– is the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University. Khalidi has strong sympathy and connection with the terrorist organization the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). His identification with the PLO was so intimate that often when referring to the PLO he would say ‘we’. He was the founder of the aniti-Israeli Arab American Action Network in 1995. Obama is said to have spoken against the ‘Israeli occupation’ at a charity event for a West Bank refugee camp in 1999. He is also purported to have had a election fund raising event at the home of Khalidi in 2000, at which he made convincing statements in support of the Palestinian cause.
– was a radical academic at Columbia University who was strongly anti-Israel, and anti-western. He was a former member of the Palestinian National Council, but resigned in protest to the Oslo Accords, holding that Yasser Arafat had been too moderate. He was author of the influential book Orientalism, which sought to discredit all western scholarship on the Middle East. In 1998, Obama attended a fundraiser sponsored by the Arab American Action Network, at which Said was the keynote speaker. He sat with Said at the dinner.
– is a Professor of Religion and African American Studies at Princeton University. West is an avowed Marxist, and is a longtime member of the Democratic Socialists of America. West views America as a nation that has a profound hatred of African American people. Obama chose West to to his presidential campaign’s Black Advisory Council in 2008.
– is a philanthropic organization with an agenda bent on radical environmentalism, “social justice,” prison reform, and increased funding for social services, particularly for minorities. Obama sat on the board from 1998 to 2000. During his time dozens of leftist organizations received funds from the Foundation. $84,000 was given to the Chicago-Kent College of Law to buy articles that argued that the Second Amendment does not protect an individual’s right to bear arms, but rather only a state’s right to arm its militia. Purposefully no opposing views were allowed, in the Law Review periodical. $2.5 million was given to the Violence Policy Center a group that wants Congress a national handgun ban. In 2000, Obama considered becoming president of the Joyce Foundation and leave elected office.
Old King Midas was granted the “Golden Touch” from the god Dionysus. Everything he touched turned to gold. Great for everybody around him, but he soon found himself kind of hungry, cause he hadn’t thought it through.
Well our government has a ‘touch’ of it’s own. Slightly different to King Midas though, it has the reverse, the “Sadim Touch”. Everything it touches turns to…
You get the picture.
If it can run profitably as a business, then government has no business putting it’s hands in it. It will always run poorly and inefficiently.
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