McCain-chaired IRI funded the organization Khalidi founded for $448,873!

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Please forward this fact to any rightie you hear in the media spewing some bad ass relationship between Obama and Khalidi. 5 days out, all the pukes have left is to make up BS and toss it at the wall - hoping an idiot or two in the electorate will buy it.

They have already thrown the kitchen sink, now all they have left is bathroom fixtures.

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.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/28/mccain-funded-work-of-pal_n_138606.html

Another story (in the corporate MSM) here: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/10/the-khalidi-gam.html

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1. wonder what Palin think of her running mate