama is favored by Hamas I think people can make judgments accordingly."
Recent polls suggest one in seven Americans believes Obama is a Muslim, even though he was baptized more than 20 years ago and attends a Christian church.
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives. --Mark Twain
The man picked by the John McCain campaign to run the 2008 Republican National Convention resigned Saturday after a report that his lobbying firm used to represent the military regime in Myanmar.
You know the one…the one that won’t let aid in to the storm-devastated people. The one handling the disaster worse than the Bush Administration handled Katrina.
I have no personal knowledge of whether John or Cindy McCain voted for George W. Bush in the 2000 election. However, now that that has been called into question by Arianna Huffington (who says no) and Huffington's truthfulness has in turn been questioned by the McCain campaign (although not yet by the McCains), I can offer the following anecdote as admissible hearsay shedding a little light on the subject:Over the Fourth of July weekend of 1999, I had the good fortune to accompany my then fiancée (and now happily my wife) to the McCain vacation home in Sedona where she was interviewing them for a Home and Garden Television show.
Always the goods hosts, the McCains also invited us to spend the day with them, including for barbeque, a favorite of John's. And as McCain flipped burgers, I could not help but ask his views about then candidate George W. Bush.
"He's as dumb as a stump," McCain offered.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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