Finally as promised, tonight's Campaign Comment and Rashid Khalidi.

And it is one thing—one stupid, cataclysmic thing—to try to slime your opponent because of his relationship with some guy, only to then find out that your own candidate has a stronger relationship with that guy.

The huffing, puffing, panicky McCain noise machine has really done it this time. John McCain, and William Ayers, both gave money to this man Rashid Khalidi. Sen. McCain, you may want to get a pad and pencil here and write all this down.

I'm actually going to agree with William Kristol, when he wrote in the New York Times, that you should fire your entire campaign staff. In three short steps, while trying to link Sen. Obama to Rashid Khalidi; they have instead linked you to Rashid Khalidi and Bill Ayers.

Watch, Senator —

Step one: get the running mate who thinks she's smarter than everybody else to throw out the first pitch.

PALIN: It seems that there was yet another radical professor from the neighborhood who spent a lot of time with Barack Obama, going back several years. This is important, because this associate, Rashid Khalidi, he, in addition to being a political ally of Barack Obama, he's a former spokesperson for the Palestinian Liberation Organization.

Now Senator, if you're seeing that clip for the first time, take a minute to clean up whatever you were drinking, and whatever you hit with your spit-take. As you remember, Sen. McCain, Rashid Khalidi's also the guy you gave $448,873 dollars to, ten years ago.

When you were Chairman of the International Republican Institute, and Khalidi wanted grant money to spend in the West Bank, for his Center for Palestine Research and Studies.

As you know, Senator, $448,000 goes a lot further than friendship. You gotta tell Gov. Palin stuff like this, Senator. Unless, of course, she already knew, and said it anyway, which means that those stories about how she's stabbin' you in the back are just scratchin' the mavericky surface.

But to continue this long, dismal tide of self-destruction, Senator. That was step one.

Step two: Get the drumbeat rolling with the most over-rated strategist in the history of American politics, Karl Rove, on the echo chamber of choice, Fixed News.

ROVE: What bothers me about this is where was the McCain opposition research when this article came out last April that talked about Obama's presence at the dinner for Khalidi and mentioned in the story the tape. This would be a lot better if this drumbeat had been started last spring.

Senator, put the bottle down.

You may know all-too-well, and I may just be guessing, that Rashid Khalidi had to have come up last spring, but what used to be the cooler heads in your campaign said: ick-snay on the alidi-kay.

Because your campaign had to have known that you mainline directly back to him—and not just the $448,000 grant in 1998 but another series of other grants from your group to Khalidi's group in 1993, you'd know how much those were for; we haven't found out.

Yet. But, the smart folks are all gone now. All you got left are Sarah Palin and Karl Rove and Rudy Giuliani.

Steps one and two having been completed. He was step three. I know! Let's ask Rudy! He'll try anything. Honestly, Senator, I know you like this man, but, frankly, if he's talking about anything west of Hoboken, New Jersey, or anything more complicated than how to speed cross-town traffic, he's lost.

The problem is, when Rudy Giuliani starts talking Rashid Khalidi, not only is Rudy going down, but he's taking you with him...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27461933/

Who cares

Lil' Keefy Olbermann cares, ChaseIt, and as an archangel in the church of Obama, the Obamapostles take his word as gospel. Apparently Keefy saw the latest polls, and he's defecating small rectangular kilned objects of clay. This was supposed to be a coronation, not an election, yet here they're finding that the congregation is seriously questioning the eleventh commandment, "Thy Shall Have Thine Wealth Redistributed". This just was not part of the master plan. Heretics are rushing the altar, and Keefy and the rest of the cultists are doing everything they can to stop the flood, but they're getting nervous that their secret is out.

I, for one, am loving it. It may be too little too late in regard to the election, but at least people's attention has been called to the Messiah's socialism, and that alone may help prevent him enacting some of his more radical leftist policies.

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I love it! When confronted with an equally dubious connection using the same methods to link McCain to Ayers, the response is "who cares." This from the same folks who accuse Obama supporters of blind loyalty, messiah fixation, blah blah. That is the Republican blind spot. See, a bad thing is only bad if a DEMOCRAT does it. When Republicans do it, they sprinkle pixie dust on their bad deeds and make them good and sparkling clean.

Fu_cking hypocrites.

And when Republicans respond to the initial Democrat claim of "who cares" by going off, the claim was they were making something out of nothing. Now when it's a Republican who is allegedly associated with someone not on the up and up, it's suddenly a big deal?

Grab a mirror before throwing the "fu_cking hypocrite" charge there, JB.

You wanna talk hypocrisy? Look at Keefy's article:

1. Olbermann accusing Palin of "thinking she's smarter than everyone else"? Rank, unadulterated hypocrisy coming from ANY radical leftie.

2. Referring to Fox News as "Fixed News" when you're an overrated commentator working for the Obama Knob-Slobbering network formerly known as MSNBC? Rank, unadulterated hypocrisy.

Shall we go on? Perhaps the biggest hypocrisy is considering Keefy Olbermann a legitimate news source while dismissing Ann Coulter as an overly partisan idiot.

If the McCain connection is so solid, why won't the LA Time release the Khalidi video? Is it because it's really a porno with Obama blowing Khalidi while Keefy is yanking Obama? Must be something like that, because if it were politically as damaging to McCain as Keefy seems to imply it is, it would have been released a long, long time ago.

So keep talking the hypocrisy line. Deny and demean, while you're at it. And perhaps you can talk Seth into writing one of his fabled letters to the LA Times to convince them to release that video.

The coronation is falling apart, and the Obamapostles are freaking out. It's going to be a fun last few days.

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Is it time to use the hypocrisy word again? Maybe we could just add it to our signature line to save time?

Go ahead...I'm sure it will save you a lot of typing. Don't forget to say "Amen" at the end.

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Originally posted by Seth Jackson:
Is it time to use the hypocrisy word again? Maybe we could just add it to our signature line to save time?

Absolutely. You've needed to do that for a long, long time.

Don't forget to ask permission from your party masters first, though. Wouldn't want you off the reservation.

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How about this one instead?:

Can you feel the love tonight?
Elton John