{"id":913,"date":"2008-10-29T19:20:57","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T19:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=913"},"modified":"2008-10-29T19:20:57","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T19:20:57","slug":"why-palin-is-lame-pt-i-lost-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=913","title":{"rendered":"Why The McCain Campaign Is Lame,  pt. I lost count"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Why%20The%20McCain%20Campaign%20Is%20Lame%2C%20%20pt.%20I%20lost%20count\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>OK, when your campaign demands that the press <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-video29-2008oct29,0,5458024.story\">release a video from 2003<\/a> of Obama praising Palistinian activist and scholar Rashid Khalidi, a video that you&#8217;re going to use as yet another guilt by association attack against Obama, you should AT LEAST learn to <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/15614\/palin-elaborates-on-joes-resume\">pronounce the guys name<\/a> Wright&#8230; er, I mean right.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Palin\u2019s attack on Khalidi has been eagerly anticipated by GOP faithful for sometime. The National Review, in particular, has practically begged for the campaign to make an issue of \u201cthe top apologist for terrorists\u201d \u2014 i.e., former spokesman for the PLO \u2014 who is another (distant) associate of Sen. Barack Obama\u2019s. Indeed, when Palin first mentioned him, mangling his name a bit in the process, several audience members shouted good-natured corrections.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It would also be a good idea if you hadn&#8217;t, in the past, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2008\/10\/28\/mccain-funded-work-of-pal_n_138606.html\">given money to this guy<\/a> and his &#8220;terrorist&#8221; organizations.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>During the 1990s, while he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iri.org\/newsarchive\/2007\/2007-10-22-News-AP-McCain.asp\">served as chairman<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>A 1998 tax filing for the McCain-led group shows a $448,873 grant to Khalidi&#8217;s Center for Palestine Research and Studies for work in the West Bank. (See grant number 5180, &#8220;West Bank: CPRS&#8221; on page 14 of <a href=\"http:\/\/big.assets.huffingtonpost.com\/IRIForm9901998.pdf\">this PDF<\/a>.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ooops.<\/p>\n<p>If the McCain camp keeps this kind of behaivour up, I might have to vote for Obama just to spite them. (JK)<\/p>\n<p>But seriously, the LA Times should release the video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Why%20The%20McCain%20Campaign%20Is%20Lame%2C%20%20pt.%20I%20lost%20count\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>OK, when your campaign demands that the press release a video from 2003 of Obama praising Palistinian activist and scholar Rashid Khalidi, a video that you&#8217;re going to use as yet another guilt by association attack against Obama, you should AT LEAST learn to pronounce the guys name Wright&#8230; er, I mean right. Palin\u2019s attack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}