Obama '08?

In regards to Khalidi, however, the guilt-by-association game burns John McCain as well.

During the 1990s, while he served as chairman of the International Republican Institute (IRI), McCain distributed several grants to the Palestinian research center co-founded by Khalidi, including one worth half a million dollars.

A 1998 tax filing for the McCain-led group shows a $448,873 grant to Khalidi's Center for Palestine Research and Studies for work in the West Bank. (See grant number 5180, "West Bank: CPRS" on page 14 of this PDF.)

The relationship extends back as far as 1993, when John McCain joined IRI as chairman in January. Foreign Affairs noted in September of that year that IRI had helped fund several extensive studies in Palestine run by Khalidi's group, including over 30 public opinion polls and a study of "sociopolitical attitudes."

Of course, there's seemingly nothing objectionable with McCain's organization helping a Palestinian group conduct research in the West Bank or Gaza. But it does suggest that McCain could have some of his own explaining to do as he tries to make hay out of Khalidi's ties to Obama.

So your latest bout with dementia revolves around the possibility there could be damning evidence of something you have no idea about, on a tape neither you nor anyone who shares your nutty theory have seen?

Do you never even stop to consider that maybe you’re being played for a fool by those feeding your paranoia with utter nonsense? You do realize, that tape may also contain a confession from the other shooter, who was standing on that grassy knoll in Dallas on that fateful day in 63… not to mention… hold on to your hat now: What if it contains unequivocal proof that Martians have already taken control of the Democratic Party, and Obama’s election is just another step towards taking over the entire world!?

There may one day be a maintenance drug to help you with that NDD or CTHAFHITG.

Okay, fine, ob, play the ostrich, now Obama is booting reporters he doesn't like.

Friday, October 31, 2008
McCain's Cousin Endorses Obama
Vaulx Boles says “straight talking, commonsense John McCain” is “long gone.”

(READING, PA)"John McCain’s cousin, Adam Vaulx Boles, today released the following statement:

I’m working with Keystone Progress in the hope that you will forward this email to any friends, family or co-workers who may still be undecided about who to vote for President.

Recently, my father gave me an envelope full of press clippings, which detail the years my cousin, then-Lt. Cmdr. John S. McCain, was imprisoned in North Vietnam. John and I are related through our grandmothers. Katherine Vaulx McCain and Huetta Vaulx Boles, both of Fayetteville, Arkansas, were sisters.

When John threw his hat in the ring in 2000, my father and I were both very proud and encouraged, and not just because he's our relative. This was the first politician in a long time that, on a national stage, was saying things like, "Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer-reaches of American politics."

Jump ahead to the campaign Sen. McCain is currently running. Clearly, a lot can change in eight years.

Where is the straight-talking, commonsense John McCain of 2000? I'm afraid he is long gone, replaced by a desperate version of himself who seems to contradict nearly everything he once stood for. What becomes apparent in his ideological about-face is just how out of touch my cousin John really is with America's working families. A part of me is made very sad to write this email. As I've said, my family has followed John's life and career with no absence of pride. But like many Americans of good conscience, my father and I can no longer consider voting for our own cousin.

Instead, we will be voting for the hope and real change embodied by Barack Obama this Election Day.

Sincerely,
Adam Vaulx Boles

and is there a toilet I can clean ?