Barack Obama dining with Edward Said - PHOTO

[bidenista]

Full article which features photo (and criticizes Obama for "learning to love Israel") here:

http://www.electronicintifada.net/v2/article6619.shtml

[bidenista]

1. kick

:kick:

[KoKo]

2. Fancy...Michelle might be trying to get donations to the Chicago Hospitals from him though.

She makes over $200.000 a year as a PR Person for the Chicago Hospital Association and I don't see ANYTHING wrong with this. It was just trying to get donations.

After all ..Wall St. Banks are getting donations from "Sovereign Wealth Funds" to bail them out.

:shrug:

[bidenista]

3. the repubs will go ape with this

And use it to alienate Jewish Dems. We need a statement from Camp Obama disassociating himself from Said.

[Cant trust em]

anti-zionist Dems might be into it

I've never been to a protest rally without seeing an anti-Israel, Pro-Palestine something.

[Proud2BAmurkin]

14. already are.

[jackstraw45]

4. See the TABLE NUMBER? Ever been to an EVENT with ASSIGNED TABLES?

Sitting at the same assigned table is hardly "dining" with someone.

[bidenista]

5. look, i believe in prevention

Better that Camp Obama address this now than waiting - if he's nominated - for the Repubs to put him through the smear machine.

[lurky]

6. What?!? He spoke to him?!?

He didn't stab him in the eye with his salad fork!?! What a monster!!!















:sarcasm: (for the tone deaf)

[THUNDER HANDS]

7. who is Edward Said?

and why should I care?

[KoKo]

8. Somebody that get's some DU'ers worked up, obviously.

:shrug:

[bidenista]

9. palestinian academic

Brilliant man, but some views which could be considered extreme. The Repubs would probably call him a "terrah-enabler".

[tishaLA]

10. He was a professor at Columbia

in English and Comparative Literature. He wrote, most famously, "Orientalism" and "Culture and Imperialism." He was a big supporter of Palestinian rights.

[blm]

11. How many times did Clintons dine with BCCI figure Jackson Stephens?

I'm sure SOME of you must know.

[cali]

12. Oh for fook's sake

now we're demonizing Obama because he talked to Said at a dinner? He was an academic, a brilliant man and a great friend of Daniel Barenboim- an Israel Jew as well as one of the world's greatest musicians.

This is such a non-issue, and such disgusting shit stirring. It makes me sick.

[bidenista]

13. who's demonizing?

I'm just providing actual background to the moronic thread about Said and the Nation of Islam.

[KoKo]

15. I know....if you lay down with dogs...you don't get fleas.........never...

never. Or..."A person is known by the company one keeps." That one doesn't work anymore, either.

How about: "Great Minds Think Alike!" I think that you will like that one Cali.

[cali]

16. What's your problem with Said? n/t