HappySqurriel said:
At this point in time Barack Obama having associations with radicals is not really news ... What makes this story more interesting is that it appears that the LA Times are trying to cover it up.
I do wonder what would happen if this story becomes (much) more widespread. I personally expect that the "Cover Up" would make a lot of people assume the worst about it, and as a result something that was innocent could become a major issue in their mind.
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what are you kidding me?
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/29/mccain-pushes-obama-connection-to-khalidi/
The paper was the first to report on the relationship between Obama and Khalidi in an April 2008 story — titled “Allies of Palestinians see a friend in Barack Obama” — about the Illinois senator’s ties with the Palestinian and Jewish communities in Chicago and detailed the 2003 event, which was a farewell dinner for Khalidi, who was leaving Chicago to take a job in New York.
"The Los Angeles Times did not publish the videotape because it was provided to us by a confidential source who did so on the condition that we not release it," said the newspaper's editor, Russ Stanton.
The LA times were the first to publish the news about it and nobody cared. Yet, somehow at the end of the campaign, McCain raises it up now. Not to mention this:
"And while McCain might not have known Khalidi personally, he has ties to the Palestinian as well. During the 1990s, while McCain served as chairman of the International Republican Institute, the group gave grant money to the Palestinian research center co-founded by Khalidi."
Also your characterization of him as a radical is an opinion. A Palestinian that opposes the policy's of Israel? Shocker.