I guess won't know until April... that is if she doesn't delay it further...
Slainte,
Rob Harrington
----- Original Message ----
From: Tim Dickson <tadviv@yahoo.com>
Shows who Bill takes care of...
--- T Bill <newbigtech@yahoo.com> wrote:
> What about Bill working for the Sheik of Dubai,
> Excuse me Partnering with the Sheik? This is the
> same Sheik who called for Israels destruction....
> And Hillary's Judgement ... Would that be
> affected , since she whispered in Bill's ear about
> policy...
> When they shared a bed.
>
> nancy m gibson <nmgibson@JUNO.COM> wrote:
>
> Does Obama talk out of both sides of his
> mouth?---Nan
>
> IT IS NOT WORTH WHILE TO GO AROUND
> THE WORLD TO COUNT THE CATS IN
> ZANZIBAR.
> Henry David Thoreau
> JERUSALEM – Democratic presidential frontrunner
> Sen. Barack Obama served as a paid director on the
> board of a nonprofit organization that granted
> funding to a controversial Arab group that mourns
> the establishment of Israel as a "catastrophe."
> (Obama has also reportedly spoken at fundraisers for
> Palestinians living in what the United Nations terms
> refugee camps.)
> The co-founder of the Arab group, Columbia
> University professor Rashid Khalidi, is a harsh
> critic of Israel who reportedly worked on behalf of
> the Palestine Liberation Organization when it was
> labeled a terror group by the State Department.
> Khalidi held a fundraiser in 2000 for Obama's
> failed bid for a seat in the U.S. House of
> Representatives.
> 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, at which Khalidi's
> wife, Mona, serves as president. The Fund provided a
> second grant to 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 2000.
> The $40,000 grant from the Woods Fund to AAAN
> constituted about a fifth of the group's reported
> grants for 2001, also according to tax filings. The
> $35,000 Woods Fund grant in 2002 made up about
> one-fifth of AAAN's reported grants for that year as
> well.
> Headquartered in the heart of Chicago's
> Palestinian immigrant community, AAAN describes
> itself as working to "empower Chicago-area Arab
> immigrants and Arab Americans through the combined
> strategies of community organizing, advocacy,
> education and social services, leadership
> development, and forging productive relationships
> with other communities."
> 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
> Palestinians call the "nakba" or "catastrophe" of
> Israel's founding in 1948.
> The theme of AAAN's Nakba art exhibit, held at
> DePaul University in 2005, was "the compelling and
> continuing tragedy of Palestinian life ... under
> [Israeli] occupation ... home demolition ...
> statelessness ... bereavement ... martyrdom, and ...
> the heroic struggle for life, for safety, and for
> freedom."
> Another AAAN initiative, "Al Nakba 1948 As
> Experienced by Chicago Palestinians," seeks
> documents related to the "catastrophe" of Israel's
> founding.
> Although AAAN co-founder Rashid Khalidi has at
> times denied working directly for the PLO, he
> reportedly served as director of the official PLO
> press agency WAFA in Beirut from 1976 to 1982, a
> period during which the PLO committed scores of
> anti-Western attacks and was labeled by the U.S. as
> a terror group. Khalidi's wife, Mona Khalidi,
> reportedly was WAFA's English translator during that
> period.
> Khalidi also advised the Palestinian delegation to
> the Madrid Conference in 1991. During documented
> speeches and public events, Khalidi has called
> Israel an "apartheid system in creation" and a
> "racist" state. Critics have accused him of excusing
> Palestinian terrorism, a charge he denies.
> He dedicated his 1986 book, Under Siege, to "those
> who gave their lives ... in defense of the cause of
> Palestine and independence of Lebanon."
> While the Woods Fund's contribution to Khalidi's
> AAAN might be perceived as a one-time contact with
> Obama, there is evidence of a deeper relationship
> between the presidential hopeful and Khalidi.
> According to a professor at the University of
> Chicago who said he has known Obama for 12 years,
> the senator first befriended Khalidi when the two
> worked together at the university. The professor
> spoke on condition of anonymity. Khalidi lectured at
> the University of Chicago until 2003; Obama taught
> law there from 1993 until his election to the Senate
> in 2004.
> Asked during a radio interview with this reporter
> on WABC's John Batchelor program about his 2000
> fundraiser for Obama, Khalidi said he "was just
> doing my duties as a Chicago resident to help my
> local politician."
> Khalidi said he supports Obama for president
> "because he is the only candidate who has expressed
> sympathy for the Palestinian cause."
> Khalidi also lauded Obama for "saying he supports
> talks with Iran. If the U.S. can talk with the
> Soviet Union during the Cold War, there is no reason
> it can't talk with the Iranians."
> Concerning Obama's role in funding AAAN, Khalidi
> claimed he "never heard of the Woods Fund until it
> popped up on a bunch of blogs a few months ago." He
> terminated the interview when pressed further about
> his links with Obama.
> Contacted by phone, Mona Khalidi refused to answer
> questions about AAAN's involvement with Obama.
> The Obama campaign did not reply to a list of
> questions sent by e-mail to the senator's press
> office.
> In addition to questions about his relationship
> with Khalidi, Obama may face increased scrutiny over
> his ties to William C. Ayers, a member of the
> Weather Underground terrorist group that sought to
> overthrow the U.S. government and took
> responsibility for a string of bombings in the early
> 1970's.
> Obama served on the Woods Fund board alongside
> Ayers (who is still on the board). Ayers, a
> professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago,
> has written about his involvement with the Weather
> Underground's bombing of U.S. governmental buildings
> including the Capitol in 1971 and the Pentagon in
> 1972.
> Although charges against him were dropped in 1974
> due to prosecutorial misconduct, Ayers told a
> newspaper reporter several years ago that he had no
> second thoughts about his violent past. "I don't
> regret setting bombs. I feel we didn't do enough,"
> Ayers told The New York Times in an interview
> published, ironically, on Sept. 11, 2001.
> In his memoir, Fugitive Days, Ayers wrote:
> "Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed
> the Pentagon" – though he continued with a
> disclaimer that he didn't personally set the bombs
> but his group placed the explosives and planned the
> attack.
> Besides serving with Obama on the board of the
> Woods Fund, Ayers contributed $200 to Obama's
> senatorial campaign fund and has served on panels
> with Obama at several public speaking engagements.
>
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